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MS. POMEROY: <br /> Mmhmm May 2010. <br />MS. WONG: <br />I understand that Councilman Hoffman was one of the people that sort of put the <br />idea of an ag advisory commission together. One of the discussions we had recently was to <br />perhaps combine or consolidate Ag and Energy Commissions. There’s some thought behind <br />that which Eileen might be able to talk about. What are your thoughts about combining with <br />another commission? Is your focus so focused on ag that energy would be outside of your focus <br />or what are your general thoughts? <br />MS. POMEROY: <br /> Those two things do go hand in hand because of obvious reasons I don’t <br />need to explain it to you but energy is one of our main topics in this plan. So I don’t see it as <br />being a bad fit. I see it as being a good fit. However I’m thinking how would that work? <br />Would we all meet in the same room at the same time? If we did that that might be a little <br />cumbersome because even though they are related you have to break them down to a certain <br />degree. <br />MS. O’HARA: <br />I think, just to help with how that might happen is you have a collection of <br />individuals on each of the commission who have been chosen for their particular expertise in <br />this point in time and how long are your appointments for? <br />MS. POMEROY: <br />The term of the mayor. <br />MS. O’HARA: <br /> So it’s four years. So it would be something that would be more of a <br />transition. Something the next appointments would choose people who have both expertise in <br />ag and energy or individuals with energy and individuals with ag so that your next commission <br />if it were combined or consolidated would have individuals with both expertise on it. It would <br />be difficult at this point to take your commission and gel it with the other commission because <br />of the selection of the individuals. I’m sure that not everybody on your commission has <br />background on energy and likewise on the energy commission so it might be difficult to do but <br />something to strive for in the future is what we would be suggesting. <br />MS. NICHOLSON: <br />When your subcommittees meet your subcommittees consists of how <br />many people? <br />MS.POMEROY <br />: Two people. <br />MS. NICHOLSON: <br /> So you don’t call upon county staff to support your subcommittee <br />meetings? <br />MS.POMEROY <br />:On staff no. Sometimes meetings are by phone, sometimes they are in <br />person but there’s no extra staff there. <br />MS. WONG: <br />Does R&D staff Energy Commission as well? <br />MS. O’HARA: <br />Mmhmm. The energy coordinator is under R&D also. <br />MS. WONG: <br /> One of my other questions is it has been mentioned before that DayDay is really <br />the only person addressing ag in R&D right now. Ag is huge. Is one person enough to address <br />ag or in the plan that you have would it require more than one person to address? <br />9 <br /> <br />