Agenda - 05-17-2016 - 5-a - Minutes

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10 1 2 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 3 4 6-e. BOCC Rules of Procedure Revision 5 The Board will consider approving a modification to the Board of County Commissioners 6 (BOCC) Rules of Procedure to move the Consent portion of the agenda to immediately follow 7 Petitions by Board Members. 8 Commissioner Rich pulled this item, and said there was a discussion with Commissioner 9 Burroughs who had proposed it. 10 Commissioner Rich said she did not like the way it was written in the abstract and was 11 provided with alternate options by staff. She said Option A is in the agenda packet, and 12 Options B-D are at the Commissioners' places. 13 Commissioner Rich said she prefers Option D, as it puts items that involve, or honor, 14 residents first. She said she does not support pulling items from the consent agenda, and 15 adding them to the regular agenda. She said she would like to see the consent agenda 16 completed before moving on. 17 Commissioner Burroughs said her intent in moving the consent agenda was to avoid 18 having department directors sitting in the audience for hours, waiting to see if their item is 19 pulled off the consent agenda for further discussion. 20 Commissioner Burroughs said she served on a previous elected board, which always 21 did consent at the beginning of the meeting. She said her proposed process would take a 22 nominal amount of time, and then the meeting can move on to Proclamations, etc. 23 Commissioner Burroughs said it is an easy thing to do for staff, as references to quality 24 life. She said she prefers option B or C. 25 Commissioner Price said the general public would not want to sit through a consent 26 agenda and staff knows that this is part of their job. She said that proclamations, resolutions, 27 etc., should come first. 28 Commissioner Burroughs said the Board would not deliberate on a consent agenda item 29 at the start of the meeting. She said rather items to be pulled, would be pulled, the rest of the 30 agenda voted upon, and the pulled items discussed later at the start of the regular agenda. 31 Commissioner Rich said items are put on the consent agenda because they have been 32 seen before, or require little or no discussion. She said it is the responsibility of the Manager to 33 handle staff issues and needs. She said the responsibility of the Board is to the residents. 34 Commissioner Jacobs said there have been issues in the past about what belongs on 35 the consent agenda and this item does not belong on the consent agenda. He said years ago, 36 public items were moved to the front of the agenda. He said the current agenda structure is the 37 most efficient and effective, and it is up to the Manager whether or not her staff needs to be 38 here. He likes for staff to be here to know what is going on in Orange County government. 39 Commissioner Pelissier said there were recent meetings where a lot of time was spent 40 on public items, but in the end she is comfortable leaving the structure of the agenda as it is 41 since there is a timeframe to resolve any questions/concerns prior to the meeting on consent 42 agenda items. She does not want to elevate the consent agenda to a heightened position. 43 Chair McKee said he sees Option D as a good compromise, if there is a change at all. 44 He said he does not want to split the consent agenda. He said there is always the flexibility to 45 move up an item in a given meeting, for that meeting only. 46 Commissioner Rich said she is not convinced that there should be any change. 47 48 A motion was made by Commissioner Dorosin, seconded by Commissioner Burroughs 49 to adopt Option D (below). 50 10