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to the meeting and for whatever reason, and things do come up last minute but there just isn’t a quorum. I don’t 807 know what other process we can do to fix that. 808 809 Tony Blake: Send the Orange bus. 810 811 Maxecine Mitchell: For me, I know we get a copy of the calendar every month, I put it on my personal calendar and 812 an alarm goes off and I say hey you’ve got a meeting. I don’t care if it’s an hour before, I’ll throw on my clothes and 813 get up here because I’ve made up in my mind I’m committed and I know it’s part of my responsibility on the Board. If 814 something comes up, an emergency, the first thing I try to do, I’m calling from South Carolina when my sister passed 815 away to say she passed I can’t make it. Things like that, you can’t help but if you’re here you should be making it to 816 the meeting. I think it doesn’t have to be a rule we just have to be committed and show up unless it is out of our 817 control. 818 819 Laura Nicholson: I just think if the quorum isn’t a rule then we’re making ourselves seem less important. Like we 820 can’t make it to a quorum, we’ve already embarrassed ourselves by not being there so let’s just not hold ourselves 821 accountable and I think we should hold ourselves accountable by saying there has to be a quorum. 822 823 Pete Hallenbeck: If the quorum requirement were effective, we would never have not had a quorum and I see this as 824 the price of failure of value of success and the price of failure having the quorum is we hold up the public. The value 825 of success is we have a quorum, the meeting starts but after that I don’t see a lot of difference because the 826 Commissioners can still ask our opinion and we are still there to get input. I think that’s why I come down on the side 827 of dropping the quorum requirement. It’s just that simple weighing of the price of failure and the value of success. I 828 don’t see any difference in the outcome. 829 830 Tony Blake: What’s the reason for the joint meeting? 831 832 Pete Hallenbeck: I think Laura’s right on the money, it does bring the Planning Board out, it makes it part of the 833 process, it give value to it, adds importance to it. By the same reason if we don’t show up it makes it look like the 834 Planning Board isn’t important it doesn’t care and the people are not there and you’re holding up the citizens. 835 836 Laura Nicholson: Is it possible that it was a communication issue, so for example, I knew I was going to be ten 837 minutes late so I emailed Tina but I don’t know if she got my email so maybe it’s that we need cell phone numbers of 838 staff so that we can call people and say hey, I’m going to be late or this came up or maybe it’s just because I’m new. 839 840 Tina Love: One other thing we need is alternative numbers, cell phone numbers for Planning Board. 841 842 Laura Nicholson: So I see it as a communication issue that is holding up the quorum process and if we just over 843 communicate rather than under communicate it will solve itself. 844 845 Perdita Holtz: It really wasn’t the issue of someone being ten minutes late and calling. It was people having full 846 calendars and just not making it to the meeting. 847 848 Laura Nicholson: And they don’t know that in advance? 849 850 Perdita Holtz: I don’t want to speculate on when people know in advance. 851 852 Laura Nicholson: I’m new so I can’t comment but to me it seems simple you’re supposed to be there, you’re there 853 and if you’re not you tell somebody. 854 855 Perdita Holtz: That’s a wonderful outlook. 856 857 Pete Hallenbeck: Sometimes just the ebb and flow of life just doesn’t work out. 858 859 34