2010-09-10 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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MS. GARSON: And I really would prefer that, you have to communicate with each other at a meeting intercommittee so a communication like that, if you each get it, you will have to distinctively know what’s your committee and what’s not somebody else’s. MS. O’HARA: Exactly. I think we need to see all the responses because they are responding to all the questions which includes these three categories. And then the two people will go through each communication pull out the suggestions and discussions relevant to what we’re focusing on. M. NICHOLSON: Why don’t we do it like this. If we all got all those communications and we had our committees A, B, C or 1, 2, 3, and as a regular agenda item we’ll go through and say okay, that’s a 1. And so committee 1 knows it’s their thing. So one communication may have five different things, and they’ll be in different categories. So we’ll just go, okay everybody agree that’s a 1, that’s a 3, that we all agree who we are going to parcel it out to, and we do that publicly. And so that’s an agenda item at every meeting that we go through, quickly go through communications and just agree who it goes to. MS. O’HARA: That sounds like a great idea to me. Maybe we should do an experiment right now with one communication and see if we’re good at doing that. MS. WONG: And my question is why do we have to parcel it out to a committee to a committee or any committee? Why is it not just data for us to look at? MS. PROVALENKO: Well, I think that was Katherine’s concern. Maybe she can explain that to us. MS. WONG: We’re going to get the data anyway at the meeting, so why do we have to parcel it out? MS. NICHOLSON: It seems to me it just sort of gives better insurance that it gets compiled and addressed if we need further information or confirm that that really is the way things work. I would feel more comfortable doing it that way. But how do the rest of you feel? It doesn’t mean that it’s not still data that everybody sees and has and might choose to address. Maybe some things could be two different subcommittees. MS. O’HARA: Often that will happen. MR. MATSUDA: I think it’s just a matter of everybody is going to have the data and if we think part of that data is applicable to your committee, just answer whatever you think feels applicable to you, and if he has the same question and part of that question, the answer is applicable to that committee, it can actually be their, say technology. And we would answer it something with budget wise and so forth. So, we might have three different answers to one question. MS. WONG: And that will come out at the meeting. MR. MATSUDA: Correct. 25