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D R A F T 7 325 Lisa Stuckey: If we don’t have a quorum and we come back to our meeting, are we allowed to go forward with the 326 checklist? If a quorum of the Planning Board is not required at the public hearing, can we proceed? 327 328 Lydia Wegman: What would be the role of the Planning Board after the public hearing? 329 330 James Bryan: From a legal standpoint, the public hearing, as the trial, once that is closed, there will be no other 331 comments considered by the Board except for the Board talking among themselves and to their attorney. My belief 332 now is the current process, if we have a written comment after the hearing is closed, it should not be considered from 333 a legal perspective. 334 335 Lydia Wegman: The way it is set up now, any comment that comes in after the public hearing are a problem? 336 337 James Bryan: Yes. 338 339 Lydia Wegman: Your concern is whatever comments are coming in have to come in at the public hearing or before 340 the public hearing? 341 342 James Bryan: At the public hearing, at the trial because everything the Board hears, all the parties, which is a legal 343 term, anything the Board hears, I get to hear it being spoken to them, I get to question whoever speaks it to the 344 Board. 345 346 Paul Guthrie: Does that also preclude the BOCC in considering the trial of discussing it? You used the analogy of 347 the jury system. A jury can discuss in its own quarters. Who is the jury? 348 349 James Bryan: The BOCC. After the public hearing is closed, the only words they can hear are what they heard at 350 the hearing. As a practice, in some jurisdictions, there is no planning board meeting. Other jurisdictions have it set 351 up where it goes to the planning board first and they have a mock hearing. A dry run. 352 353 Lydia Wegman: Also an opportunity for citizenry to have information about what is required. 354 355 James Bryan: Every jurisdiction is different. This place has a lot of educated folks and a lot of money which is 356 different than others that don’t have those things. 357 358 Maxecine Mitchell: We are pretty much serving as a double check to the staff to make sure the applicant did 359 everything according to the rules and laws of the County who, if they meet them and let them move forward so if a 360 project happens in my area, I can know and prepare my neighbors. 361 362 Michael Harvey: Staff is preparing a script based on the evidence entered into the record and testimony at the 363 hearing. Some items are based soley on the testimony of the public hearing. 364 365 Bryant Warren: Being on the Hillsborough Planning Board, this is totally different. We met then the Planning Board 366 met and made recommendations. This sounds different and if we are not going to be in the public hearing, just the 367 BOCC, then they will have the final say then there is nothing we can do about it. We can have an information 368 meeting prior to that. I don’t really see any place for a Planning Board in this process. 369 370 Perdita Holtz: Special Use Permits applications will have a Neighborhood Information Meeting 45 days ahead of the 371 public hearing. 372 373 Bryant Warren: What about having that informational meeting at the Planning Board meeting and let them be there. 374 375 Perdita Holtz: We will look at that but sometimes the way the schedule works in quarters and having ORC Ordinance 376 Review meetings sometimes, we might not be able to do everything in one night. There can be a scheduling difficulty 377 when you have more than one meeting. 378 11