Agenda - 03-07-2017 - 6-a - Minutes

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21 1 Chair Dorosin said if having an order is important, then the Board should look at how the 2 order can be rearranged to make more sense. 3 Commissioner McKee said line staff could be sitting for hours, if the consent agenda is 4 moved down. 5 Bonnie Hammersley said she could answer most questions that may come up in a 6 consent agenda, and anything that she could not answer could be brought back at a later time. 7 She is always willing to cover for staff if necessary. 8 Commissioner McKee said he is good with that. 9 Chair Dorosin said the Board has been good about flagging things through emails prior 10 to meetings. 11 Commissioner Marcoplos said to do a trial run, and then reevaluate. 12 Commissioner Burroughs said on another elected board, on which she served, the 13 agenda was changed all the time, and she is in favor of giving the Chair/Vice Chair the flexibility 14 to make a call if needed. 15 Commissioner Jacobs said it would solve a problem of what belongs on consent or not. 16 He said if there was a consent item of particular interest to the public, the Chair/Vice Chair 17 could move it to the regular agenda. 18 Commissioner Rich said additions and changes to the agenda would give the option of 19 changing the agenda. 20 Chair Dorosin said he is convinced that there should be structure, but with retained 21 flexibility. 22 Commissioner Rich said to move the regular agenda (item 7) before the consent 23 agenda (item 6). 24 Chair Dorosin said petitions could be moved to the end, move announcements to the 25 beginning and petitions to the end. 26 Commissioner Jacobs asked if there is an opportunity to discuss responses to petitions 27 at meetings. He said this information is typically only sent in a letter, and there is no discussion. 28 He said he liked having petitions at the beginning, as it allows concerns to be raised while 29 people's attention is fresh. He said sometimes this is just posturing, but sometimes items of 30 great concern are shared. He said if comments are wasted at the end of the meeting, due to 31 no one listening, then petitions would be wasted there as well. 32 Commissioner Burroughs clarified that the proposal is to put comments at the beginning 33 of a meeting. 34 Commissioner Rich said no, announcements only. 35 Commissioner Price asked if it is wise to have announcements and petitions at the 36 same time, as it would take up a lot of time. She agreed with Commissioner Jacobs. 37 Chair Dorosin said it is not fair to say that petitions are made and then not discussed 38 again. He said many petitions turn into future agenda items, where they are discussed in full. 39 Commissioner Marcoplos said to try it out with some flexibility, and if there are some hot 40 topic issues, to move them up and see how it goes. 41 Commissioner McKee said the Board very seldom uses more than 10-15 minutes for 42 petitions as a group. He suggested keeping petitions and announcements where they are. 43 Commissioner Jacobs said there is never a public component for petition responses. 44 Commissioner Jacobs said if all Commissioners agree to keep 45 petitions/comments/announcements at three minutes, then he would be in favor of keeping the 46 agenda as it is. He said the Chair or Vice Chair should be empowered to keep track of the 47 time, and cut Commissioners off when time is up. 48 John Roberts said the BOCC rules require the Board make rule amendments at a 49 regular meeting.