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36 <br />Approved 11/5/14 <br />860 <br />Buddy Hartley: Things come up and when things come up, you contact staff and you let them know, I can’t make this <br />861 <br />meeting for whatever reason. Everyone won’t be able to always make meetings and if that happened with 3 or 4 <br />862 <br />people for the same meeting, you might not have a quorum. <br />863 <br />864 <br />Lisa Stuckey: It’s not a regularly scheduled meeting for us, it’s an odd meeting and I think that’s part of the problem <br />865 <br />and it’s on a Monday instead of Wednesday when we normally meet. Honestly when you’re talking about going to <br />866 <br />more meeting I wonder how many Planning Board members can really go to those neighborhood meetings. <br />867 <br />868 <br />Perdita Holtz: I’m a little fuzzy on a certain aspect of what you’ve discussed tonight; I hear that you want to attend <br />869 <br />the public hearing whether those are quorumed or not quorumed that you want to attend to hear the public. <br />870 <br />871 <br />Lisa Stuckey: But if they change it and they’re doing it six or eight times a year, are we really committed to that? <br />872 <br />I would be extremely skeptical. <br />873 <br />874 <br />Perdita Holtz: That is a question at this time, I don’t really think they are going to be changing the frequency but <br />875 <br />that’s just my feeling from what we’ve heard. <br />876 <br />877 <br />Bonnie Hammersley: I will support Perdita on that. One of the things we have isfor theNovember 24quarterly <br />th <br />878 <br />public hearing we don’t have any agenda items and so it’s difficult to try to justify adding more meetings so right now I <br />879 <br />don’t see that being the will ofthe Board to change it. <br />880 <br />881 <br />Perdita Holtz: I hear that you want to attend the public hearing what I’m fuzzy on is I’ve also heard that you want to <br />882 <br />do public meeting where the public can come to the Planning Board meeting and comment beforehand. There would <br />883 <br />be an official agenda item, we would send out notices to any affected property owners and they could come and talk <br />884 <br />with you. At that point, would you all make a recommendation at that Planning Board meeting and then attend the <br />885 <br />public hearing or do you still want to wait to make the recommendation after the public hearing? We’re just talking <br />886 <br />about legislative not quasi-judicial for this. What I am trying to clear on, because I have to write something up for the <br />887 <br />BOCC, is you want to attend the public hearing and you also want to have a pre-meeting where the public can come <br />888 <br />and attend. If it involved a piece of property the public is going to get mailed notices and we are going to put notices/ <br />889 <br />a sign saying come to the Planning Board meeting and let them know what you think. At that meeting will you all <br />890 <br />make a recommendation prior to the public hearing or do you want to wait until after the public hearing to make a <br />891 <br />recommendation? <br />892 <br />893 <br />Pete Hallenbeck: I think we can no more guarantee we can make a recommendation than the Commissioners can <br />894 <br />guarantee they can make a decision at the quarterly public hearing much as happened with the solar project. I think <br />895 <br />the best the Planning Board can do is to provide feedback based on our knowledge on the communities we come <br />896 <br />from and maybe comment on what people say and yes there is a bit of a challenge there because there may be time <br />897 <br />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 <br />898 <br />other than thank you for the input. <br />899 <br />900 <br />Perdita Holtz: So after the public hearing you want to make a recommendation still so my concern is that on <br />901 <br />legislative items, that do not have a neighborhood information meeting, you are now adding an additional meeting <br />902 <br />before the public hearing that is going to make the process longer. I want to make sure that. <br />903 <br />904 <br />Pete Hallenbeck: I don’t think I was saying it that way. <br />905 <br />906 <br />Perdita Holtz: You’re having a Planning Board meeting that we are going to send out notices. <br />907 <br />908 <br />Craig Benedict: We’ll send out the letter out and decide. <br />909 <br />910 <br />Perdita Holtz: No, they’re saying they don’t want to decide, I know that is what we talked about two weeks ago but <br />911 <br />this is not what’s being talked about tonight. They want to wait to decide until after the public hearing. <br />912 <br />17 <br /> <br />