2011-01-28 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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MS. NICHOLSON: Cause to me the priority would be something along the lines of reduce employee benefits, and then the specific things that we have that we’re putting forth to accomplish this goal would be these things. MS. WONG: And how many pages of these things are we going to submit? MS. NICHOLSON: I have no idea. MS. WONG: And that’s why my comment is it’s just too many. MS. NICHOLSON: I agree, it’s a lot. But there are really ways to accomplish that one goal, so we would be coming up with some specific goals.Like adding a position for a grant writer to secure more funds might be a goal. And then perhaps we have something over here that would be potential ways to achieve that goal. MS. WONG: We could, but more effort. MS. NICHOLSON: It’s going to be a lot of effort. We have work ahead of us. How about other feelings about presentation so that we’re not just handing a laundry list essentially,which is kind of cumbersome. MS. WONG: I was looking through last meeting’s minutes to Mr. Hoffmann’s response, although realizing that this goes to the council, the Cost of Government Commission, he didn’t really have much information about the previous, he wasn’t really aware about the previous commissions. And when posed on questions, my specific questions, he commented that he never really thought about it. So that sort of tells me that other departments were not aware.If we now give them a whole lot of paper, I don’t know how they’re going to respond to that. That was why I was sort of excited at the last meeting to think that we might be able to, when we’re finished with whatever our final is, to ask them to come here to actually tell them what our final recommendations were, so they can’t say next year, not aware. MS. NICHOLSON: That’s department heads you’re talking about? MS. WONG: Yes. And possibly council since now I know that’s where it actually is addressed. MS. NICHOLSON: Isn’t it correct that our audience really is the CountyCouncil and the mayor? MS. GARSON: Yes. MS. WONG: Although that’s a real audience, the department heads and the employees would be the ones implementing it. MS. NICHOLSON: Any other feelings about presentation? I don’t know that it’s going to get a whole lot, it’s obviously going to expand from what we have now. But I don’t know that it’s going to like double the number pages from what we have now until we start explaining or justifying some of our recommendations. I really want to think about 19