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- Page 12 Session 868, ~inutes June 19, 1967 Bill No. 6403 (AS .~NDED~ Continued: 11. Section 4 - Strike first 2 lines and enact following: Section 4 "The Commission may make the result". 12. Section 5 - Strike out same and renumber Sections 6, 7 and 8 to Section 5, 6, and 7 and amend title of the bill in accordance with above. City Counselor i~orris suggested to Councilman Lieberman that he doesn't think this should go to Chapter 2 which deals with administration - the portions about enlarging the authority of the lIuman Relations Commission should go eventually into Chapter 2 and the penalty features, the acts prokibited, should go elsewhere in the Code, but he is afraid some problems will result if the two are mixed up. He said he would suggest that Coun- cilman Lieberman forget about splitting up this ordinance at the present time and further suggested that if Councilman Lieberman wants to pass the ordinance he should do so without trying to place it anywhere in the Code and it can be codified later. This was satisfactory to Councilman Lieber- Councilman Epstein asked the City Counselor whether it is necessary to in- sert somewhere that the Commission has the power to receive complaints, whereupon City Counselor i~iorris explained he thinks it is already in the Code as to the authority of the Commission to investigate whenever there is a violation of a City ordinance on a particular point - it is already presently in Chapter 2 of the }~nicipal Code. i,~yor Kaufman asked whether there are any expressions of opinion by mem- bers of the public. Dean Hiram Lesar, Chairman of the Commission on Human Relations, came fom~ard. Dean Lesar stated that the Commission considered this Bill in itm usual fashion - they referred it to a Real Estate Com- mittee - a subcommittee of the Commission, and that committee includes a member from the Metropolitan Real Estate Board. Dean Lesar said that member telephon~dthe Real Estate Board in Detroit to find out their opinion - their experience with this Bill - that is, the law from which this Bill was adapted - it was favorable - and the Real Estate Committee reported favorably to the Commission and the Commission, after discussing the Bill at some length~ adopted a motion to the following effect: The Commission on Human Relations advises the Council that it should pass Bill No. 6403 As Amended and that the Commission would consider its role under the law an active and not a passive one which may very well require .the appropriation of substantial funds. The Commission further advises the Council that the word "shall" in Section 2 (b) should be changed to ~;may' leaving to the Commission the determination of the best use of the time of its personnel. Dean Lesar said there was considerable feeling on the part of the members of the Commission that it could be that it would be found this was not the best use of the personnel of the Commission in enforcing this law if it were passed; while they might very well do this, they would prefer to have