2010-10-22 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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MS. NICHOLSON: All in favor? ACTION ON MOTION: All: Aye. MS. NICHOLSON: Any opposed? None MS. MECKLENBURG: I’m sorry, point of clarification. Is the subcommittee report on this communications? MS. NICHOLSON: The subcommittee reports is item 7. MS. MECKLENBURG: Does it involve the communications? MS. NICHOLSON: It often does because the responses were all in response to letters we sent out about what we’re trying to accomplish and it specifically addressed items A, B, C under 7. MS. WONG: At the last commission meeting, we had to go one by one. MS. NICHOLSON: I know, but the one before we took them all. MS. MECKLENBURG: Okay, I just want to clarify. I haven’t got inducted to these communications but anything that falls outside of those specific sub items under the subcommittee needs to actually be discussed under the correspondence rather than that. MS. NICHOLSON: I do believe every one of these was in response to our inquiries. MS. MECKLENBURG: Okay. MS. NICHOLSON: I don’t thing there’s anything we would need to separate. Eileen you have something? MS. O’HARA: I just wanted to say that most of these later communications A through L, if not all of them are following up on the past recommendations that the previous Cost of Government Commission made. We asked those departments who had received recommendations from the Cost of Government Commission in 2007 what the status of the recommendations were, had they been implemented, what were the problems in implementing them. And so most of these A through L communications are referencing that communications sent out and the status of their implementation efforts on the recommendations made by the previous commission. As such it’s kind of a different animal in and of itself then just a initial questionnaire and surveys that we sent out. So, maybe it’s something that we want to look at separately just to analyze whether the recommendations from the previous commission were useful, were they undertaken, and if not, why not. That was kind of the purpose. MS. NICHOLSON: What we might want to do is because we don’t have all those responses back yet, is put that as a future agenda item, is to group together all those 28