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Herman Staats: My own personal feeling about making a recommendation is what I said earlier, if you have 913 opportunity for public input but no one comes then yes we can make recommendations based on the written 914 guidelines but you still don’t have public input. So the whole goal of us discussing this tonight was to increase and 915 have a better access to public input but if they don’t come then we’re not increasing public input. I thought this whole 916 process came up of how do we get more feedback from the public and how do we get them involved. 917 918 Perdita Holtz: That’s one part of it. 919 920 Maxecine Mitchell: Right now, I’m going to go with leaving things the way they are right now. 921 922 Perdita Holtz: Increasing the public involvement, that’s certainly one part of it Herman, about increasing the public 923 involvement however, the increasing of public involvement is really pertinent to quasi-judicial matters and so I am 924 trying to nail down more of what you are all thinking about the legislative matters and we’re going to have to tackle 925 quasi-judicial at some other time. 926 927 Pete Hallenbeck: Yes, I agree, just talking legislative and I think I agree with Herman that if we can make a 928 recommendation or decision, we will but there may be circumstances where we just can’t. 929 930 Michael Harvey: Is the concern that not enough citizens are interested in showing up and you’re going to make a 931 recommendation in a vacuum. 932 933 Pete Hallenbeck: No, if nobody shows up and they have met all the requirements for what they are trying to do and it 934 meets the UDO, I say we make a decision and say yes, we’re all for this. I think the times where we wouldn’t make a 935 decision would be like the solar array. 936 937 Paul Guthrie: It’s not judicial, we’re not encumbered on that solution that we have something, nobody shows up, we 938 have a question about it, we could send that to the Commissioners and it could be incorporated in the call for the 939 public hearing. 940 941 Pete Hallenbeck: Yes, all that is possible and again it’s part of being an advisory board there 942 943 Tony Blake: Let me just suggest just opposing the whole thing for just a second here. Why not add, and I think other 944 boards have this thing that they have sort of a County Commissioner liaison. Why not require that liaison to be here 945 for quasi-judicial, no quasi-judicial right? Then they can carry that feedback back to the other County 946 Commissioners. 947 948 Pete Hallenbeck: We’re going to stick with the legislative, quasi-judicial is a very strict process. 949 950 Perdita Holtz: There are reasons there’s not a BOCC liaison for the Planning Board and I don’t think there is going to 951 be. 952 953 Pete Hallenbeck: I think the changes we’re talking about is we have the 45 days, we’re just saying let the public 954 come and present input either in writing or verbally at the Planning Board meeting that’s part of the notification they 955 get. We will discuss it there will be times when we can make a recommendation and there will be times when we’ll 956 just throw our hands up and there will probably be times when we go, we don’t really want to get near this thing and 957 we kick it back to the Commissioners. 958 959 Paul Guthrie: Would that be mandatory or just advisory? Could we simply say you may wish to come to a Planning 960 Board meeting prior to the public hearing? 961 962 Pete Hallenbeck: Yes, but part of this is to explain the process, is that exact language. You’re not required but if you 963 care to this is great as it gives us better input sooner, the Commissioners read your feedback before the quarterly 964 public hearing. That explanation should enough to let a citizen realize how the process works. 965 966 36