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Approved 11/5/14 9 with input earlier, we can get a better feel of what is going on. The Commissioners can see that when they read the 431 minutes and I think those are ways the Planning Board can be more engaged than it is now. 432 433 Bryant Warren: The problem with that is they want to meet with the top people and by having a joint public hearing 434 appearing with both then they are both getting the information and people are showing up for it. 435 436 Pete Hallenbeck: I wouldn’t be surprised if it continues in the same way but I also don’t want to penalize people who 437 want to learn how the systems works and try to get the most out of it. So if they have a 45 day notice and they come 438 to the Planning Board and they’re organized and they come to us and say here’s the concern and talk about it then 439 the Commissioners can read it. That’s the closest we’re going to come to that no-brainer crystal ball. They will be 440 much more informed, the Commissioners will, than if all this just hits them for the first time. 441 442 Bryant Warren: Right now we have one every 4 months, if it goes to every 2 months, is there not some way if we 443 need another public hearing we can call one or do we have a time frame that would keep us from doing that. 444 445 Craig Benedict: The Unified Development Ordinance does set out a public hearing specific dates of 4 a year. We 446 can amend the UDO to say there are other times we can consider amendments. As Perdita put up there, there are 447 three types of hearing, the legislative ones are typically a little bit easier. There is a good possibility we could move 448 some of those legislative items to a regular meeting and have some more opportunities for them. We know that the 449 quasi-judicial are usually the ones that are a little bit more labored because of the testimony and that would probably 450 clog up a regular meeting so having the quarterly public hearings isolated for them will probably remain a good idea. 451 We can consider regular Commission meetings to have a public hearing. 452 453 Bryant Warren: I know a lot of developers want to get it out, get it to the public, and get it back as quickly as they can 454 so they can start generating money from it. That’s probably what we’re trying to do is to accommodate some of them 455 so I don’t see anything wrong with it. 456 457 Pete Hallenbeck: We have the full spectrum of the developers would love a two month process and a lot of citizens 458 would like a nine month process. What you’re talking about with additional meetings, I know Commissioner Jacobs 459 was concerned that if you put additional public hearings on the normal Commissioner calendar, that’s where the 460 crystal ball for the no-brainers comes in. You would hate to put, for example, that solar project on the end of a 461 budget meeting cause it would take too long, you really won’t be doing the citizens any service, everybody would be 462 tired by the time it was midnight and probably wouldn’t accomplish what you wanted. If you know, that crystal ball, 463 that this was going to be a 30 minute with no problem. 464 465 Herman Staats: Pete, so I understand correctly, the process that is on the white board now, is what we currently 466 use? 467 468 Pete Hallenbeck: Correct. 469 470 Herman Staats: Am I understanding you to say that we should have an additional Planning Board meeting with the 471 public and if so where in that process do you propose to put it? 472 473 Pete Hallenbeck: The question is the first item, these quarterly public hearing are on a certain schedule but we meet 474 every month. There’s an opportunity to have that 45 day notice and have people come to a Planning Board meeting 475 and get citizen feedback quicker and then that feedback can be presented at the next available quarterly public 476 hearing it is unlikely that the Commissioners would decide at that time but that’s where the no-brainer, crystal ball 477 comes in. It is far more likely that they will take that citizen input and kick it back to the Planning Board. We would 478 also be at that meeting, however the carrot and stick approach the Commissioners work out for getting us there. 479 480 Lisa Stuckey: So if I’m a citizen and I am bringing something forward, you’re suggesting that there be a public 481 hearing in front of the Planning Board and then a public hearing in front of the Board of County Commissioners and 482 then it comes back to the Planning Board. 483 484