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33 St. & Loc. L. News 1 (2009-2010)

handle is hein.journals/stlolane33 and id is 1 raw text is: III Section of State and Local Government Law LOCAL LAHUW l 7he Section serves as a collegialforum for its members, the profession, and the public to provide leadership and educational resources in urban, state, and local government law andpolicy. A Major Success -ABA House Passes Federal Distributive Funding Policy By Benjamin E. Grith and Patricia E. Salkin new policy to encourage the federal government to make annual appropriations of federal distributive funding to state and local governments passed the House of Delegates in August. This is a major achievement for the Section of State and Local Government Law, which sponsored Recommendation 105. The ABA House of Delegates (HOD) met during the concluding days of the ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago and took action on a number of interesting, timely, and sometimes controversial proposals. Recommendation 105 was brought before the House on Monday morning, August 3, by a working group that included Section Delegates Patty Salkin and Ben Griffith, Oregon Court of Appeals Judge Ellen Rosenblum, Finance Committee Chair Ken Bond, and ABA Young Lawyers Division (ABA YLD) Delegate Danny Van Horn. Following brief debate and presentations by the working group and one opponent, Benjamin E. Griffith is a partner in the Cleveland, Mississippifirm of Griffith & Griftith and a Section Delegate to the ABA House of Delegates. Patricia E. Salkin is the director of the Government Law Center of Albany Law School in Albany, New York, and a Section Delegate to the ABA House of Delegates. also an ABA YLD Delegate, the House of Delegates passed R.105 by a clear and unambiguous voice vote, and our Section's proposal became official ABA policy. The Early Stages of the Recession Our nation was sliding into the depths of what many would come to call the Great Recession. The election of Barack Obama was still several months away, and our Section leader- ship was holding an executive committee meeting at Seyfarth Shaw's offices in Chicago in conjunction with the Annual SOC Leadership Meeting on September 21,2008. Ken Bond, chair of the Section's Finance Committee, had put the final touches on a recommendation regarding federal revenue sharing. In that early draft of what would ultimately be introduced as R. 105, Bond traced the histori- cal development of transfers of funds from the federal gov- continued onpage 14 Chair's Message, page 3 Section News -Proposed Revisions to Section Bylaws, page 2 -Section Membership Best Prescription for Extraordinary Times, page 4 -Environmental and Condemnation Committees, page 4-5 -12th Annual Fordham Awards, page 6 -Getting Involved Opens Doors for Law Students, page 7 - Fall Section Meeting in Austin, Texas, page 8 * S&L Profile: Keith Hirokawa, page 9 Supreme Court Watch: The Two-Edged Sword of Title VII, page 11 Vol. 33, No. 1, Fall 2009

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