2019-01-24 (draft) Cost of Government Commission minutes

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Cost of Government Commission January 24, 2019 meeting minutes (46:05): The graphed recommendation is not complete yet. Waste water division has not set the information it was promised last week. But they need another follow up in hopes to get it today or tomorrow. And we will complete it for next week. Is that pretty close? I don’t think I missed anything is there something else? Jones: So when you do have your draft ready you can just copy me and I will always bring hard copies if I can. If you send me something I am going to bring hard copies to the meeting. Okay so we move on now to culture and recreation I have to say I was not very productive these last 2 weeks with culture and recreation. What I did do was do a little research on the past (?) in particular and I accidently pulled up something from 2009 that had a really impressive number of individuals that were working at the zoo that it made the paper the mayor went out, at that time I think it was (?) I believe. As well as people from garden societies the (?) club, san fran California. So there was a super enthusiasm in the past to make the zoo a really wonderful place for people of our island. And visitors of course so I am thinking that there is an opportunity to turn it back and make it paper itself by improving it. So that’s where I know we are kind of headed. And how can we spread out some of the needs they have in terms of groundskeepers um can they be barrowed 1 day a week here 1 day a week there rather than increasing the costs since grounds keepers although may need particular skill should be able to be transferred pretty well when you are just talking cleaning up an area. I know that we are now because of Mr Allen’s work the both prisons are sending people over once a month each I think is when the schedule is. So hopefully that will be turned into a rhythm (?) so that can continue um as well as we know we are going to recommend fees absolutely plausible fees and more elaborate petting zoo situation where people will actually be motivated to bring their children in than Mr Allen mentioned you know the (?) you know where you turn in get a little handful of something and you pay a little money for it and that money goes back in. so there are several different things um as far I want to let you go ahead at it. (49:44): oh uh. What I felt that would be a good recommendation was the zoo staff which is small is also responsible for the (?) center which is very minimally used. Than so they have to spend part of their day over there trying to contain that just to sit there. (50:10): What is the (?) center? (50:13): As you go into the zoo it is immediately to your right up on the hill and they got the horse corals they got the arena and all those things maybe that I know it gets used for maybe a yearly rodeo but there is 1 or 2 people that store horses in there but most of the corals or vacant and so my recommendation was to sell it. And get it off the books make some money on it and let the workers just focus working at the zoo than 5 people rather than giving them 2 facilities to take care of give them 1 facility that way no other employees need to be added. (51:14): What would the equestrian community say about that? 12