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Buddy Hartley: Things come up and when things come up, you contact staff and you let them know, I can’t make this 860 meeting for whatever reason. Everyone won’t be able to always make meetings and if that happened with 3 or 4 861 people for the same meeting, you might not have a quorum. 862 863 Lisa Stuckey: It’s not a regularly scheduled meeting for us, it’s an odd meeting and I think that’s part of the problem 864 and it’s on a Monday instead of Wednesday when we normally meet. Honestly when you’re talking about going to 865 more meeting I wonder how many Planning Board members can really go to those neighborhood meetings. 866 867 Perdita Holtz: I’m a little fuzzy on a certain aspect of what you’ve discussed tonight; I hear that you want to attend 868 the public hearing whether those are quorumed or not quorumed that you want to attend to hear the public. 869 870 Lisa Stuckey: But if they change it and they’re doing it six or eight times a year, are we really committed to that? 871 I would be extremely skeptical. 872 873 Perdita Holtz: That is a question at this time, I don’t really think they are going to be changing the frequency but 874 that’s just my feeling from what we’ve heard. 875 876 Bonnie Hammersley: I will support Perdita on that. One of the things we have is for the November 24th quarterly 877 public hearing we don’t have any agenda items and so it’s difficult to try to justify adding more meetings so right now I 878 don’t see that being the will of the Board to change it. 879 880 Perdita Holtz: I hear that you want to attend the public hearing what I’m fuzzy on is I’ve also heard that you want to 881 do public meeting where the public can come to the Planning Board meeting and comment beforehand. There would 882 be an official agenda item, we would send out notices to any affected property owners and they could come and talk 883 with you. At that point, would you all make a recommendation at that Planning Board meeting and then attend the 884 public hearing or do you still want to wait to make the recommendation after the public hearing? We’re just talking 885 about legislative not quasi-judicial for this. What I am trying to clear on, because I have to write something up for the 886 BOCC, is you want to attend the public hearing and you also want to have a pre-meeting where the public can come 887 and attend. If it involved a piece of property the public is going to get mailed notices and we are going to put notices/ 888 a sign saying come to the Planning Board meeting and let them know what you think. At that meeting will you all 889 make a recommendation prior to the public hearing or do you want to wait until after the public hearing to make a 890 recommendation? 891 892 Pete Hallenbeck: I think we can no more guarantee we can make a recommendation than the Commissioners can 893 guarantee they can make a decision at the quarterly public hearing much as happened with the solar project. I think 894 the best the Planning Board can do is to provide feedback based on our knowledge on the communities we come 895 from and maybe comment on what people say and yes there is a bit of a challenge there because there may be time 896 when all we can do is except that input and frankly there won’t be a whole lot we can say that is terribly intelligent 897 other than thank you for the input. 898 899 Perdita Holtz: So after the public hearing you want to make a recommendation still so my concern is that on 900 legislative items, that do not have a neighborhood information meeting, you are now adding an additional meeting 901 before the public hearing that is going to make the process longer. I want to make sure that. 902 903 Pete Hallenbeck: I don’t think I was saying it that way. 904 905 Perdita Holtz: You’re having a Planning Board meeting that we are going to send out notices. 906 907 Craig Benedict: We’ll send out the letter out and decide. 908 909 Perdita Holtz: No, they’re saying they don’t want to decide, I know that is what we talked about two weeks ago but 910 this is not what’s being talked about tonight. They want to wait to decide until after the public hearing. 911 912 35