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Chair Jacobs: We could put these terms—medium-term, short-term, ongoing, and long-term— for each advisory board, in the appendix instead of in the plan document. Commissioner Gordon: It seems to me that if you're going to have it, you might as well put it in here. I don't know how you're going to put it in the appendix without duplicating a lot of text. I haven't thought about it to know whether it should be in here or not. Chair Jacobs: If we stop to have a discussion about whether each of these should be medium- term, short-term, or long-term, we'd be here forever. It's fairly arbitrary, and it is going to change, and it doesn't reflect the fiscal realities about a government-minded structure. So I would argue not having it at all, but Tom Altieri was explaining why they put it in to help the advisory boards and the departments. I don't care if it's in this document. Laura Blackmon: Unless you want it each year for each advisory board to look through their objectives in their element. You'd have to do it consistently. Commissioner Carey: We could do it in a way that makes it less confusing as possible. Commissioner Gordon: Tell me again what kind of guidance it gives to the advisory boards. Tom Altieri: Let's just say the plan is adopted this year, and early next year each advisory board will be working on their list of ideas, things they'd like to accomplish over the next year, and they would be bringing that to the County Commissioners to get their marching orders for the year, and this would help focus them into certain areas if there were a timing component to each objective. By definition, an objective needs to be as time specific as possible, understanding that we would not be able to put a date or a year next to each of these objectives, this was a way that we could have some type of timing component in a general way. Michelle Kempinski: I think the original idea was to try and assign a timeframe so that they all don't get forgotten for the next 20 years, but also to help try and establish a prioritization based on the objective itself and the goal it is trying to support rather than taking it out of the context of budget, which is a reality. Chair Jacobs: So is it a time element, or is it high-priority, medium-priority, low-priority? Michelle Kempinski: I think the time element was a factor in establishing priority. Chair Jacobs: What priority is ongoing? Michelle Kempinski: I think that's a term that was used in the original and the last set of draft objectives was identified as ongoing. Chair.Jacobs: Why don't we flag it as something that we have to look at further and if you all could put it into writing on the two sides. Michelle Kempinski: I think the Board decided to leave it out. Chair Jacobs: I think stating the two cases, for and against, would be useful for us and then we could flag it as something that we could make a decision on.