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

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Cost of Government Commission February 14, 2019 meeting minutes Jones: So it is like a carbon offset credit? (28:38): Not a credit but if they are reducing the carbon footprint I am just saying you are pointing out another thing that would be in the positive favor for the budget converting to a fleet because now you are cutting down on the number of vehicles on the road. (28:56): But not only making it look good but it is affects climate change, that is a positive. (Crosstalk (29:34): One of the websites and I don’t know if I passed it on last time does a pretty thorough analysis of the admissions and the savings on fuel efficiency and all that on the newer vehicles. In a standardized new vehicle you know what those are going to be. Leasing, financing, carbon footprint efficiency Jones: Would anyone else like to share any thoughts on this particular section, just the police section right now. Okay, so we will look forward which should be close to the final draft at the next meeting. (30:25): I will just add it to the paragraph and keep it in red so we can see what changed and then whoever is the final gate keeper for all that erase all of the red. Jones: Okay, how about the planning? Who is handing planning? (30:41): I just added the red there at the top I don’t know if you can it’s all in black. So the full mark under planning the second sentence where it says aggressively approved for the already planned staff increase. Reinstate add staff and applicant meetings, we suggested that they reinstate the staff meetings and I in the past have suggested that the planning department should meet with the applicants because that brings a far faster resolution to planning issues. Below that there is like 2 or 3 sentences and the new part says reinstate monthly meetings for planning personal approval of responsibility and supporting information. Schedule initial meetings, I suggest 1-2 weeks because I have experience with that in other (?). The planning department schedules a quick initial meeting, sends the applicant back with a bunch of (?) before they even have to a full review and approval on the application it a makes things happen far faster there isn’t a 30 day way or however long wait for a response from the planning department and then no surprise to the developer or the engineer or the architect, here is what you have to change. Then they have to get that into their schedule if you put the whole group together in the beginning, it cuts many many steps out of the process and what that will do is free up a tremendous amount of time for the whole completely overwhelmed planning department personal from what I understand, we only have 2 people that do final approval for planning for building permits 7