2006-05-18 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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people to reach a certain level. How to keep good people they're motivated to stay and choose public service for a reason, but we are going to lose some. The question is how to keep as many of them as possible, and keep them on the light side. To me, the greatest contributor to that is training. It's the training at the top and in the middle that's key. It's beyond the appointed official. It's the long- time guys and the ones just below them, not the appointed guys. That's the key to a strong and stable county government. If they have bad experiences and become poor managers, their whole standard for that group they are leading is low. How do we raise that level of professionalism? It's a crap shoot, how good that person's boss was five, ten years ago. If thatperson was old-fashioned, he's going to manage that same way when he gets to be a boss. How do you broaden the pool of good managers, and that's through training. I don't mean sending them to a canned program on the mainland. It's more through experience -based type training. That's my suggestion. It's a hard thing to deliver. Mr. Sakaguchi told Mr. Sumada that his father would be proud and explained to the others that his father was Mits Sumada. Mr. Sumada thanked the commissioners and left. 7.-17. DISCUSSION /ACTION ON (VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS') RESPONSES TO THE COMMISSION'S LETTER DATED APRIL 10, 2006 Mr. Joseph suggested tabling the rest of the agenda to the next meeting and only inviting one person to speak, that being Stanley Nakasone. Mr. Sakaguchi and Ms. Stremski agreed. Mr. Joseph said that in tabling the rest of the agenda, they could spend an hour on all of the communications. Ms. Garson said it should be done via a motion to defer to the next meeting Motion: Ms. Stremski moved to defer the communications to the next agenda. Mr. Sakaguchi seconded. Discussion: Ms. Nicholson said she does not see the point in talking about each one of the responses individually and that the responses need to be tied to when they talk about that department. Mr. Joseph said that they will still need a motion on each response to accept and file. Ms. Cushnie asked if they were deferring them until the next meeting and taking each one and filing them and talking about them later, and Mr. Joseph said yes. Vote: All members voted aye to defer the responses to the next agenda. 18. DISCUSSION ON LIST OF COUNTY -OWNED VEHICLES This item was also deferred to the next agenda. 16