2011-06-08 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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MS. O’HARA: Yeah. You do have a copy of this and you can track changes so everything that I’m recommending is underlined. The 2010-2011 COGC commissioners are pleased to provide an extensive list of recommendations on measures that County may consider adopting to save costs and enhance revenues. In this executive summary, we are – and then that’s the additional language. MS. NICHOLSON: Okay. Discussion on that change. That work for everyone? Rather than taking votes on all these things, as long as no one objects, I think that’s a good change. Any other discussion on that? How do you want to handle this? MS. GARSON: No. I’m just trying to keep up. MS. NICHOLSON: So let’s look at item no. 1 which was the Consolidation of the enforcement. I see that in the main statement before the justification, Eileen has just madeCounty with a capital C. I’m glad you’re picking up on those little things. MS. O’HARA: Just for reference about the document when you say the county, it should be capital C. MS. NICHOLSON: Is there a way we can just do a check throughout the whole document and make sure where it says the county it’s always capital C? MS. GARSON: Yes. MS. NICHOLSON: Justification. We have some suggested changes or additions in my version and in Eileen’s version. I was just trying to beef up the justifications on all these little bits so they’re more, they have more to them. But why don’t we just take a minute to read both of those suggested changes. Okay, I guess the main change that I put in is I wanted to reflect that discussion we had which was timely service to the public. So I added that into my justification because that was part of it that a person is waiting for this inspector, then waiting for that inspector, and when we can put timely service to the public or service to the public in our document if that’s helpful. So, MS. WONG: It seems like we could do both of these changes. MS. O’HARA: Yeah. I like your last sentence. MR. MATSUDA: Put it together. MS. WONG: Cause you changed the last sentence and you changed the second. MS. O’HARA: Yeah, right. I put in new language that wasn’t in there before. If we did that, it would read,Consolidating enforcement efforts under one department will allow for a more effective and timely response on regulatory violations that are under the county’s jurisdiction. It would also allow for better interaction with State and Federal agencies that may also have jurisdiction over a regulatory violation such that the public is better served in resolving the issue(s). Consolidation may not require creation of new positions, and may be achieved by transferring existing personnel. Consolidation of 9