2021-07-15 DRAFT Joint Hearing Exh B

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mean we are much safer having our records electronically backed up, then we are asking them to keep volumes of things. Anyway, that's my comment. REPLOGLE: Thank you. Any other comments? Mr. Raffipiy? RAFFIPIY: Thank you Mr. Chairman. I'd like to echo Ms. DeFranco's comment. If you look at the pros and the cons where we are at right now and what we can do to move forward. The backlog for the permits is just horrendous and I heard more out there in the community each not getting the permits on time and have to wait months and months. I suppose the things that we can change, little things like rules perhaps may not be the best rule that we have at this time, but I think as we move forward, we can continue to improve the rules as we progress through this new system. But just to automate things as to relieve the backlog that is there and to serve the community at large, the projects that are impacted, the lives that are impacted because of the backlog that we have in our county system the permit approval. I think I would have to vote to approve these amendments simply to just help out not only the county but also help out the community members whose projects have been hampered by the manual process that we have. Thank you. REPLOGLE: Thank you Mr. Raffipiy, anybody else? Ms. Galimba? GALIMBA: Alright, yes, I think that Commissioner Clarkson's points are very well taken, however, one of them being that we need to be sure that there is reasonable access for people who are less electronic media savvy. So that, through follow through on the department is really important. That it be ongoing, into perpetuity that we have that capacity to help people get their applications into an electronic format and a second point that it is unclear when it will not be acceptable, it should never be not acceptable to communicate in paper, really. It's just a matter of how we help people to get it from paper into electronic format and to the third point, which I think is implicit in what Commissioner Clarkson is talking about is sort of becoming as an administration too dependent on electronic media. Such that, if the internet goes out, we're all completely hopeless and we can't function at all. So, I think that risk and that sort of what they call Enterprise Risk nowadays is a serious issue and we need "- - -". The County and the Planning Department should have plans in place to deal with that kind of eventuality. With that being said, I also see that benefit of having electronic applications being the dominant mode and not having to put everything into 20 copies with one electronic copy is a lot more efficient than 20. Physical copes having done that myself, so I think Commissioner Clarkson's points are very valid and should be taken into consideration. That being said, I will vote to move forward but, I don't think we should sweep those points under the rug in any way, shape, or form. Thanks. REPLOGLE: Mr. Lin? LIN: My concern would just be if the County has been discussing with all the different vendors, or the locations, that you will be sending people to make scans. What they expect right, because if there is a line at Office Depot to make a scan of blueprints or that kind of documents and every place else has a cue to do the same. How does that effect how we are going to be running the 16 EXHIBIT B (DRAFT)