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Vice Chair Gaffney mentionedand becausethe <br />legislation must be similar to laws passed in other states, the body that is going to make the <br />final decision is the Legislature, not the Council. He was not sure there is value in reaching out <br />to the Council now other than to say that we would like you to be aware of this program, and <br />we can get this presented to you at a Council meeting. But what needs to happen is we need to <br />sociation of Counties, and they reach out to the legislators. We <br />had enough interest that Rep. Lowen and Sen. Gabbard attended these things, so they are the <br />obvious people to contact. They work together very closely – Sen. Gabbard can introducea bill <br />in the Senate and Rep. Lowen can introduce it in the House – they have done this collectively in <br />this last session. That is the way to do it, rather than directly into the Council, because that is <br />going to take another year. If HSAC agrees to move it as legislation, that would ensure that it <br />would be heard next session. <br />Mr. Hayducsko said that is an excellent point. The reason for moving that way is that staff <br />would have the authority to take it to the Legislature. That was our reasoning. And all the staff <br />on each county would also have that authority to speak for the county in moving this forward. <br />But having HSAC on board is excellent, and the place that we would want to go to, and make <br />them aware of it, and move forward. Having staff move forward with it is the reason we were <br />looking at the Council, he said. <br />Vice Chair Gaffney asked whether there has been previous outreach to the Council on having <br />staff talk to the Legislature. <br />Mr. Hayducsko said he was not aware. <br /> <br />Vice Chair Gaffney said if we want to ask the Council to enable staff to continue this process <br />toward the Legislature, that is what our letter to the Council needs to ask. The other way, he <br />carry this for us. <br /> <br />Deputy Corporation Counsel Diana Mellon-Lacey said it would seem to be something that <br />Director Mansour would discuss with the Mayor first, and then go from there. <br /> <br />Ms. Berrig noted that the Director had alreadysent a memo to the Mayor’s office and received <br />approval to explore this further. <br /> <br />Mr. Hayducsko said the Department asked for permission to reach out to the Council and to <br />legislators for the PowerPoint presentation. We took the lead on that statewide, and we <br />wanted approval from the Mayor to do that. We didn’t want to take that action without the <br />12 <br /> <br /> <br />