2010-09-10 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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MR. ARMOUR: If they have to do a written response then they couldn’t come to the next meeting anyway because don’t you have to have the response in the agenda within seven days before the meeting? MS. GARSON: What needs to be on the agenda can just be a generic one. MS. NICHOLSON: Responses from the departments. MS. GARSON: It depends on what you want to do with it. What it would be on the agenda for is because you want to discuss it so it will be discussion regarding responses from the departments. MS. NICHOLSON: Well, actually if they are going to come in it’s going as communications and then we would discuss how to handle the responses under our under item 7. MS. GARSON: That gives them then only a week until it comes in. MS. NICHOLSON: We’ve got two weeks on the table, we have a month on the table, can we compromise at three weeks? Which will give us still seven days before our meeting. MS. O’HARA: Yes. MS. NICHOLSON: Three weeks. Okay, are we through with agenda item number 8? That’s how we want to handle follow up from the previous report? I just want to make sure we’re not creating busy work for them, but we’re actually going to pay attention to this and can use this as some of our raw data that we’re going to be looking at in our subcommittees. MS. O’HARA: I agree, and that’s why I think it should only be used specifically the 2007 report and those departments that had more than one specific revenue. MS. WONG: Could I just jump back to seven a moment and I drew a big arrow for me to pay attention on my notes and I just passed it by. But just to pose the idea, I was reading the notes from last meeting, to get the public involved, if we had a workshop for input from employees and the public, to get the union involved, ask the union if they would sponsor the workshop to invite the employees to get feedback and the public. Do you think that’s a possible, doable, or something that would be of interest? And the reason that I looked at it this way is I’d like the union to get involved at some point. I don’t really but, I was trying to think, our budget is very limited so if the union, and this will help all the employees, the county employees, maybe the unions might be able to facilitate and sponsor a meeting like that and invite the public. Just to pose that. We don’t have to vote or discuss it. I just wanted to pose that idea and maybe we could discuss on our next meeting. Or if anyone has any thoughts on that. MS. NICHOLSON: It seems to me that we need to sort of get together with our teams between now and our next meeting and strategize how we’re going to tackle this and 31