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

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Cost of Government Commission February 14, 2019 meeting minutes Jones: Yeah it is very well done. Okay so now we are moving on to health education and welfare is that correct? Did anyone have any other comments or questions? So lets just review it before we move on. McIntosh: I guess my only question is are we going to put everything together and then examine it later or are we going to examine it as we go along how are we going to do it. Jones: Well certainly if it is prepared and it is in front of us I would like to go along make notes and move forward so that to tackle a final draft in one sitting is going to be nearly impossible we need to look at these things in detail piece by piece and there may be even a moment where we need some time to just sit and read this stuff to understand it but I think we should try to go through it piece by piece I assume that why we are discussing this and putting your opinions and questions and comments in that the people in the sub committees are taking those and adding them like you discussed well we can go ahead and add this now that the DPW is now involved you know what I mean. So if you each every section as it becomes available we need to at some point say okay at this date we would want the final. This is it we are done. If since this is already exists as a template from Mrs. Hopkins we need to almost discuss is there anything we need to do with this template as well. I think we should get through this as it is one more section and then general recommendations that we should try to get through today. Then we can see what else we can fit in because we haven’t seen the other minutes to review so one more thing we have to get to. Rogers: okay, for the health education welfare, I am so amazed how Jenny was able to reduce 2 pages into 1 line. For health education and welfare the one liner she put for it is update federal grants streamline planning approval for housing mentor our seniors to university classrooms increase public information sharing from the office of aging. So Pua and I have been working to put this together, did our research to put our report together and I kept saying how do we get this to be shorter and when I saw this this morning I said, “Oh my God she really shortened it.” But to clarify I think we need to when I talked about this that one liner update federal grants I am not so sure they update that but continue to obtain federal grants so rather than to use the word update is to say continue to obtain federal grants and (?) The second part instead of streamline planning but to streamline permitting approval and that goes back to Planning for senior what I am looking at is health education welfare it misses the fact that Pua and I have really been focusing on the senior populations, so somehow we need to put that in there. So approval for senior housing including construction and retrofitting so it has to do with the construction and retrofitting and Pua and I looked at what they call universal design and accommodating changes to the facility that would meet the needs of seniors as they meet different kinds of accommodations particular to accommodate the fact that seniors become physically more frail and then work to mentor our seniors because we are not mentoring our seniors so what we wanted to say was introducing our seniors as mentors into the k to university classroom and then the last part is increase public information sharing from the office of aging. So that is a bullet that I think captures what Pua and I have worked together in 2 pages. So Jenny has mentioned some of the stuff that we elaborated on would be in the (?) 15