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16 1 Carla Banks' role to be. She said she does not want to micro-manage the PAO. She 2 said there is a feeling that the Board does not have a connection to Carla Banks, and 3 she is the voice of the Board of County Commissioners. She said there needs to be 4 some dialogue. 5 Commissioner Price said that emergencies fall under Emergency Services or the 6 Sheriff, and what Carla Banks did was supportive and should be commended. 7 She said her concerns with regard to image, were just that she wanted input into 8 the final design. 9 Chair Jacobs said there is just not good communication between the Board of 10 County Commissioners and the PAO. He said he used the tweets as an example. 11 He said when the Board passes a resolution about the logo, and then it does not get put 12 into the logo presentation, he gets the message that there is a dis-connect. 13 Chair Jacobs said that Commissioner Price had volunteered to work with PAO 14 on the logo. He said this is a new department, and there needs to be a pathway. He 15 said there is no mechanism for the Chair to sit down with PAO. He asked Carla Banks 16 to look at the purpose to determine how she would feed the Board of County 17 Commissioners into the process. 18 Chair Jacobs said this issue is structural and not personal. 19 Commissioner Gordon said it is important to do the strategic communications 20 plan and it is clear this will not be done tonight. She said the current plan from 1999 has 21 a paragraph under press releases that should be in the new plan. She read it as 22 follows. "The staff should develop and implement methods for addressing fast breaking 23 and/or potentially controversial public relations issues in a timely manner so that the 24 County can be in a position to anticipate these situations and respond with an 25 appropriate message quickly and effectively when dealing with matters that are 26 controversial or fast breaking." 27 She said there is also some good language in the current plan regarding 28 coordination related to emergency services, and she thought it should be included in the 29 new plan. She reviewed this language which said that there should be an "action plan 30 for communications between and among the county departments, other governmental 31 agencies, the media, and the public in times of crisis, such as natural disasters, 32 evacuations, and other emergency situations. 33 Commissioner Gordon said that stating the intent to hire a public relations 34 specialist should not be part of the plan. Instead, that is a method to implement the plan 35 and should be part of the budget process. She said there needs to be a high priority on 36 developing a strategic communications plan that takes into account the Board of County 37 Commissioners' role. She said there is a difference between micro-management and 38 having a high priority on the Board's role in setting policy. She said she believes the 39 Board does not want to micro-manage but there is a desire to have a high level of 40 control with regard to County's image. 41 Commissioner Gordon said she has a concern with the logo because it is difficult 42 to tell what the central figure in the logo is supposed to mean, and she feels it needs to 43 be re-done. 44 Chair Jacobs suggested Carla Banks discuss with the Chair and Vice Chair how 45 to re-shape this and to bring this back at the next agenda review. 46 47 Closed Session: 48 49 A motion was made by Commissioner Gordon, seconded by Commissioner 50 McKee to go into closed session at 10:10pm for the purpose of: 51 To consider the qualifications, competence, performance, character, fitness, 52 conditions of appointment, or conditions of initial employment of an individual public 53 officer or employee or prospective public officer or employee; or to hear or investigate a