2011-01-28 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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MR. MATSUDA: It’s better to get it out there then nothing at all. MS. NICHOLSON: I mean, we may get a response,using A again as an example, we may get a response from the Arborist committee, but not from the Ag committee. And so until we get a response from both of them, it seems to me it’s a little presumptuous to be making a recommendation about those unless we have feedback from someone either a department or the committee itself. So, I guess I’m saying, it’s fine to put iton the agenda but we almost have to provide a way for them to respond in writing if they don’t want to appear in person. These are all volunteer committees and they might not be able to send someone from Kohala down to testify. MR. MATSUDA: So, in that light, we take into consideration those people who do respond and who do meet the criteria that we’re looking at. Because not everybody is going to be able to respond on time, but some of them may be so we can maybe take it a portion at a time per se, because the other committees didn’t meet or commissions didn’t meet yet. But those that did, maybe we can work on that and go from there. Because if everybody submits it all at one time then we’re talking about a big job. Maybe it’s better being that way because as the responses come in then we can tackle them one at a time. MS. NICHOLSON: I would expect the strongest responses would be from ones who object to being combined or eliminated. MR. MATSUDA: Yes, very much so. MS. NICHOLSON: Gloria, give us some guidance here on how we can best proceed to get the kind of feedback you feel we need for inaudible this item. MS. WONG: I think we just go ahead with the summary and ask and see what response and we can adjust as needed. And if we get no response, that will be also an answer for us to find another avenue. MS. GARSON: Okay. So this letter to the chair people of those boards and commissions, you want a letter to go out as soon as you give me the report so we can th tell them what may be discussed? I mean, you want the letter to go out before the 11? MS. NICHOLSON: So if you can get it done, otherwise it would roll to the next commission meeting. MS. GARSON: So, it’s to the chair and to whatever department may be connected to it th saying that this is what will be discussed at the meeting on the 11or possibly at following meetings. MS. NICHOLSON: And don’t you want to invite them to either appear to provide a written response or not? MS. WONG: Yes. I know that this would be extraordinary to ask them to come here to speak because we have so many of them. But I’m good with getting a written response of some sort, but either way will be wonderful if they would respond. 8