2010-12-10 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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MS. NICHOLSON: Inventory controls, purchasing. We certainly had some conversations about purchasing. Is there a way this fits in with our other conversations from prior meetings that we want to retain this? Do we feel there are not inventory controls already in place? Is it an issue we want to address for this committee? MS. O’HARA: It’s a cost containment issue. MS. NICHOLSON: So does that fit into a subcommittee? MS. O’HARA: Yes. Operations. MS. NICHOLSON: Operations subcommittee. MS. O’HARA: D So should we put a beside this? This seems to be a new topic. MS. NICHOLSON: Okay. And do we want to direct the operations subcommittee to just add it to their list of things? Operations subcommittee, what do you thing about it? Does it fit in your committee? Isn’t that Glen and Gloria? Can we just delegate it to your subcommittee to look at and decide what to do with it? MR. MATSUDA: Yes. MS. NICHOLSON: Okay. We’re at the bottom of page 2, how man hours are allocated. MR. ARMOUR: A It would be wouldn’t it? MS. NICHOLSON: A It’s an . Helicopters. MR. ARMOUR: Delete. MS. NICHOLSON: The next one is also about helicopters. Delete? MS. O’HARA: I guess. I, quite honestly am not that familiar with our helicopter inventory and all of that too, to make comment. MS. NICHOLSON: The next one seems like it’s definitely an A. Maybe not. We’ve had several on the bus here. Should we make that a new category? MR. ARMOUR: E . MS. O’HARA: And that seems to go with the revenue enhancement subcommittee. MS. NICHOLSON: Should we pass that to Revenue Enhancement? Ken? MR. ARMOUR: All right. MS. NICHOLSON: Which means we’re not going to discuss it further now cause you’re going to consider it. Allowing DWS and DEM to temporarily alter their fee structures. 17