2010-11-17 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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to the island not understanding the community in which they're moving into, suddenly moving into it and then expecting it to change to their way of life. A lot of our communities are farming communities. We have a lot of people that live in a residential area, but they do a lot of farming, and at night time they'll come in and they'll clean their vegetables in their carport. They've been doing this for 15 years. You get a person that comes into the neighborhood, buys a house, looks across and he doesn't like that. This is not an agricultural lot. This is residential. It's supposed to be quiet at night. And so they file a complaint. And then the complaint is bounced against the code. The code says it's residential, you can't be doing that. But they've been doing it for 15 years. So there's a lot of things that go on in our communities that are not necessarily reflective of what we have in our codes, but we've allowed those to go on because we're not really strong enforcement of our codes. And so things develop in the ohana that's somewhat contrary to our code. So if we have somebody moving in to these unique communities, I think they should understand what they're moving into first, before they start complaining. So that's the one suggestion that I have. There's a cost benefit down the road on that one. The other ones I'll write up, if you're still open to some. CHAIR: We're definitely open to more input. LEONARD: Okay. And also just to let you know, if you need more detailed information on any of these from me, just please don't hesitate to call me or send me an email and let me know. Because one of the questions I was expecting with regards to consolidation of enforcement is that, is that a cost savings or is there an expense to that? And it all depends on how it's set up, of course, because is there a transfer of assets from the existing departments such as vehicles over to the new office that is created? Are you going to have a new division head that runs that, so there's going to be a new layer of management that may be an expense? If you cost that out, I mean, the savings there's going to be a savings realized in years ahead, and if you automate it up front and you streamline the process where you're ticketing people right at the front end, there's a tremendous savings of costs with regards to administration. So I don't know I anticipate some day to get into that discussion. And you're one heck of a typist. CROSSON: I don't have it all. This is rough. LEONARD: Well thank you very much for listening to me. The members thanked Mr. Leonard for his presentation, and he wished them luck on the job ahead of them. Mr. Leonard left the meeting at 11:27 a.m. The Chair called for a five - minute break. The meeting was called back to order at 11:35 a.m. The commissioners discussed Mr. Leonard's presentation and ideas, as follows: 20