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Published on: 5/18/2007
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"From time to time, the commissioners that you want to sit on commissions are very active in their lives both in a business point of view and sometimes a family point of view," Trustee Pat Rea said."They might not take the initial request to serve on the commission for fear they can't be there all the time."
Allowing members to attend meetings via conference call "gives us some degree of encouragement for some of those people" and will be "very helpful to keep an active business person on a commission if they know they can participate in that way," Rea said.
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Rea, who travels out of town frequently for business reasons, said he can foresee attending meetings via conference call once or twice a year.Participating in meetings, even if by phone, is important, he said.