1999-02-20 Charter Commission Minutes

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INTRODUCTION OF COMMISSIONERSPage 12 of 29 RAY: I’m comfortable that we’ll spend the money as frugally as possible, and won’t spend the money on things that aren’t important. So, that covers the first time period. All in favor of that motion? ALL:; AYE. RAY: Okay, motion carries. And then shall we just defer discussion on… SANTANGELO: I move to defer on the rest of the budget. HERKES: Second. RAY: All in favor? ALL: Aye. RAY: So we’ve covered the first part of the first page of the budget and we’ll defer to the second, and we will research past commission budgets and whatever else might be applicable to that discussion and get that information out to the group as soon as possible. Item D. Consideration for the Selection of the Commission’s Attorney and Secretary Including respective compensation. I believe what I heard already is that the secretary seems to be somebody we want to bring on board immediately. And then the Attorney is something there’s a process to. In terms of a Secretary, do we have to get it through the same process? LEGASPI: You have the option of hiring a permanent secretary to be working full time with you or on a meeting by meeting basis. I think the previous secretaries were full time, paid on a monthly scale, and that was about $1,900 a month. IRVINE: Seems if you have the right person, they could take some of this research and we wouldn’t have to pay $110 an hour. BALOG: That’s why I’m saying it depends on your secretary. I just think that it would be in our best interest to get about a 3 member sub committee, as we’re talking about these people now. I know it comes later in the next item, but I think we should advertise for a secretary before even an attorney and depending on, let them go in front of that selection committee, and have the selection committee at least make a recommendation of two or three, not only one and bring that forward to the entire commission, because I think there’s a lot of good qualified people out there, and I know a few myself, but I don’t’ think they’d work for one year on a temporary basis, but if you get the right secretary who could do legal research for the commission, then I think something like Corp Counsel would be sufficient, and on full time basis, not part time. SANTANGELO: I feel a little bit different about that in that I think we’re going to need something that’s a part of this, but what I want to do is I think we need to get on the secretary. I think we can defer the attorney. What I wanted to say was I’d like to move that we have that selection committee. I’d like to also as part of that motion have Mr. Bess lead that up with a couple of people from here. BESS: I’d be willing to do that. file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 2-20-99.html7/1/2011