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15 II 1 593 make a recommendation prior to the public hearing or do you want to wait until after the public hearing to make a 594 recommendation? 595 596 Pete Hallenbeck: I think we can no more guarantee we can make a recommendation than the Commissioners can 597 guarantee they can make a decision at the quarterly public hearing much as happened with the solar project. I think 598 the best the Planning Board can do is to provide feedback based on our knowledge on the communities we come 599 from and maybe comment on what people say and yes there is a bit of a challenge there because there may be time 600 when all we can do is except that input and frankly there won't be a whole lot we can say that is terribly intelligent 601 other than thank you for the input. 602 603 Perdita Holtz: So after the public hearing you want to make a recommendation still so my concern is that on 604 legislative items, that do not have a neighborhood information meeting, you are now adding an additional meeting 605 before the public hearing that is going to make the process longer. I want to make sure that. 606 607 Pete Hallenbeck: I don't think I was saying it that way. 608 609 Perdita Holtz: You're having a Planning Board meeting that we are going to send out notices. 610 611 Craig Benedict: We'll send out the letter out and decide. 612 613 Perdita Holtz: No, they're saying they don't want to decide, I know that is what we talked about two weeks ago but 614 this is not what's being talked about tonight. They want to wait to decide until after the public hearing. 615 616 Herman Staats: My own personal feeling about making a recommendation is what I said earlier, if you have 617 opportunity for public input but no one comes then yes we can make recommendations based on the written 618 guidelines but you still don't have public input. So the whole goal of us discussing this tonight was to increase and 619 have a better access to public input but if they don't come then we're not increasing public input. I thought this whole 620 process came up of how do we get more feedback from the public and how do we get them involved. 621 622 Perdita Holtz: That's one part of it. 623 624 Maxecine Mitchell: Right now, I'm going to go with leaving things the way they are right now. 625 626 Perdita Holtz: Increasing the public involvement, that's certainly one part of it Herman, about increasing the public 627 involvement however, the increasing of public involvement is really pertinent to quasi-judicial matters and so I am 628 trying to nail down more of what you are all thinking about the legislative matters and we're going to have to tackle 629 quasi-judicial at some other time. 630 631 Pete Hallenbeck: Yes, I agree, just talking legislative and I think I agree with Herman that if we can make a 632 recommendation or decision, we will but there may be circumstances where we just can't. 633 634 Michael Harvey: Is the concern that not enough citizens are interested in showing up and you're going to make a 635 recommendation in a vacuum. 636 637 Pete Hallenbeck: No, if nobody shows up and they have met all the requirements for what they are trying to do and it 638 meets the UDO, I say we make a decision and say yes, we're all for this. I think the times where we wouldn't make a 639 decision would be like the solar array. 640 641 Paul Guthrie: It's not judicial, we're not encumbered on that solution that we have something, nobody shows up, we 642 have a question about it, we could send that to the Commissioners and it could be incorporated in the call for the 643 public hearing. 644 645 Pete Hallenbeck: Yes, all that is possible and again it's part of being an advisory board there 646 12