2011-04-08 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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MR. ARMOUR: Or change it to a more generic statement without a quote on it. MS. NICHOLSON: It’s so nice I really do like it and just starting out… MS. O’HARA: How about anonymous? If you guys want to remove it, just remove it and remove the first sentence and just go from there. MS. NICHOLSON: Okay what’s the pleasure folks leave it in at this point or take it out now? MS. WONG: My feeling is to take it out but we might come up with another quote. I think Eileen could say it. MS. NICHOLSON: Well it would actually be really good if the Mayor would say something that we would want to put there. MS. O’HARA: Well the past reports have had a Mayor’s message on them I believe. MS. NICHOLSON: A mayor’s message? MS. O’HARA: Yeah. MS. NICHOLSON: I’m not sure. MS. O’HARA: No, maybe not. MS. NICHOLSON: Okay let’s take it out and take out the first sentence for now and we’ll listen for a good quote when the Mayor comes to talk to us. Maybe he’ll say something similar. Any other discussion on this draft of agenda item 10? MS. GARSON: Just for clarification so this is the…. The page with the narrative is what goes in the report and the summary of the efforts is something that was going to go with that? Okay, so it’s all one? MS. O’HARA: Mmhmm. MS. NICHOLSON: So wait a minute so now I’m not clear. So the summary goes where? I was thinking that the summary was maybe an appendices item. MS. O’HARA: I thought the summary could go following the part 1 overarching costs and revenue concerns for the County of Hawai‘i to give some graphical representation of how we approached our task, our mandate, because I explained that several times, well not several times but I explained it in this write up in part 1 that the commission decided to tackle its mandate by looking not only at ways to reduce the cost of government but also identifying ways to enhance revenues and that we organized with the three overarching issues, etc. This is all described in this narrative part 1a and this is just a graphic of what I’ve described in the previous page so I just thought it would follow but however you want to do it. Some people like to look at things. Some people like to read things. MS. NICHOLSON: Any comments from other commissioners? I quite frankly would rather see it in the appendices section so that we jump into content earlier on so there’s not a whole lot 27