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until hopefully we get, you know, more members here. We're expecting everybody to come, and
<br />since we're going to be voting on that. And -, okay, that's No. A.
<br />No. B, Selection of Commission Secretary, we're going to defer that, as well, until Ms. Herkes
<br />gets here because she's been heading up that effort, and so we'll get the report when she arrives.
<br />Okay. Other. As far as Unfinished Business, and we may have to defer this until more members
<br />get here, but I did want to discuss the topic of, you know, general organization and scheduling
<br />kind of, you know, where we think we're heading within, you know, what time frame. We've
<br />embarked on this review of the County departments, which is an initial review, and then we
<br />discussed last week the -, going out for public hearings in June and July, and I've distributed a
<br />schedule. I went ahead and, you know, scheduled those places. We agreed on those dates at the
<br />last meeting, so I went ahead and scheduled those locations, and we actually booked those
<br />locations tentatively to make sure, you know, we could go to those. So if we do that in June and
<br />July, then we'll have done a round of, you know, public hearings and gotten public input.
<br />In regard to the departments, we didn't schedule several departments that are -, or a couple that
<br />are connected with boards and commissions, specifically Planning and Department of Water, and
<br />as part of this review, the various boards and commissions have to agendize and meet and come
<br />back to us with recommendations, so that's part of that review, as well, that we haven't, you
<br />know, scheduled in this first round of department reviews. So that's got to be accommodated at
<br />some point.
<br />And then we've got to decide, basically, you know, where we go from there. We came out with
<br />this, you know, a tentative, you know, schedule of what things might look like but does anybody
<br />have any comment or input on that? You know, we looked at a schedule accommodating a
<br />possible special election, and we kind of worked back from there to come up with a scenario of
<br />what, you know, the whole review process might look like. But, you know, already we've, you
<br />know, departed from that schedule pretty dramatically, so I don't know what thoughts you folks
<br />have as far as, you know, what the process might look like and what the time frame might look
<br />like. You know, in the last Charter Commission, we heard last week that they pretty much, the
<br />formal review, just marched through the Charter section by section, so if we were going to do
<br />that, you know, I think we'd have our initial first round of review from the departments, input
<br />from the public, and then we could, you know, take off on the Charter from there and go through
<br />it section by section. That's one possibility.
<br />Another idea that was brought up is having subcommittees or committees that look at certain
<br />areas of 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
<br />well with me. One was that we were going to meet with the departments, and they were going to
<br />give us, you know, probably fairly germane concerns because they're working with it on a day-to-
<br />day, and that's going to start to bring us up to speed. That we were going to go out to the public
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