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III. Operations A. Chair.The Forum will have a two-year rotating Chair and a Vice-Chair. The Chair shall set meetings, send meeting notices and agendas, solicit agenda items, produce any meeting summaries, manage the budget, provide fiscal administration coordination with Tacoma, appoint topic-focused committee chairs, represent the Forum in public forums or delegate a representative and serving as Chair of the Steering Committee. The Vice- Chair serves as Chair if the Chair is unavailable. Members of the Steering Committee will nominate the Chair and Vice-Chair from the representatives of the members in Section I.A. Forum members listed in Section I.A. and I.0 will vote on the Chair and Vice-Chair selection. B. Committees. i. Steering Committee. The Steering Committee develops the annual work plan and budget, determines the annual dues, and responds to other requests identified by the Chair. The Steering Committee is comprised of the representatives of the Forum members in Section 1.A. ii. Topic-focused committees. The Forum will form topic-focused committees as needed to implement the annual work plan and budget. Any Forum member in Section I.A.-C. may serve on or chair a topic-focused committee. Chairs will be appointed by the Forum Chair. Staff of Forum members may also serve on committees as needed. C. Annual work plan, budget, and dues i. Work plan and budget. Before the beginning of the next calendar year, the Steering Committee will propose an annual work plan and budget with the total amount of dues to be collected. All voting members will vote on the work plan and budget. The work plan and budget may be amended during the year if approved by a vote of the Forum. ii. Dues. Dues will be collected to pay for the work plan and budget. If the year-end balance exceeds $200,000, the Steering Committee has the discretion to waive dues for the upcoming year as part of the annual work plan and budget process. 5