I'm trying to understand. I have some problem with the wording. I'll tell you why.
First, I don't have a problem with the 48 hours being deemed to start when the clerk's office receives it, because that's what it's been traditionally. They receive it and then they send it out. In any other business that's normally how it works when something is received and there is a time.
The other thing is that the wording is a bit generic, in that I don't know whether this necessarily means when the clerk, as she said, distributes it electronically or distributes it to the committee here. It just says when it has been “distributed to the members of the committee”, but in what form? I don't know if we want to be clear on that. I have some problems.
The other thing, Madam Chair, is that I don't want to delay things. My concern is that we tend to find ways to make life hard for ourselves and delay processes. If a motion has been received by the clerk at 3:20 on a Monday afternoon, and it's noted, that to me is deemed to have been received, and the 48 hours will start at 3:20 on a Monday afternoon. Presumably the clerk, as soon as she can--within the next few hours or so--will send it out to everybody, but the timing starts. I don't understand the need for it to be distributed--and then, of course, the wording of distribution to me isn't clear, so I have some serious problems with it.
I don't understand why we need to delay things and make work harder for ourselves.