2010-09-10 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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MS. GARSON: No. Just make it clear who is in charge of what. But two is no problem. You can have a committee of less than a quorum and that still wouldn’t be a problem. MS. NICHOLSON: Because we’re not reaching any conclusions, we’re just making recommendations. MS. GARSON: Yes, two is fine without having a noticed meeting, yes. MS. WONG: Based on what you’ve heard us saying over the last 15 minutes or so, do you have any comments or suggestions? MS. GARSON: No. Actually on the communications that were sent to you, one thing that I would like you to do is to forward them to the department that those suggestions kind of had to do with for comment. For example, I don’t know if it was in this batch, but a comment came in from someone who is probably from the police department cause his suggestions all had to do with police functions. I think you should send that to the Police Chief and have him maybe have someone call him back. Or if there is a technology suggestion, at some point you should either invite or maybe send that to Data Systems to see what comment they would have about like, great idea. They haven’t seen these so that would just be my suggestion, at some point maybe before you have them come in or somehow forward those to the department. MS. O’HARA: Just responding to that, I would be a little bit concerned if they came in as an anonymous comment to sending that. The writing might be recognizable. MS. GARSON: Or again a summary. Just somehow, just remember to get input back from the department. MS. O’HARA: A summary would be good. MS. PROVALENKO: I agree with the summary. MS. NICHOLSON: Okay, I’m trying to get my mind on how we would do this. If we divide into groups and you all say I’m interested in delving further in this, I’m interested in delving further in this, that’s one action. But it looks like we’re actually, we want to also be focusing on the big picture, be looking at the comments we’re getting back from the departments, but we’re not necessarily going to be going department to department to department. We’re looking at a more interdisciplinary approach. Is that set? MS. WONG: I think the thing is yet. We may still go to a department MS. NICHOLSON: Because I don’t want to loose sight of our task of maybe looking at programs or activities that the county may be doing that we may want to suggest be eliminated, transferred, or whatever. MS. O’HARA: Modified. 17