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Salary Commission <br />July 31, 2024 <br />So, if there's a way that we can leverage, if there's a way we can bring in some expertise on <br />contract to help support some of their efforts but we are not meant to be the end all, be all <br />(inaudible) for the County. We just can't—we're a small team. <br />So, it's about strategically—and then looking at our Climate Action Plan. Again, as our—really <br />our guidelines for how we prioritize and what we work on. <br />MR. NELSON: Just to clarify, you guys consider yourself—you're going to assist for the grant <br />writing—in the grant approval process— <br />MS. MORRISON: Yes. <br />MR. NELSON: —more than anything else, right? <br />MS. MORRISON: Yes. <br />MR. NELSON: You're a resource—if somebody for these guys, you're a resource that's going <br />to help them get their money, right? <br />MS. MORRISON: We're helping get the money but the bigger role that we're playing is that <br />coordination component, right? So, again, just leaning into that heavy-duty vehicles just because <br />it was fresh on our minds. <br />We worked with our State Department of Transportation to bring in professional grant writers. <br />We worked on helping to write that grant with inputs from our Department of Public Works, and <br />Parks and Rec.—so that they weren't trying to write the grant, right. They don't have capacity <br />for that. So, it was more so gathering the data—coordinating that effort. So, that's a very similar <br />role that we see ourselves playing when it comes to any initiative. <br />MR. RIORDAN: Do you see yourself going into other departments and looking at their <br />operations and saying, "You need to change the fact that you have people driving their <br />timesheets in twice a month" to stop the greenhouse gas thing and being able to implement <br />that? <br />MS. MORRISON: That's a great one. And so, there is some progress being made. Our <br />Department of Finance is actually working towards a system to get us away from the printed <br />timesheets. <br />So, when we think about efficiencies of our County offices, that's not really something that our <br />office is taking on. But we have already connected with our County Auditor, which is interesting <br />because that's part of the role that our County Auditor plays, is to look at things that—if we have <br />waste or we have inefficiencies And so, there's things that he's observed when he's done <br />various audits of whether it's facilities or whatever his particular role is. <br />Page 16 <br />