2010-09-10 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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recommendations we could come up with that relates to inaudible. I’m not sure. I mean it’s up to the group how we want to do it, but it seems like one day we could have subcommittees explore different areas of cost savings. MS. WONG: That’s on my list right here. Not so much to focus on just energy because I didn’t know what he’d be talking about, but it’s hard for me to take a two week break or one month break and still remember what happened so I have to reread. And I thought, I personally really work much better if I focus in and just keep on going at a project. I would like to suggest if we broke up into two’s and choose topics that we’d like to focus on so we could have that interchange instead of waiting for our next meeting and two weeks before we can talk to each other and sort of come up with an assessment and recommendations on whatever we choose to. It could be the energy thing. I’m probably more interested in the budget and in the operations, and that basis on the core services. But I’d like to go along with Bill’s comment and suggest that we break off into two at a time. What do you think about that or what does everybody else think about that? MS. NICHOLSON: And what kind of categories have you come up with? MR. TAKABA: If you follow the comments that were made, it gives us some idea of what kind of categories. MS. PROVALENKO: What the concerns are. MR. TAKABA: Some are interested in streamlining forms, duplicate forms. Why do we have to fill out all this paper work? This relates to the energy, turning off the lights. One had to do with gasoline, why are we buying super gas instead of regular. Another one was streamlining operations. But maybe it’s something that the group should come up with, a major category. Maybe Patty may be interested in our leases, right? We have a lot of leases out there. MS. PROVALENKO: I was thinking we should wait till we get the letters, the rest of the responses in and see from those responses the areas that really are a concern to the employees as well as to the management, and kind of form those areas. Follow through those areas. MS. WONG: I think the responses are helpful but the employees see their little piece and the department heads see their bigger piece. And perhaps only the executive assistants see, even though if they see the whole piece, so we need to be able to look at, our commission needs to look at the whole piece and then filter down to the smaller pieces. MS. PROVALENKO: But yeah, I agree, but what I’m saying is I think that the responses we get back, because they are in there on a day-to-day basis so they have, like with the paper, the duplicate forms, one was with the police department and having these forms that are printed up and have dates on them, why not do it. So what I’m saying is with these suggestions that come in, I mean I think then we could find out where we need to, what the focuses are with those various departments. Cause I think the employees are really the core group that’s going to come up with some of these 14