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MR. TAKABA: <br />I think what he meant was like you have maintenance workers cleaning <br />parks. We also have maintenance workers cleaning the County building. And these <br />workers, one group falls under Parks. Another group falls under Public Works. We’re <br />talking about combining the maintenance crew and allowing them, or letting them go to <br />Parks and all County facilities rather than just the parks or just the County building. <br />MS. NICHOLSON: <br />So, if we like that as a suggestion, how do we want to phrase it? <br />Consolidate like functions that are currently spread among various departments? I <br />actually like the idea of giving an example. <br />MR. TAKABA: <br />You can say consolidate the employees with similar positions or <br />something like that. <br />MS. NICHOLSON: <br />We would still need a little bit more. Why? How does that make it <br />more efficient or save cost? <br />MR. TAKABA: <br />Because we don’t have to have as many as this. <br />MS. PROVALENKO: <br />Wouldn’t you create a whole new department though? <br />MR. TAKABA: <br />No. You take an existing department like Public Works. And you have <br />a Building Division, and so they could call it, instead of Building Maintenance, it would <br />be like Facility Maintenance. <br />MS. NICHOLSON: <br />So, suggestions on wording? Consolidate functions such as <br />Facility Maintenance? <br />MR. TAKABA: <br />No. Facility Maintenance was just an example. <br />MS. NICHOLSON: <br />But I kind of like giving an example cause it’s a little bit more <br />concrete. <br />MR. TAKABA: <br />And you have engineers in different departments too. So that’s another <br />group that could be consolidated. You have project managers in different departments <br />that you can consolidate. We tried to do Mass Transit, the mechanics. That didn’t <br />work. That never passed. <br />MS. PROVALENKO: <br />Why don’t we come back to it. <br />MS. NICHOLSON: <br />I’d rather just try to thrash out something now cause we can still <br />come back to it later. How about, Consolidate similar functions such as project <br />managers, engineers, maintenance personnel. But to go back to Patricia, does that <br />commence under one department or consolidate under what? <br />MS. PROVALENKO: <br />Well what Bill was saying, it’s one thing under the janitors but <br />then under the engineers, it wouldn’t be in Building facilities, though. So that would <br />have to be different. <br />MS. NICHOLSON: <br />So, its under the appropriate department? <br />33 <br /> <br />