Agenda - 11-06-2014 - 5c - Laserfiche WebLink

Browse Search

7 II 1 163 was concerned that if you put additional public hearings on the normal Commissioner calendar, that's where the 164 crystal ball for the no- brainers comes in. You would hate to put, for example, that solar project on the end of a 165 budget meeting cause it would take too long, you really won't be doing the citizens any service, everybody would be 166 tired by the time it was midnight and probably wouldn't accomplish what you wanted. If you know, that crystal ball, 167 that this was going to be a 30 minute with no problem. 168 169 Herman Staats: Pete, so I understand correctly, the process that is on the white board now, is what we currently 170 use? 171 172 Pete Hallenbeck: Correct. 173 174 Herman Staats: Am I understanding you to say that we should have an additional Planning Board meeting with the 175 public and if so where in that process do you propose to put it? 176 177 Pete Hallenbeck: The question is the first item, these quarterly public hearing are on a certain schedule but we meet 178 every month. There's an opportunity to have that 45 day notice and have people come to a Planning Board meeting 179 and get citizen feedback quicker and then that feedback can be presented at the next available quarterly public 180 hearing it is unlikely that the Commissioners would decide at that time but that's where the no- brainer, crystal ball 181 comes in. It is far more likely that they will take that citizen input and kick it back to the Planning Board. We would 182 also be at that meeting, however the carrot and stick approach the Commissioners work out for getting us there. 183 184 Lisa Stuckey: So if I'm a citizen and I am bringing something forward, you're suggesting that there be a public 185 hearing in front of the Planning Board and then a public hearing in front of the Board of County Commissioners and 186 then it comes back to the Planning Board. 187 188 Craig Benedict: Maybe it doesn't have to go here afterwards. There are differences between the legislative and 189 190 Lisa Stuckey: But wait, because they were saying they wanted to give people a third or fourth opportunity to speak 191 without question when it came back, as a former member of the school board, every time you hold a public hearing, 192 you will get people to come and the more anxious they are about the outcome, the more they will come and they the 193 longer they will talk. It is just a lot of time. I am not passing judgment on whether or not they should be allowed to, 194 it's just a tremendous amount of time for the boards. 195 196 Craig Benedict: There could be different processes for legislative versus quasi-judicial. The reason we have a 197 process now to just have written testimony after this public hearing is because you're trying to set a point in time 198 where the record is closed, let's make a decision, and if we keep on opening things up very late in the process then it 199 doesn't end. That was part of the reason, especially for quasi - judicial matters, for legislative matters, the 200 Commissioners can choose to let them hold it in three minutes, don't repeat what we've heard here. They can 201 diplomatically say that. 202 203 Lisa Stuckey: It won't work. 204 205 Craig Benedict: Also it shows in the agenda package that the Commissioners, when they have this public hearing 206 over here, they can do three things; they could close the public hearing, this is what we are suggesting as potential 207 options. They could close the public hearing this night and they can set a date to make a formal vote on it, or if it is 208 contentious they could send it back to the Planning Board to return then for a date certain, or one that has never 209 worked well in the past is they can actually decide that night, close the public hearing and say we have enough 210 testimony to decide. That has always been a lot for them but over the many years there's been a few where they 211 thought that were very simple, one was actually a school site for the Orange County school that was an SUP and 212 they needed to get it built and they wanted to approve it there but the process didn't allow them to do that at that 213 time, to vote the same night. It had to go back. 214 215 Bryant Warren: So you're talking about on the public hearing that is joint now it will not be a joint public hearing, it 216 would be just the Commissioners? m