2010-10-08 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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MS. WONG: Are we done with any further comments on Item 6? MR. ARMOUR: I have one comment and it doesn’t concern our committee but we talked a lot about laser fische. Wouldn’t that be more under technology committee? I know that things overlap but it seems to be more technology.I don’t know how to address it, I’m just making a comment. MS. WONG: I think we’ll find that the committees will overlap in several things. I sort of looked at it as an operational thing. MS. GARSON: So that would be a situation we probably would bring in Data Systems and a user to talk about the system if that’s something that the commission wants to learn more about. MS. O’HARA: Yeah. For instance the delinquency that we discussed with Department of Environmental Management – landfill fees and sewer fees. It’s really into technology too. The technology that the interface that they have at the landfill, and being able to accurately assess and track all these accounts. So that’s a technology issue too. MR. TAKABA: You may even look at the revenue side where you got fees. A lot of departments collect fees. Is it appropriate if it’s compared statewide, is it too high, too low, just right? MS. WONG: We’ve just discussed who we’d like to have from the county, but we’ve talked in the past about inviting the public. And I know that they are invited, but is there a way that we could invite the public more of an outreach to participate whether by email or by mail? Any discussion on that? Do we want to more strongly encourage the public at this time? MR. TAKABA: If you look at the questions that were asked of the departments, like question three, specifically asks them to identify revenue and revenue collections in their departments that they’re applicable. Maybe the committee would want to look at that and if there’s any department that stands out or that makes a good suggestion that you might want to follow up on, we can invite those departments just to talk about fees. So maybe at your meeting after this, you’re going to meet after this? MR. ARMOUR: Yes. MR. TAKABA: You can talk about it. And I know you’re not going to be ready actually select the departments but you may want to discuss that. DISCUSSION REGARDING FUTURE MEETING DATES MS. WONG: Moving on to Item 7, Discussion Regarding Future Meetings. Will nd everyone be here for the 22? Seems like everyone will be here hopefully. So November, two of the meetings are the days after holidays. Do we want to change that? One person is nodding yes so far. 21