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18 <br /> 1. For Board and staff to discuss eliminating the practice of attributing planning <br /> efforts to specific Board members <br /> Excerpt from the December 13, 2016 APPROVED BOCC Meeting Minutes <br /> • Announcements and Petitions by Board Members <br /> Commissioner Jacobs petitioned to eliminate the practice of attributing planning efforts <br /> to particular Commissioners in the abstracts. <br /> Commissioner Jacobs said he brought this up, and he does not think it should be an <br /> abstract, as to who made the petition about a particular issue. He said it is fine to leave it in <br /> the minutes, but do not add to it an abstract. <br /> A motion was made by Commissioner Burroughs, seconded by Commissioner Jacobs <br /> to adopt a policy to take attribution out of abstracts and keep it in the minutes. <br /> Bonnie Hammersley clarified when staff writes an abstract that may be related to a <br /> Commissioners petition, staff will not use individual names, but rather will state, "the Board <br /> requested." <br /> Chair Dorosin said yes. <br /> VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br /> 2. Commissioner Jacobs asked if the Chair and Vice Chair would come back with a <br /> clarification of policy about having the BOCC represented on other boards, in <br /> positions that require an elected official. <br /> Excerpt from the December 13, 2016 APPROVED BOCC Meeting Minutes <br /> • Announcements and Petitions by Board Members <br /> Commissioner Jacobs asked if the Chair and Vice Chair would come back with a <br /> clarification of policy about having the BOCC represented on other boards, in positions that <br /> require an elected official (as well as other elected officials serving on BOCC advisory boards, <br /> but who are not members of the BOCC-separate item below). <br /> Chair Dorosin said this is related to delegating a seat, which is assigned to the Board of <br /> County Commissioners, to a non-Commissioner delegate. He asked if the Board wants to <br /> require a Commissioner sit on a board that is assigned to a Commissioner, or can the spot be <br /> delegated to another person. <br /> Commissioner Rich asked Commissioner Jacobs if he remembers to what this was in <br /> reference to. <br /> Commissioner Jacobs said he did not. <br /> Commissioner Rich said she wondered if it pertains to a former Commissioner who may <br /> still be representing the Board in one of the aforementioned seats. <br /> Chair Dorosin said there is a difference between a delegate being a County staff <br /> person versus a member of the general public. <br /> Commissioner Jacobs said the difficulty is that people who represent the BOCC on <br /> boards never report back to the Board of County Commissioners. He said there has not been <br /> a successful mechanism to loop people in. <br /> Commissioner McKee said he does not want to limit the Board's options, and there are <br /> situations where it works extremely well, such as with Pam Hemminger who represented the <br />