2019-02-14 (draft) Cost of Government Commission minutes

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Cost of Government Commission February 14, 2019 meeting minutes Birch: What we were talking about earlier is the resort to have their own sub contained water system through that they police it exactly the same way so their new developments that they bring on to sell new properties to they are in control of the water, they tell them how much water they get so they have the ability then to negotiate past that and that is how those things cant get developed beyond that within a resort area. Well now you are in a public property area there is just not that option there is a lack of communication on that side. (49:27): (?) is an example of 2 vacant lots there they had 2 meters 4 gallons a day 400 gallons a day and a potential buyer wanted more water because they wanted to sub and that requires a lot more water called water department and the response was dig your own well. And I checked on that and it was at least a million bucks so a small development like that doesn’t have those resources. (49:51): So you are talking like water features. (49:56): The owner wanted to do water features and other resort kind of stuff. With more rooms you need more water for the laundry and stuff and showers and all that. But the response was sorry there is no more meters available for that area the only advice I can give you is dig your own well get it going and then we will take it over later if you want us to and manage it quote end quote. Jones: Any other comments on the planning section? Okay let’s take a look at we are going to skip over culture rec for right now. How about sanitation? (50:38): Okay so, (?) was very good to send out a long list of suggestions based on observations that are attached here. I took those suggestions, recommendations and bullet pointed those under sanitation after the first sentence there was we reviewed this before land fill fees were at net 0 budget then promote home composting promote partnering with private industry waste crews basically pick farming. Promote waste water recycling for ag use and simplify the process to utilize a landfill. The associated documents are going to be behind were (?) has gone through all of the results and suggestions which should substantiate those recommendations the only thing that I didn’t support in there is simplify application process to utilize landfill the reason why I put that on there is because I recently had to do an application to utilize landfill and it was horrible and I dedicated basically 2 and a half full days of my time to get those documents correct and through waste management and the County so I would of imagined that that sort of thing tends to somewhat consideration for puna and ocean view are well known as the place where you go to dump your appliances or cars or other junk. If they were to simplify that the result would be that there is no big deal that it is a time consuming process to go through and I don’t think the average person is going to say hey I am going to take this stuff to the dump when they should just be able to go over there and dump it off. It should be 5 minute form at the dump where you fill it out tell them what you are putting in and they have categories which you can mark and off it goes. My direct experience with utilizing land fills in Oregon were just that way very simple takes minutes you drive across the scale just like you do here then you drive 12