2010-07-30 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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MS. NICHOLSON: Is there a way that we as Cost of Government Commission could send something out to all the employees by e-mail. I don’t know how you could communicate with some. MR. TAKABA: Well, somebody has. Is it H.R? MS. GARSON: It can be done but you wouldn’t reach all the employees because not all of them has e-mail address. MR. TAKABA: You could put something in with their pay stubs. MS. NICHOLSON: Okay. MR. TAKABA: Directing them to who to send, like the chair of the Cost of Government Commission. MS. O’HARA: Could we put this form, a letter like this, a form somewhere they can real it? MS. GARSON: On your website. I think you can. MS. O’HARA: Where they can reach it and then do a notice on the payroll? MS. NICHOLSON: And then ask them to view the website and respond? MR. TAKABA: Or just in an e-mail. MS. O’HARA: We don’t want to make it entirely electronic because a lot of county workers don’t have access to a computer, and aren’t necessarily that literate on the computer. MS. PROVALENKO: I like the idea of in the paycheck. MS. GARSON: That’s fine. That’s approximately 2300 employees. MR. MATSUDA : Very brief questions. MS. GARSON: And the communication back can be, you can mail by using our address mail, fax, or e-mail to the board secretary. That should be fine. MS. NICHOLSON: Any more discussion on how we want to proceed? That’s in general terms. We have some homework we want to do. You’re looking doubtful. MS. GARSON: No. I don’t want the Charter to be a mystery to you. I think what you’re going to find is, just an example – I looked up Department of Water Supply. And if you’re looking at what is the core service, obviously it’s providing water. All this says is talking about the Water Board, it says they shall manage, control, and operate the water works of the County and all property thereof. So, you’re going to look at this and you’re not going to get too many answers as to what are core services. Cause what you don’t 24