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

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Cost of Government Commission February 14, 2019 meeting minutes Jones: Just so we are clear, this was written by Hopkins? You put this whole thing together. So What I would say is there is room for more than this certainly. In the front section. I want to read it with your corrections. So what we have right now is continue to apply for federal grants, streamline permit approval process for senior housing introducing our seniors as mentors into K university classrooms increase public sharing information from the office of aging. Is that sort of your final on that one um I certainly think there is room but all support for that statement. (1:08:14): No, I don’t think it (?) The way I vision this is that you have your bullet points and then you have an explanation of your bullet points like a paragraph saying here is why we have these bullet points. Then all of the supporting documentation points drops into the addendum Jones: So kind of when you look at the planning one it is the bullet to say this is our recommendation and then there is a concise paragraph saying why but then the addendum really has to work that’s why I am saying there is more room than just the one bullet and though I like this sentence I believe there is a little bit of room for expanding there. (1:09:04): Okay so what we have for each of the recommendations because we had 5 recommendations for the department of housing and community development and 5 recommendations for the office of aging and disability so what you did in 1 sentence was really capture all of these points but we also have the rational for each of the recommendations is a rational and the result basically the result is to reduce any future cost to the county and we are looking at money right so that will be it so what you are asking from Pua and me is to present it in that format where we have the bullet and then just select some of the pieces here so many have to come out with a paragraph. Jones: But please feel free to elaborate any indents because I assume whoever bothers to look at our report is going to be interested enough to go back and find where we got the supporting information to help those recommendations so it is not just our opinion Greg: First thing we want to do is take some very busy people and capture their interest thus the bullet point and if they don’t want to if that bullet point doesn’t catch their interest I don’t really care they can’t move on to the next bullet point but somebody might capture their interested and go on and say why do they recommend why are they saying this and they can get a little extra of that instead of having to go through the whole extreme and if they see the Y and they feels okay and say okay I need to look at this more then they can go on but we are dealing with people who are I had a good example I had a when I was applying for a permit to dump at the county dump I had the gal on the phone tell me that I needed to get 1 of 3 people she has the (?) listing for our company for (?) I need to get 1 of 3 people to send a letter saying that I had approval to make decisions for their company okay? So one of 3 people were the CEO the chief of financial officer and I don’t remember who the other one was but they were all the 3 top people in our company our company is 60,000 employees worldwide there is no possible way that CEO is going to write a letter to the county to approve me making 16