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<br />RAY: And did you get much input of -? You know, I know Bob commented not much input of real
<br />substance but, you know, I mean, how was the turnout and how pertinent was the, you know -?
<br />YUEN: There were a few community organizations that had very extensive kinds of comments. There
<br />were probably two or three community organizations really came with, you know, a list of changes, and
<br />there were a few citizens who had gone through, you know, go through it and yellow pencil everything
<br />that they would like to see changed. There were -, more often, there were people that had a specific
<br />thing, but it wasn’t -, none of them were your TV classic public hearing with, you know, people
<br />pounding of the tables and -.
<br />RAY: Okay. From a -.
<br />YUEN: Everything was very civil.
<br />RAY: Okay, from a process standpoint, input from the public versus input from the, you know, County
<br />departments, and, you know, how that works. In other words, you know, we ask for input from the
<br />County departments, or say we did all our County department review in June and July or whatever,
<br />right, and then we went out to the public, and then we got suggestions. Then did you go back to the
<br />departments for, you know, comments or input on things that had come up that weren’t covered initially
<br />or -?
<br />L’ORANGE: I think Bob asked the question, I think the chairman asked questions of the department if
<br />there was something -.
<br />YUEN: You must have sent a letter to -.
<br />L’ORANGE: Needed more information.
<br />YUEN: On -, and I think they were -, weren’t they all invited to -.
<br />BETHEA: I think we took them -.
<br />YUEN: Invited to -.
<br />BETHEA: Didn’t we take them in groups or -?
<br />YUEN: Yeah.
<br />BETHEA: Have the finance people come.
<br />RAY: Okay, well, let me give you a example, okay. We’ve already requested, you know, from the
<br />departments and boards and commissions, right, that they submit in writing, you know, what they’ve got
<br />on their minds, and we’re starting to schedule meetings. I’ve got a letter from the Fire Department
<br />saying, basically, no comment. Okay, well, I know that we’re going to get comment from the general
<br />public in regard to a Fire Commission or, you know, some things about the Fire Department or whatever
<br />so, you know, that’s an example of where, you know, initially the Fire Department, you know, might not
<br />have anything to say, right, and then we, you know, say we have a huge outpouring of folks that, you
<br />know, are -, suggest a Fire Commission just like the Police Commission or, you know, and that
<br />commission, just like the Police Commission, electing the -, I mean hiring the chief and whatever. So
<br />does that ring a bell, things like that?
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