2010-10-08 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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MR. TAKABA: Yeah, so there may be some on this list that actually submitted. Because I don’t want to bug them if they did. MS. CARVALHO: Yeah. MS. GARSON: So what we can do is we’ll communicate with you after this meeting and let you know who we haven’t received responses from. MR. TAKABA: And you know, Immigration, maybe you should scratch that because it comes under the Mayor’s Office and so when we did the report for the Mayor’s Office, we brought them in to our response. MS. GARSON: Okay. MS. O’HARA: I have a question too about responses when we send out the second request for information to those who had received Cost of Government Commission recommendations last time, are we logging how much response, that went out to what about, was it seven or eleven? MR. TAKABA: Yeah, quite a few. MS. CARVALHO: Eight. MS. O’HARA: Eight departments, and I know we’ve gotten one back from Department of Environmental Management. Have we gotten another response? MS. CARVALHO: One from Water and there’s going to be some on the next agenda. So, I can keep a log of who responded. MS. O’HARA: Yeah, those are kind of important pieces of information that would be helpful. MS. WONG: The letter that is going out to Mr. Yagong, if he wants to come and make a statement to the commission, can he just request that? Instead of providing a written response, can he just request to speak at the meeting? MS. GARSON: He could just come. Do you want the letter to say provide us or attend? MS. WONG: Does anyone want to suggest that he attend? My feeling is that sometimes when you get a whole lot of data and you have to put it into summary, you miss some of the flavor of the responses. And I don’t know how much of data he received but it seems to have been remembered. MR. TAKABA: I think at a minimum we should at least get the results or copies of whatever he received. MS. WONG: A letter has been 12