2010-12-10 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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MS. O’HARA: Yes. MS. NICHOLSON: A Pay cut. That would be . Increase the gasoline tax, but not the E real property tax. That’s an . Okay that’s the easy part. Now, what do we want to do with all of our A’s, which are all personnel related? It kind of goes along, it actually kind of blends into the agenda item, how we’re going to proceed. Because it seems to me we probably ought to pull out the personnel related items, some of which are redundant and could be exactly the same person who made the comment that we got from our employee solicitations and perhaps there’s even some from the department heads. If we’re going to be looking at personnel issues we should do it all in a bundle. How would you like to do it? As a group? I don’t think we need another subcommittee. MR. ARMOUR: Well we have this suggestion. We have 144 other documents and there’s a lot of same type of suggestions in there. So if you’re going to do something with these, we should include them all together. MS. NICHOLSON: Right because ultimately what we want to do is look at all of those suggestions, decide which ones might be viable. Put it in our draft. Send it to HR, or the Police Department, Fire Department, whichever one it’s relevant to, and get their comments back on those suggestions. So, I think we’re going to do it as a group. And then the question is how do we get all of those A category things from everything we’ve gotten so far including this, together in one cohesive whole, that we can go, okay that’s the same as that, that’s the same as that, that doesn’t make any sense. How would you like to go about it? Do you guys have any suggestions? Seems like we need to go through all of those suggestions that we got from the employees again and from the departments again. Should we talk about this now or is it, or is it how we’re how we’re moving forward? MS. GARSON: You still want to inaudible suggestions. MS. NICHOLSON: Well it’s generated from this, but it’s really how we’re dealing with all suggestions. MS. O’HARA: I think it would behoove us to look collectively at all A’s and all related comments that we’ve received previously, and formulate that into a couple of paragraphs that describe all the issues that are presented because there are so much commonality between these comments. MS. GARSON: You really could start again like how you have done. Say using a goal, the draft. At the top of my head, there have been at least in here, two or three on four 10-hour work days. And that was something that went into the draft report, it inaudible going to the four 10-hour work day. As you’re going through these, then you could say we already put it in there. MS. NICHOLSON: Okay. How about, I’m willing to go through all of that stuff again. And I’m not willing to retype all of this stuff again, but to just sort of summarize the suggestions and then we can talk about all of those various personnel things. So I will 31