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

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Cost of Government Commission January 10, 2019 meeting minutes we’re going to take something away from them then I think that is important to support the level they are at right now. Don’t take away from that group so you know think like that in terms of the budget we got to start with cost of government and move down from there. Okay? Arthurs: Okay, So basically if you look down you will see the sort of just our thoughts there on the Office of Aging and then the housing department this is where we need to get the specific numbers from Neil with regards to separating the costs for senior housing out from the overall housing budget and that’s it for now. Jones: I do want to say I really like number 4 I think that starting the planning process before they get to be 50 year olds starting it in kindergarten might be a really good idea to start giving the population because there is going to be growing numbers to me that’s…I’m going to have to say I don’t see how it saves money other than down the line you are saving by getting people to plan in advance. Arthurs: It is going to be a challenge if we just look at the growth and looking on page 1 and 2 were we have listed the rental units available in these specific senior housing programs if you add them up they are not going to come near 10% of the number of people that might be served if you say 90% prefer to stay at home and 10% maybe would be somewhere else, these numbers would not meet the 10% so in that respect it’s a challenge because, in my mind, if 90% of the people prefer to stay at home, is the county facilitating that option and so we are saying things like which is already being done where the county planning department resurrected the ability to go ahead and build ohana homes, pre-permitted housing plans and then there is one that the county has through the department of housing and this is for repairs of homes, but we are not necessarily looking at repairs but making modifications to the home to accommodate the seniors needs for mobility and access so those are the kinds of things you know again this is a recommendation what would be the expected result and in terms of the cost so we will work on that. Jones: with number 8 I want to mention just as an example in bringing down the number of words you could take out everything from ‘the office’ to ‘want’ and trade that to ‘explore avenues to collaborate with charitable foundations’ to lower a few words. It will make it more concise and easier for the group to get. Okay? Arthurs: Okay, thank you Jones: I would like to acknowledge that Mr. Larson has joined us. Thank you for attending. So we covered culture recreation, health education welfare, public safety miscellaneous, and I am going to acknowledge Mrs. Hopkins she is drafting her recommendations for sanitation waste removal base on the responses of Mr. Goodale and the final county of Hawaii indicated resources and solid waste management since December 9. She is waiting for the response from the waste water program. She is shooting to have the recommendation draft shared with the commission members by the next meeting. Sounds great. Mr. Larson would you like to add anything to that? 8