1999-02-20 Charter Commission Minutes

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INTRODUCTION OF COMMISSIONERSPage 15 of 29 YOSHIYAMA: The range right now is quite large. Minimum $2,329 a month, this is 40 hours a week, up to a maximum of $3,586 a month. MARTIN: Now that is topside, does that include their benefit package? YOSHIYAMA: No, that’s straight salary. If we need somebody on board now, there are provisions again, within Civil Service, or within government that you can pick up emergency appropriation or hire, so we can pick up somebody off the street, or we can ask Civil Service because they do exams and stuff like that and we can pick up somebody during the interim and then carry on. So, we don’t have to wait for a permanent body or a final decision before we get some clerical support or paralegal support. RAY: Okay, we got kind of a range of preliminary opinions on what it’s going to take to do this. Personally, I really don’t have a clue what we’re talking about time-wise here. On one hand Kevin, I hear what you’re saying, what you’re talking about with the Planning Commission which meets full time with a full board agenda year round. This is really the nature of this commission. It could be quite different, I don’t know. And we’re going to discuss that in regard to goals and objectives in what people see this commission undertaking. Certainly, we’ll view what everybody says in what that’s all about. So I’m not comfortable deciding we need a 40 hour week versus a 20 hour week, and I’d really like to see what the past commissions have done and used and how all that works. So, I think we need that information. IRVINE: Can we go to a temporary agency or something, somebody to just take minutes? HERKES: While, in the meantime, why don’t we just make some decisions here? Why don’t we appoint a committee and do it and get it settled and come back to the board. It’s not a rocket science to hire a secretary. IRVINE: Apparently, it takes more than 30 days though in the County to do it. You have to put in the newspaper and stuff. YOSHIYAMA: Not necessarily. You might have a listing already. LEGASPI: What I did is that I wanted a secretary to monitor the situation today. But the three that I got were not available. I got quotes from them as far as a one shot deal, or even a long term deal. I have that information available. SANTANGELO: So I had a motion to set up a selection committee with Steve heading that and possibly two other people, and we could do the secretary and attorney. RAY: And move in all haste to cover ourselves. BESS: I I have no problem with that, we could have two different committees doing this thing, in terms of just spreading out time. One for the secretary and one for the lawyer, and I’d be happy to do the lawyer one, but I suggest that maybe we just keep…. SANTANGELO: So my motion was, original motion was for a lawyer, so I stick to that and do I have a second then? BALOG: I’ll second that, to move this along. And I’ll move to close that. And he’s going to chair file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 2-20-99.html7/1/2011