Program Will Provide Features
For All Municipal Officials

League's Annual Conference

SPRINGFIELD, NOVEMBER 9th, 10th, 11th, 1958 HEADQUARTERS: HOTEL LELAND

WHEN LEAGUE PRESIDENT Virgil Lafferty of Champaign gavels the League Conference into action on Sunday afternoon, November 9th, he will activate an agenda of programs that will be informative, interesting and helpful to all Illinois city and village officials.

The Sunday afternoon session will be a panel presentation of an analysis of municipal problems. This analysis is based on actual problems, taken from statements of the officials to the Illinois Municipal Problems' Commission in hearings held in Centralia, Urbana, Peoria, Rocktord, Broadview and Chicago during the past year. Members of the panel will include Governor William G. Stratton, Dr. Gilbert Steiner, Bert Johnson, Louis Ancel, Albert Tuxhorn, Mark Keane, John Noel, Benjamin T. Schleicher and Clarence Sablotny.

Monday's program will include meetings for Mayors, Village Presidents, Managers, Aldermen, Trustees, Commissioners and Councilmen; sessions for attorneys; engineers and commissioners of public works; clerks and finance officers and traffic enforcement officials.

On Monday afternoon, there will be the popular discussion tables, where small groups of officials may discuss their problems with men who know the answers.

Tuesday morning will feature reports of importance to municipal government, followed by a short business session.

Entertainment features of the Conference will be the President's Reception on Sunday evening; a party on Monday evening at the Lake Club, featuring music, entertainment and a midnight snack.

The Conference will close with the Annual Luncheon on Tuesday noon.

RESERVATIONS:

Room reservations for the Conference must be made through the Convention Bureau of the Springfield Association of Commerce and Industry. Reservation cards were mailed to your municipal clerk on September 8th.

A number of additional rooms are available this year. The Governor Hotel (formerly the Empire Hotel)" has been rebuilt and refurnished at a cost of almost $900,000. Several small suites are available. The Governor is next door to the St. Nicholas Hotel where the meetings of attorneys; engineers and commissioners of public works; and municipal clerks and finance officers will be held. The new Howard Johnson Motel, six blocks south of the Leland Hotel, will also be completed and available for Conference delegates.

For the convenience of Conference visitors, shuttle bus service will be provided at regularly scheduled intervals between downtown hotels and near-in motels. Your Conference badge will be your ticket.

RESOLUTIONS:

A new policy, inaugurated in 1957, concerning: the introduction of Resolutions, will be in effect this year. In past years, the streamlined Conference Program did not permit enough time for the screening and consideration of resolutions concerning legislation and policy.

The Executive Committee of the League' last year adopted rules which provide all delegates, with

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resolutions to present to the Conference, must submit copies to the Illinois Municipal League Office, 537 South Fourth Street, Springfield, Illinois, twenty-one (21) days before the opening date of the Conference, so that copies can be mimeographed and sent to Resolutions' Committee members prior to the first meeting of that Committee. This means resolutions must be submitted on or before October 10th, 1958.

The Resolutions' Committee will meet in pre-Conference session on Saturday afternoon, November 8th, at two o'clock p.m., in the Hotel Leland, Springfield, for the consideration of the resolutions submitted. The delegate of any member municipality may appear at this time and receive a hearing, either on behalf of or in opposition to resolutions which have been properly submitted.

The Resolutions' Committee may, by majority vote, consider resolutions presented at its pre-Con-ference session, provided twenty-five (25) copies of the resolution are furnished.

Resolutions concerning policy or legislation cannot be presented from the floor of the Conference without the approval of at least three-fourths of the voting delegates, and must be approved by three-fourths of the voting delegates.

The Resolutions' Committee may, by majority vote, initiate resolutions on its own behalf at the pre-Conference meeting.

While the Conference opens officially on Sunday, November 9th, many officials are planning to arrive on Saturday, November 8th.

The Resolutions' and Nominations Committees will meet on Saturday afternoon. No other formal Conference activities are planned for that day.

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