2010-09-10 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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whether that’s an appropriate technique might be after we sort of figured out how we want to go about tackling it. Are there thoughts? MS. WONG: And that’s why I didn’t want it really discussed in this meeting, but I wanted to pose that so that we could think about it in the future because it seems like we had such a discussion at the last meeting about involving the public and we didn’t get to how we’re going to do that. I just wanted to pose that. MS. O’HARA: Just a follow up on both of those things, I think we did discuss the recommendations about being public involved, and I think we wanted to get to the point where we had some graphic invasions before we take that step. The second the unions, and there’s more than one involved here so, I think that could get very complex, the coordination of such a type of meeting. Personally, I don’t know if that’s something we’d want to undertake. It diverts us from our main focus. ITEMS TO BE PLACED ON NEXT AGENDA MS. NICHOLSON: Are we ready to move to item number 9 – Discussion of items for the next agenda. We already have some, but anything else anyone wants to put on the agenda? MS. WONG: I think we’ve got plenty for the next agenda. MS. NICHOLSON: Could we, for our next agenda have something with all meeting dates so that we can look at if there is a holiday, or something we might need to reschedule a meeting, but just have something we could all look at and figure out where we might have some problems like Thanksgiving, Christmas. th MS. O’HARA: I’m not able to make the 24, the next meeting date. MR. TAKABA: Me too. I’m only ex-officio so. MS. NICHOLSON: Hopefully the rest of you will be here. Any other items for the next agenda? So at this point, we have no presentations scheduled, but we will have presentations from each other, our teams talking about where our approach will lead. MR. TAKABA: Are you looking for a presentation? MS. NICHOLSON: Do you have something to suggest? MR. TAKABA: Today we heard from the Green Team. If one of our subcommittees is going to be on technology, maybe we can have our IT person come in. How we can save money. I’m not sure if he has any suggestion. MS. NICHOLSON: I think it might be more appropriate for our technology team to decide and meet directly, but are there other sort of interdisciplinary teams that we might not know about that we want to talk to? I think the Green Team was very helpful but. 32