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47 Approved 12/3/14 484 Perdita Holtz: You normally don’t see the application until it goes out in the quarterly public hearing materials now. 485 We are 99.99% sure we are adding the neighborhood informational meeting 45 days ahead of time. 486 487 Buddy Hartley: I think it is fine to make it before. Basically we see if everything meets the criteria and we make the 488 recommendation. 489 490 James Lea: Item one I would say Iwould say yes and item number two I would say before and item three I don’t 491 know. 492 493 Laura Nicholson: Yes on item one, before on item two, I just think we have a responsibility to our townships, the only 494 way we could influence or affect anything is before. 495 496 Tony Blake: We are not really making a recommendation but making a suggestion. I wouldn’t mind having the 497 opportunity of making a recommendation. I would also like to say that the Planning Boardneeds to know about this 498 stuff earlier in the process sothat when someone puts a sign out there and we get a call from someone in the 499 community we don’t have to say we don’t know what you are talking about. 500 501 Perdita Holtz: One of the things we could institute as part of the neighborhood information process is to email you all 502 the notice that is going out to the public. 503 504 Tony Blake: Even some more background on the project. 505 506 Perdita Holtz: I think there will start being information on the website and we can provide a link. 507 508 Tony Blake: Question one, yes; question two before; question three I think we need more information earlier. 509 510 Lydia Wegman: I do think the Planning Boardshould be making recommendations on quasi-judicial matters and I do 511 think the recommendation should occur before the public hearing along the lines of what we are talking about. I am 512 concerned about having an informed recommendation. There needs to be a process between the Neighborhood 513 Information Meetingand the public hearing for the Planning Boardto make a recommendation. The only concern I 514 have about the Planning Boardnot being at the public hearing is if the BOCC should want to take more time to 515 consider and continue the public hearing so if the BOCC wanted the Planning Boardto offer more input subsequent, 516 there would need tobe a way for the Planning Boardmembers to hear what went on at the public hearing. 517 518 Perdita Holtz: There have always been issues where some people make it to the public hearing but the same people 519 don’t make it to the Planning Boardmeeting. 520 521 Lisa Stuckey: I don’t think we should make recommendations. I don’t think going through that process up until now 522 has beenproductive, we rely on staff if they meet all the requirements, we have to recommend it be approved. It 523 seems a very artificial process. The real thing happens at the public hearing. 524 525 Paul Guthrie: Could a member or members of this group that have discussed this prior to any of the formal legal 526 steps be subpoenaed by the applicant to testify at the hearing. 527 528 James Bryan: Yes. It is very rare but the chair gets to decide and you get to appeal that to the whole Boardand they 529 have subpoena power and if you don’t show up, the Court of Justice can require you to get a contempt of court. 530 531 Tony Blake: Can we be deposed in the legal sense? 532 533 James Bryan: The subpoena will most likely require you to show up at the hearing and they you will be ask 534 questions. 535 536 Bonnie Hammersley: I wanted to say on behalf of the County Board of Commissioners that on the 24there isnot th 537 going to be a quarterly public hearing because there aren’tany items and alsonodinner because there is no 10