[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 168 (Monday, August 31, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46254-46255]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-23473]


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LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION


Sunshine Act Meeting of the Board of Directors

TIME AND DATE: The Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation 
will meet on September 12, 1998. The meeting will begin at 9:00 am and 
continue until conclusion of the Board's agenda.

LOCATION: Holiday Inn Civic Centre, 300 E. Ohio Street, Chicago, IL 
80811.

STATUS OF MEETING: Open, except that a portion of the meeting may be 
closed pursuant to vote of the Board of Directors to hold an executive 
session. At the closed session, the Corporation's General Counsel will 
report to the Board on litigation to which the Corporation is a party, 
and the Board may act on the matters reported. The closing is 
authorized by the relevant provisions of the Government in the Sunshine 
Act [e.g., 5 U.S.C. 552b(c) (10)] and the corresponding provisions of 
the Legal Services Corporation's implementing regulation [e.g., 45 CFR 
Sec. 1622.5(h)]. A copy of the General Counsel's Certification that the 
closing is authorized by law will be available upon request.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

Open Session

1. Approval of agenda.
2. Approval of minutes of the Board's meeting of June 13, 1998.
3. Chairman's and Individual Members' Reports.

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4. President's Report.
5. Scheduled public speakers:
    a. The Honorable Danny Davis, Member of Congress;
    b. The Honorable Mort Zwick, Justice 1st Appellate Court of 
Illinois.
    c. Robert Stein, Executive Director of the American Bar 
Association;
    d. Doreen Dodson, Chair of the American Bar Association's Standing 
Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants;
    e. Judy Billings, Chair of the American Bar Association's Standing 
Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service;
    f. James Wascher, President of the Board of Directors of the Legal 
Assistance Foundation of Chicago; and
    g. Dennis A. Rendleman, General Counsel of the Illinois State Bar
6. Consider and act on the report of the Board's Operations and 
Regulations Committee.
    a. Consider and act on proposed mechanism for setting of the 
compensation level for the Corporation's Inspector General.
    b. Consider and act on proposed revisions to the Procedures 
Governing the Annual Performance Evaluations of the Corporation's 
President and Its Inspector General.
    c. Consider and act on proposed revisions to Corporation's 
Communications Policy.
    d. Consider and act on proposed revisions to Corporation's Policy 
on the Handling of Employee Grievances Filed Against the Corporation's 
President and Its Inspector General.
    e. Consider and act on final rule, 45 CFR Part 1606, on Termination 
and Debarment Procedures; Recompetition.
    f. Consider and act on final rule to rescind 45 CFR Part 1625, the 
Corporation's existing regulation governing Denial of Refunding.
    g. Consider and act on final rule, 45 CFR Part 1623, on Suspension 
Procedures.
7. Consider and act on the report of the Board's Finance Committee.
8. Consider and act on the report of the Board's Committee on Provision 
for the Delivery of Legal Services.
9. Inspector General's Report.
10. Report on the search for someone to fill the position of Vice 
President for Programs and, should the Corporation's President have a 
candidate to recommend to the Board for appointment, action on that 
recommendation.
11. Establish the Board's 1998 Annual Performance Reviews Committee to 
conduct the 1998 annual performance appraisals of the Corporation's 
President and its Inspector General.
12. Schedule the annual meeting.

Closed Session

13. Approval of minutes of the Board's executive session of June 13, 
1998.
14. Briefing 1 by the Inspector General on the activities of 
the OIG.
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    \1\ Any portion of the closed session consisting solely of staff 
briefings does not fall within the Sunshine Act's definition of the 
term ``meeting'' and, therefore, the requirements of the Sunshine 
Act do not apply to any such portion of the closed session. 5 U.S.C. 
552(b)(a)(2) and (b). See also 45 CFR Secs. 1622.2 & 1622.3.
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15. Consider and act on the General Counsel's report on potential and 
pending litigation involving the Corporation.

Open Session

16. Report by the Office of Administration and Human Resources on the 
Corporation's Logo Change.
17. Public comment.
18. Consider and act on other business.

CONTACT PERSON FOR INFORMATION: Victor M. Fortuno, General Counsel and 
Secretary of the Corporation, at (202) 336-8810.
    Special Needs: Upon request, meeting notices will be made available 
in alternate formats to accommodate visual and hearing impairments. 
Disabled individuals who need an accommodation to attend the meeting 
should so notify the Corporation's Office of the General Counsel, at 
(202) 336-8810.

    Dated: August 26, 1998.
Victor M. Fortuno,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 98-23473 Filed 8-27-98; 2:32 pm]
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