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<br />public hearings in June and July, and I’ve distributed a schedule. I went ahead and, you know, scheduled
<br />those places. We agreed on those dates at the last meeting, so I went ahead and scheduled those
<br />locations, and we actually booked those locations tentatively to make sure, you know, we could go to
<br />those. So if we do that in June and July, then we’ll have done a round of, you know, public hearings and
<br />gotten public input.
<br />In regard to the departments, we didn’t schedule several departments that are -, or a couple that are
<br />connected with boards and commissions, specifically Planning and Department of Water, and as part of
<br />this review, the various boards and commissions have to agendize and meet and come back to us with
<br />recommendations, so that’s part of that review, as well, that we haven’t, you know, scheduled in this
<br />first round of department reviews. So that’s got to be accommodated at some point.
<br />And then we’ve got to decide, basically, you know, where we go from there. We came out with this, you
<br />know, a tentative, you know, schedule of what things might look like but does anybody have any
<br />comment or input on that? You know, we looked at a schedule accommodating a possible special
<br />election, and we kind of worked back from there to come up with a scenario of what, you know, the
<br />whole review process might look like. But, you know, already we’ve, you know, departed from that
<br />schedule pretty dramatically, so I don’t know what thoughts you folks have as far as, you know, what
<br />the process might look like and what the time frame might look like. You know, in the last Charter
<br />Commission, we heard last week that they pretty much, the formal review, just marched through the
<br />Charter section by section, so if we were going to do that, you know, I think we’d have our initial first
<br />round of review from the departments, input from the public, and then we could, you know, take off on
<br />the Charter from there and go through it section by section. That’s one possibility.
<br />Another idea that was brought up is having subcommittees or committees that look at certain areas of
<br />the Charter, so that’s a possibility, as well. Mr. Santangelo.
<br />SANTANGELO: Well, I thought some of the things that had come up seemed to really bode well with
<br />me. One was that we were going to meet with the departments, and they were going to give us, you
<br />know, probably fairly germane concerns because they’re working with it on a day-to-day, and that’s
<br />going to start to bring us up to speed. That we were going to go out to the public and we were going to
<br />meet with the public and hear what they had to say. From that, what I pictured was that would now start
<br />to give us an idea of what are some major issues, and I think when the other -, the Charter members
<br />from the past came here, they said, you know, generally, you’re going to take on one, two, or three
<br />major change things, and then there’s going to be a lot of housekeeping. And it seems to me that when
<br />we got done with the departments, at least first round, and Commissions, we met with the public, we’d
<br />have that kind of in hand, and we could start to deal with these large issues. And then once we had -, and
<br />this is just one person’s attitude, then we would start to march through that. I like the idea of taking it
<br />section by section by section. What we would have in the background, the input from departments that
<br />are dealing with those specific sections, so we’d be kind of prepared for that. So the section by section
<br />would be our housekeeping, and then if anything came up in between, we could stop and take care of
<br />that.
<br />RAY: Okay.
<br />SANTANGELO: And that’s just how I saw it.
<br />RAY: Okay. What about, from a logistical standpoint, we’ve got a lot of meetings scheduled already,
<br />and as I mentioned, we don’t -, we haven’t scheduled a number of departments, boards and commissions
<br />yet so, you know, one thought is I don’t know how this would work out for them logistically. We could
<br />try to schedule some of that at the same time we hold these public hearings; that’s certainly a possibility.
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