2011-04-08 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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MS. WONG: Let me just pass this to you so you can see what I’m talking about and it’s in the blue, second and third page is blue is Hawai‘i County service categories so it would be different than this. MS. NICHOLSON: The past two reports have done it by departments, that’s the way the groups worked and we chose to work it a little different way but in terms of it being accessible information for the readers which are basically the departments and the county council I think they’re going to find it easier to look at it by departments rather than as a service even though we didn’t really tackle our task in that way. I’m trying to think of how this is going to be used and if somebody can go to a department and see that that’s a department consideration it’s going to be easier to use. MS. WONG: That’s right. MS. GARSON: And next month when we can discuss the way she organized her essential services then you can see if it makes better sense to organize it that way. Because that will be on as a discussion item for next month. MS. WONG: For next time yeah I see where you’re going with this and I think this has merit. A little bit of refinement and I think you will be able to incorporate that. MS. NICHOLSON: Okay again Eileen, thank you for putting all that time and thought and your wonderful way of expressing yourself, ourselves on our behalf. Okay, let’s see where we want to go on our agenda next. Do we want to defer or would you like to go ahead and do a discussion on impact fees and fair share? We don’t have any additional information to really talk about it we were just going to carry it forward. I’m not sure what we would talk about. DISCUSSION ON IMPACT FEES AND FAIR SHARE: MS. O’HARA: It’s on the agenda now and we do have a pending bill at council. Can you give us the status on this? MR. TAKABA: I think they deferred it. Councilman Hoffman wanted to do some more work on it. MS. O’HARA: Okay. MS. GARSON: So we’ll just move this item forward and we’ll just keep deferring it until our next meeting and Ms. Leithead-Todd is coming next month so you can ask her about it too. MS. O’HARA: Yeah, sounds good. MS. GARSON: So item 11 is deferred. ITEMS TO BE PLACED ON NEXT AGENDA: MS. NICHOLSON: Okay so before because I’m looking at the clock sorry folks but do we want to talk about items to be placed on the next agenda before we actually start talking about our…. We were each going to go through the drafts recommendations that we got electronically and do a little fine tuning of them. What do we have right now for our next agenda? Well the 29