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• • State legislature in '98 passed a law which applied to some kinds of permits, generally business and development related permits, that would -, that the departments were supposed to set rules that would give a maximum time frame for acting on the permit or they would be automatically approved. That only applies to selected kinds of permits. Some permits operate -, some permits already had a time frame in the law but it didn't say it was automatically approved. Give you an example, getting a liquor license. There's a time frame -, the Liquor Commission is supposed to act within so many days of your application or it becomes Before '98 it didn't say automatic approved, it didn't say what happened, it just said that they were supposed to act on it within, you know, 90 days or something. And now because of the automatic approval, then that's what happens. If they don't act on it within so many days, it becomes automatically approved. There isn't anything that applies to all kinds of actions that says what happens if they don't -, if there's nothing taken within a set period of time. WURDEMAN: The State law is pretty broad , but then it has some major exceptions such as any program that's federally mandated or federally something else, and that's how SMPs were determined by the Attorney General not to be -, to come under that law. RAY: Okay. WURDEMAN: And I was told the governor opposes that law, promised people he was going to get it taken off the books, but I don't know. RAY: Okay. WURDEMAN: Nothing happened this legislature. Okay, this 13-18 on claims, it's been in here a long time; it's unenforceable. The Supreme Court has ruled that we cannot require someone to file a claim before they sue us, so it should be deleted. Section 13-20, we have some inconsistencies between our open meetings requirements and those of the State Sunshine Law. I think that we should just bring ours into compliance with the State law and say so and let it go at that. Thirteen -twenty-eight, the Salary Commission. The Salary Commission presently determines the salaries of elected officials. The collective bargaining process determines the salaries of the bulk of the employees. Excluded employees get to have their salaries determine -, or more or less automatically raised pursuant to the collective bargaining agreement, Unit 13. There's a few of us, such as myself and my deputies, that are left out of this process, and we would like to see the Salary Commission have jurisdiction over those of us who are not covered by any other process. There's a couple other small matters, Urban Renewal, the State -, we ran into this problem. State law presently requires the County Charter provide for the abolition and transfer of the power of the Redevelopment Agencies. There's nothing in our Charter about it, and when the Council 21