2010-10-08 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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MS. O’HARA: It’s tentatively scheduled for December 10. So, question for Kathy – for us to discuss the subcommittee reports, they have to be provided at the meeting before the action taken? MS. GARSON: Yes. MS. O’HARA: So that means we wouldn’t be able to take action till January according to our schedule. MS. GARSON: Right. MS. O’HARA: That’s a little tight. Maybe we should up it to the first week in November, the first meeting in November. November 12? MR. MATSUDA: But because you haven’t met yet, would it be problem? MS. O’HARA: We’re just going to have to work hard in the next month. MS. PROVALENKO: You’ve got the departments that you want to look to. I think that’s pushing it a little soon. MS. O’HARA: Cause if we don’t make decisions on these recommendations from the subcommittees till January, and then decide who we want to bring in for the full commission meetings, well I guess we can do that. We’re good until June? We have to have our report by June. MS. GARSON: The committees were established to make things easier so you could meet on your own outside of a meeting but don’t forget that an option is just to have them come to the meeting and do your discussion. And that’s not a problem because the person is here, you’ve agendized that they’re coming here to discuss it. You can have your open discussion right then and there. You do not have to wait. MS. WONG: But you know when you meet separately and the minutes are not being taken and it’s not been taken verbatim, there’s more flexibility for people to respond. MS. GARSON: Yeah. I mean it’s just a suggestion on how the timing works for you. MS. O’HARA: Well also like Gloria’s committee has already provided a report that we can take action on at the next meeting so if we decide for instance to invite Scott Leonard, that could occur sooner rather than waiting till January. So as the committees take action and provide reports on their actions we can take action on that. MS. GARSON: Right. And with the report, it mentions items that might be appropriate to have Data come to that meeting cause there were two issues – the laser fische issue and the video conferencing issue, which I assume would be also related to Data. MS. O’HARA: It is. 10