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u -3- LJ PROCEDURE FOR CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSALS NOT SUBMITTED BY MONDAY. AUGUST 5. Only members of a policy committee may offer amendments to the National Municipal Policy or resolutions within that committee's jurisdiction during the Policy Committee meeting on Saturday, December 7. Member cities and state leagues are urged to work with their state committee delegation if they are unable to submit their proposal prior to the Monday, August 5, deadline. Your state municipal league can provide names of the elected officials from your state who serve on the relevant policy committees. The state municipal leagues select representatives from their state to serve as members of the policy committees. Each league has a set number of slots on the six policy committees based on the size of the state's municipal population. The Resolutions Committee can consider only policy committee reports, proposals received in NLC's offices by Monday, August 5, and recommendations of individual Resolutions Committee members. ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING Any certified voting delegate of a member city or state league may offer a National Municipal Policy amendment or a resolution for consideration at the Annual Business Meeting. on Tuesday, December 10, 1996. However, any proposals not submitted to the voting delegates by the Resolutions Committee or the Board of Directors must be accompanied by a petition containing the signatures of ten voting delegates, presented to the NLC Policy Office in San Antonio no later than 10 a.m. on December 10. To be accepted for floor consideration at the Annual Business Meeting, such a petition must receive a majority vote of all certified delegates present and voting. All proposals to amend the National Municipal Policy and all resolutions, however submitted, require a 2/3 vote of delegates present and voting for final adoption. GUIDELINES FOR DEVELOPMENT OF POLICY PROPOSALS NLC's Board of Directors established the following guidelines for policy proposals to be considered for adoption at the Congress of Cities: 1. Whether acted upon as amendments to the National Municipal Policy or separate resolutions, policy proposals: shall -- in their subject matter -- concern shared policy and program needs, issues or problems of the nation's municipal governments;