2019-01-10 (draft) Cost of Government Commission minutes

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Cost of Government Commission January 10, 2019 meeting minutes th Okay do I need to move that we have our reports in to me by the 27 is that something that needs to be done? Arthurs: I just have a question with regards to the final formatting. I liked what you and Lenard has together and it is very concise it has the budget figures it has the recommendation and the result. Do we need to add what Roy kept referring to as an operating principle or is that over-arching thing or because like for our particular area I just put this together the operating principle the citizen rate of Hawaii county bears some level of responsibility in seeing that seniors age in adequate housing accommodations according to their level of independence in able to drive and level of dependence or unable to drive and those are definitions of the Office of Aging. So do we want to do something about some principle? Jones: Well I had thought we were at least going to start with a paragraph for each of our sub-committees in terms of that overarching so in other words all of these recommendations from parks and rec, there probably should be a paragraph about that that addresses that overarching theory that Mr. Takemoto was talking about I think there is room for that and I think that is also where the personality of this commission comes through and how we are responding to that overarching theme. Arthurs: And then also to indicate perhaps the individual that we spoke with. Jones: I am a little nervous about that. Only because there has been different levels of acceptance of cooperation so I don’t really want to put anyone on the hot seat because I asked and they didn’t come back to me. I’m really trying to keep this down to a very specific report from this commission on what we recommend and why if you want to acknowledge someone’s assistance again that first paragraph of this is our sub- committee and this is what we have reviewed and these are the overlying principles that would be the place to do it. I would think but, again, few words. The fewer words the better. I wanted to first acknowledge Mr. McIntosh do you have something you wanted to say? McIntosh: No you covered it. Arthurs: Oh okay. So that would be the basic format. Thank you. Jones: Can you read Mrs. Hopkins notes into the records for us? Arthurs: Yes I’ve read that. Yeah so any acknowledgement of the individuals that we might have spoken with if we include those to be in the appendix is that what I am seeing? Jones: Oh I see what she means it says the issue that Barbara brought could be articulated in the introduction of the report and we could include the sources as appendices at the end of the report. So that is not a bad idea either. Especially if you quote somebody or someone gave you specific information I think and appendix at the 10