2011-06-08 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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CORRESPONDENCE: MS. NICHOLSON: Agenda item 4, correspondence, Comm. 2011-009. Do I have a motion to accept and file this communication? This was the testimony that was handed out at the last meeting from Mr. Fred Housel and it has to do with – he’s saying elimination. We’re talking about consolidation of community development plan steering and action committees in the draft report. Is there a motion to accept and file? MOTION:MR. O’HARA: So moved. MR. ARMOUR: Second. MS. NICHOLSON: Any discussion? We will accept and file communication 2011-009. DISCUSSION REGARDING ITEMS PREVIOUSLY RECOMMENDED TO BE PLACED IN DRAFT REPORT/FORMAT OF DRAFT REPORT/REVISION OF DRAFT REPORT: MS. NICHOLSON: Now to the hard part. Discussion of our report. We can take this one in order. A says see attached draft report. We can go ahead and talk about Gloria’s draft conclusion, which thank you so much for taking that on. Gloria, go ahead. MS. WONG: I just wanted to go over a comment that I, we hadn’t finished the 10 primary recommendations but the conclusion that I drafted was to, if our audience is the Mayor and the County Council, I put in quotes from the Mayor and from Pete Hoffmann. And it’s a call to action thanking the people that participated and the last paragraph is basically a call to action. And this is your draft, the last paragraph, for the County Council and the Mayor to act on whatever we said. And I await for them whatever else that we want to do based on finishing the 10 point, primary points that we wanted to promote. MS. NICHOLSON: So, are you recommending that we move into our 10 points first and then come back to your conclusion? Would that be helpful? MS. WONG: Whatever you choose. I just wanted to explain how I wrote this. MS. NICHOLSON: Since we’re on this, I’d rather just go ahead and talk about the conclusion, which I found very good. Thank you so much. I just have a couple of grammatical things to correct but that’s it. Any other substantive discussion on the conclusion? It was really superb. It really wraps things up very well. My only grammatical things were in the fourth line – there should be a comma after if any. MR. MATSUDA: Yes. MS. NICHOLSON: Changes comma, if any comma.And then, in the third paragraph, we’re quoting from Pete Hoffmann, fifth line down, I think there’s an apostrophe in aint. MS. O’HARA: Yes, there is. 6