2010-09-10 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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MS. NICHOLSON: Ken, you’re the logistics guy, what do you think? MR. ARMOUR: I think everybody should get a copy of everything and we just pull out things for our committee and then maybe do a little check later to make sure we haven’t dropped anything. Go through and say this comment, did you pick it up? Yes. All right. Everybody agrees. It goes in yours. I don’t think we need to spend a lot of time on it. MS. NICHOLSON: We don’t need to decide then. Okay, that work for everybody? MS. WONG: And so, beside the subject is, if we’re going to be getting it in email and I’m assuming everybody has – oh, you don’t have email? MS. O’HARA: I have. But we were sent hard copies. MS. GARSON: You got a hard copy cause it’s compiled as part of the agenda packet. MS. WONG: Let me make my suggestion and if you don’t like it, but as an example of our cost savings, I’d like to suggest, cause I even brought the envelopes and the copies – if we receive the data in emails and then we can pick up the hard copies when we get here, you don’t have to mail as much. And one mailing is $2.75 and the other mailing is $2.24 and there’s the envelopes and there’s a time of putting it together. Just six people that’s small, but it’s an example of how we could save money. You don’t have to send us everything out in a big packet. When we arrive here we can pick up the hard copies. But some things we may want to get ahead of time. But some things that we don’t need to we have it emailed. That doesn’t have to be sent. It saves little money but it’s an example of what we’re trying to accomplish. MS. NICHOLSON: I personally prefer to get it in mail because otherwise I have to print them out. MR. MATSUDA: Maybe you can get the bulk of the information via mail but as things come up you can get something via email. I take it back because of this thing that we have to give notice. Yes, I take back my answer. How would it work on an email situation regarding that area where they need to give notice ahead of time? I don’t know if I’m wording it correctly. MR. ARMOUR: They just couldn’t send emails to us six days or seven days before the meeting with new information. MS. PROVALENKO: But do they have time to get it on the agenda? MS. GARSON: It’s cut off on, basically it’s the seventh day is when we’ve cutting off the communication for a particular agenda. It would just be on the next agenda. MS. PROVALENKO: So, seven days prior to our meeting? MS. GARSON: Yes. MS. NICHOLSON: So, I’m not sure where we are with this discussion here. 26