2011-01-28 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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MS. PROVALENKO: You get engineers in three or four departments. MR. MATSUDA: Why don’t we just say, from different departments, cause we’re not being specific to any one department at this point. MS. NICHOLSON: Okay. So we’ll just leave from different departments. MS. PROVALENKO: Yeah. I think the logistics would come about if it was actually going to take place. MS. NICHOLSON: Okay. MS. WONG: Is there not a better word rather than different? All the departments or MS. NICHOLSON: Various departments. Various is probably better than different. On to MS. GARSON: Actually, if you go back to number 10, the mandated jobs. Shanell found it on page 8 of the minutes. And he says, “try to identify all those jobs and task that are mandated by state and federal government as well as those by our own Charter. And if itdoesn’t fall within one of those mandates, I have a very, very strong motive to see whether it’s possible that we shouldn’t eliminate it.” MS. NICHOLSON: Actually I kind of like that. It makes more sense now. What page is that? MS. GARSON: Page 8. The top of page 8. MS. NICHOLSON: So we could say, Try to identify all those jobs and tasks that are mandated by State and Federal governments as well as in the CountyCharter and consider eliminating positions that don’t fall within those mandates. How’s that for this version of this draft? And then we’ll see if it makes sense next time we look at these. MS. GARSON: One more thing. E -the Staffing/Consolidations, you did not give a summary. You didn’t turn itinto a suggestion or recommendation. MS. NICHOLSON: Ken? MR. ARMOUR: You did well on the last one? MS. NICHOLSON: I can’t remember what we did for the last one. MS. GARSON: You had suggest Countyexamine their policies on travel and vehicle use. The one before that was suggest a review of the reimbursement and per diem policies. MS. NICHOLSON: How about something about –Review current staffing and explore opportunities for staff consolidation. 34