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<br />was the lack of, as I keep hearing, participation. How would you deal with that? Let’s say you don’t
<br />have anybody. Let’s say you can’t find anybody. Let’s say nobody steps forward. What you’re
<br />proposing sounds good but let’s say there are nobody for that specific, or particular, Commission. What
<br />do you do? You still stay with the 30 day holdover? That was our concern and that’s why we brought it
<br />up.
<br />TANAKA: Hopefully the Administration will be able to submit names to the County Council, so it
<br />depends on whether - there’s a couple of stages before you get to confirmation. Number one is
<br />Administration nominating the names to County Council, so that’s step number one. So the time period
<br />there, and then the confirmation time by the Council. So it depends on where the bottleneck is, I guess.
<br />But yes, assuming that nobody steps forward, that the Mayor has no one to recommend, yes, the 30 day
<br />would hold. We hope that that wouldn’t happen if we started the recruiting process early, and part of
<br />that, also, is because there’s so much to learn, we would like to see the new Commissioners come on in
<br />January, or February at the latest, so everybody starts off from the beginning part of the year, instead of
<br />somebody coming in in April and June, and they’re having to catch up, come up to speed. As far as the
<br />training, because nothing like this has been implemented yet, as soon as the person comes on, whether
<br />it’s January 1st or April 1st, or whatever, that person starts their training at that time, so you’re in the
<br />meeting and that’s your training. So having to catch up with all of that.
<br />MARTIN: More or less I agree with the concept except for the fact that there’s going to be certain
<br />Commissions where you’re not going to find anybody to step forward. Administration may not be able
<br />to find anybody, and I don’t think the 30 days is going to be enough as a holdover. I think we’re going to
<br />need some leeway there.
<br />RAY: Questions? Roland.
<br />HIGASHI: I think the training concept is good but I don’t think the Charter’s the place to put something
<br />like that. I think it’s something administratively they could handle. Maybe as a Commission, you could
<br />talk to the Planning Commissioner that when we have new people, we should run through an
<br />indoctrination and training, but I don’t think it should be in the Charter.
<br />RAY: Kevin.
<br />BALOG: Two questions only. The first one, do you have knowledge if the current Administration has
<br />ever stopped looking for people to serve on the various Boards and Commissions?
<br />RAY: Has ever stopped what?
<br />BALOG: In other words, do you know - I mean we keep hearing that, oh the Administration has to look,
<br />and some of the stuff is saying if they can’t find somebody out of magical thin air, a Legislative body
<br />may find somebody. But, to my knowledge, and I’m not saying this specific Administration, I would say
<br />most Administrations, once they start, do you think they ever stop looking for people?
<br />TANAKA: I don’t think so.
<br />BALOG: I don’t think so either, so it leads me back to where do you get these people? And that kind of
<br />leads to my second question. You went through, I would say, a few turbulent years with heavy
<br />schedules, 2 a.m., 1, 12 midnight, and now you’re two meetings a month, right? Do you know of many
<br />other business people, or just people who are employed by other people, who could go to the employer,
<br />or say to their own business, that, you know what, in your specific Commission, I’m going to give up
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