2011-04-08 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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MS. WONG: I know we’re still only looking at the outline but in my portion I put what the Charter asks the commission to do so that it sort of flows through that’s what we’re doing. I like the way that you introduced how we went about getting our recommendations. MS. O’HARA: Do you want a different title on 1b in the outline? MS. WONG: No, I labeled mine what you said. MS. O’HARA: Okay. MS. WONG: But I just wasn’t sure whether the intent was to put our charter in there. MS. NICHOLSON: Maybe that should be in the appendices. I think it’s probably useful to have it but I would think that the charter might be in the appendices because it’s not something that most people would want to read unless they really want to know what we are doing. MR. TAKABA: Usually there’s a report format that’s commonly used and it has like a beginning where you talk about the legal basis for what you’re doing. If somebody picks it up at least they will know up front what this is all about, who the members of the commission were. MS. O’HARA: I think that’s our preface. MS. NICHOLSON: Yeah Ithink we have that. MS. O’HARA: In the preface. MR. TAKABA: Oh that’s where. Preface and acknowledgments. MS. O’HARA: Preface and acknowledgments yeah. MS. NICHOLSON: Well let’s plug things into this format and see what it looks like. MR. TAKABA: Previous reports, you can follow the same… I don’t know if the previous reports had a…. MS. GARSON: It was like an introduction but a preface and acknowledgment is fine. MS. O’HARA: Actually I looked and they didn’t have executive summaries or anything. So I just kind of went by some of that and we want it to be a little different. MS. GARSON: Not the way we’ve always done things right. MS. O’HARA: Yeah, right, we want it to be a little different. MS. NICHOLSON: Okay any other discussion on item number 9? If not, let’s move to item number 10. 25