2011-04-27 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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knew they had to do a window in which they had to produce a report to me, on what actions I have to take, maybe it edto get ready for the General Plan and the zoning and other stuff. And then the next round when you appoint a steering committee, and then here’s the other thing, why should I have a steering committee and then an action committee? If you’re going to appoint a steering committee to create the CDP, maybe those guys should be the action committee because what I’m finding now, I go to the council meeting and one of the council members adopt a recommendation that came from the action committee. And the council member wants to haul in all the guys that were on the steering committee because she wants to know if the steering committee’s vision is different than the action committees. And I kind of like, steering committee doesn’t exist as an entity anymore. And so at least the council members seem to think that there was a disconnect between the people who would help create the plan and the people who that were doing the implementation. And so maybe, and that would save us having to go through the vetting process and the reappointment process, and all of that, and then we’d have some continuity between the people who helped create the CDP and the people who come up with the action for it. MS. WONG: So that is to say to terminate the action committee MS. LEITHEAD-TODD: But have the steering committee continue and have them serve for a period to create to plan and then X number of years pass adoption in order to implement. MS. O’HARA: It’s like a four year commitment or something. MS. LEITHEAD-TODD: Yeah. Four or five years. MS. O’HARA: A year and a half to two years to do the plan. MS. WONG: Any other comments, questions, specifically on this topic? None. Looking at our time, are you 12:30? MS. PROVALENKO: I can be here till one. MS. O’HARA: I remember why we put together these two odd things, impact fees and pay as you throw. And it relates to a conversation that I had with Bobby Jean earlier. And that was when we were talking in your office about putting a specific element into the real property tax bill to cover all infrastructure islandwide and could we not do something similar for the solid waste issue. Or would you rather consider pay as you throw. MS. LEITHEAD-TODD: The pay as you throw, the argument against pay as you throw has always been that if you institute a pay as you throw, people will just dump everywhere. MS. O’HARA: They already do. MS. LEITHEAD-TODD: And then also the issue of collection of pay as you throw, so one idea has been that you pre-sell bags. And you can only dump in the presold bags. 29