2011-03-23 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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MS. NICHOLSON: This would require timely posting of transcripts online. And then Ken wanted to add something about in lieu of the…. What did you have Ken? MR. ARMOUR: Something like the current videotaping system or process. MS. NICHOLSON: In lieu of the current contracted videotaping services. MR. ARMOUR: As a side note, if we think this is a good idea then we should also put in that it would increase the availability to all county residences. MS. NICHOLSON: That’s a good thing to add in because I think it would increase the availability. Anything else? MS. GARSON: Ifound these items that you discussed in the last meeting and actually they were passed forward they just didn’t make it there. The things you just revised they were supposed to be in the recommendations for this agenda. MS. NICHOLSON: All these? MS. GARSON: Yeah but now you’ve revised it. So sorry. MS. NICHOLSON: That’s all right we would have revised them anyway. Okay onto discussions from the operations, budget, consolidation committee. So we need to decide where these things will go as we discuss them we need to figure out…. Or did we do that last meeting, figure out where they go? MS. WONG: No, we did not. We read off the list and discussed what we had said and left it at that and said we would discuss it at the next meeting. MS. NICHOLSON: Okay so item 1 Executive Assistant/Volunteer Coordinator. Having read this I was totally at a loss of really what this is about. I needed a lot more explanation of what this was and what it was for. I wasn’t at the last meeting so that’s why. But having read it cold I went hmm. MS. WONG: The volunteer program was something that I think we had discussed and didn’t pass it through as going forward but just to be clear it would be someone employed by the county to be a volunteer coordinator. Volunteer coordinator outside financed by corporate sponsors. So someone in the county that could be a liaison for services in the county because someone from the outside would not know where the resources were and someone paid… It’s sort of like public private partnership. From the outside finance wise there would be a corporate sponsor for projects. For example, the tsunami, getting people involved as the county would need and as different community areas would need. Whatever programs would need to have training for the people that would be involved and part of the thought was that a lot of senior citizens or people that are on furlough or unemployed would have some platform for still using their services, being active in the community.I just saw on t.v. this morning President Obama talking about serve.gov, get the community involved and so I was the one that sort of put that concept together. MS. NICHOLSON: So the recommendation is to hire or create two new positions, one would be funded by county and one would be funded by outside groups. 16