2010-12-10 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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MS. O’HARA: That was a question that came up for the deputy director. He was unsure of the situation. I can report back that there is a requirement for septic and grease haulers to register with the county. I still think it would be a recommendation to charge a fee for regulating the services. MS. NICHOLSON: As I recall, the discussion was about the fee and he didn’t know what the fee was. So, do we want to fine tune this recommendation and suggest a fee? And if so, I don’t have a clue what that would be. Eileen do you have MS. O’HARA: A dollar amount? I have no idea. MS. NICHOLSON: So, how do we want to word it? MR. MATSUDA: Can we just say charging a fee? MS. NICHOLSON: Actually part of that was an annual fee versus a one time fee, was it not? So it was an annual fee. Do we want to say something about some range or leave it wide open? MS. O’HARA: Commensurate with what other counties are charging. Perhaps we could put it in that type of language. MS. NICHOLSON: Okay. So we have that an annual fee. MS. GARSON: Okay, so what is it that you want to? MS. O’HARA: Recommend the Department of Environmental Management investigate charging a MS. NICHOLSON: Not investigate. Just charge an annual fee. MS. O’HARA: Okay. Department of Environmental Management charge –well number one. Department of Environmental Management regulate septic and grease haulers and collect an annual fee for registration commensurate with fees of other counties in Hawai‘i. MS. NICHOLSON: Okay. On to D, explore annual renewal fee for solid waste haulers and require all haulers to be current on solid waste bills to reduce delinquencies. Any fine tuning to that language? None. E, consolidate enforcement. A lot of fine tuning on that one I think. MS. GARSON: This is from the MS. NICHOLSON: Mr. Leonard’s information. MS. GARSON: Yes, his information. MS. NICHOLSON: And he specifically said what enforcement areas could be consolidated. And can we not just pull that out of the minutes? 35