2011-04-08 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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MR. ARMOUR: No report. MS. NICHOLSON: Okay, then we have discussion regarding items previously placed. I would like to skip this one for right now because I’m looking at the clock to see what we really need to get through. MS. GARSON: Madam Chair if I could make a suggestion if you can run down to item 9 and go to the outline then at least if you have your outline set we can start looking at the report. MS. NICHOLSON: That’s what I was looking at. Okay, so we are jumping to item number 9. DISCUSSION OF DRAFT OUTLINE OF FINAL COST OF GOVERNMENT COMMISSION REPORT: MS. NICHOLSON: Item 9 is the wonderful draft that Eileen did for us of how we’re going to organize our report. Does everyone have a copy of that in front of them? Any comments? Did you all have a chance to really look at it and think about how we would slot things in here? Is there something missing? I would like to thank you very much for doing this. It’s kind of hard to see until we start to plug things into here how it’s going to work but… MS. O’HARA: I just want to say the appendicesare just kind of dangling. I mean there may be more, there may be less, I don’t know, that was just to have a place to put stuff. MS. WONG: Page 3… MS. O’HARA: Part 3? MS. NICHOLSON: That’s the summary of COG FY 2011 efforts. This is one that you did early on it’s in different font. MS. O’HARA: Are we onto item 10? Because the draft outline is 9 and 10 is the proposed part 1. MS. NICHOLSON : I think because it all came together we’re thinking it’s all one. MS. O’HARA: The outline is just one sheet and so we’re on item 9. So the outline is just the outline. MS. WONG: Okay, it was in the middle so I thought why is this in the middle? That was my question, I don’t get it. MS. O’HARA: Okay. Okay. MS.NICHOLSON: Okay so the sheet we are looking at is one piece of paper here and actually Gloria has already worked on the essential services provided by the county so she’s got an initial draft on that which will be sent out to everyone. So I’m thinking that if the staff is going to go ahead and plug in our recommendations into this format would it be helpful to go ahead and plug in Gloria’s draft at the same time so then we can talk about that at the same time on the agenda as part of then our draft? 22