2014-02-20 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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4) abolishing services, activities and functions not necessary to the efficient conduct of government. Ms. Kelly seconded the motion and all commissioners present voted aye. Ms. Maddox stated there was a notion of sub-committees and the ability to individually look at particular departments. Mr. Matsuda stated it was good to have two people because what one person didn’t think of the other person did. Ms. Maddox asked the commission for their thoughts. Ms. Kierkiewicz and Mr. Mitchell liked the idea of teams. Ms. Kelly asked if the sub-committee meetings with the department could be audio recorded. Mr. Mitchell stated not everyone would like that and Mr. Matsuda agreed but said he would go with the majority. Ms. Kelly asked if a report of the meeting with the department heads were turned in to the commission. Mr. Matsuda replied it was all verbal. Ms. Kierkiewicz asked if the commissioners are going to break up into sub- committees and would the sub-committees be responsible for producing a write-up for the rest of the commissioners to work off of. Mr. Matsuda stated there wasn’t any difficulty coming up with notes and discussing what was discussed with the individual departments and it was presented to the commission that way. Ms. Garson commented that some sub-committees passed out a report. She also noted that if the sub-committees wanted their meetings recorded, they should invite the departments to the commission meeting since it is already being recorded. Ms. Maddox confirmed that the commission wanted to have sub-committees. She stated the commissioners should be thinking about questions to ask the departments and bring it back to the next meeting for discussion. She also asked the commissioners to read the previous reports before the next meeting and discuss what would be a high priority on where the commission should start and focus on to develop a strategy for going forward. (Break: 11:38 a.m. – 11:48 a.m.) 10. ITEMS TO BE PLACE ON THE NEXT AGENDA Ms. Maddox stated the standing agenda items would be: Call the meeting to order Statements from the public Discussion/action regarding approach to take to timely accomplish mandate of the Cost of Government Commission Items to be placed on the next agenda 8