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Approved 12/3/14 10 Perdita Holtz: You normally don’t see the application until it goes out in the quarterly public hearing materials now. 484 We are 99.99% sure we are adding the neighborhood informational meeting 45 days ahead of time. 485 486 Buddy Hartley: I think it is fine to make it before. Basically we see if everything meets the criteria and we make the 487 recommendation. 488 489 James Lea: Item one I would say I would say yes and item number two I would say before and item three I don’t 490 know. 491 492 Laura Nicholson: Yes on item one, before on item two, I just think we have a responsibility to our townships, the only 493 way we could influence or affect anything is before. 494 495 Tony Blake: We are not really making a recommendation but making a suggestion. I wouldn’t mind having the 496 opportunity of making a recommendation. I would also like to say that the Planning Board needs to know about this 497 stuff earlier in the process so that when someone puts a sign out there and we get a call from someone in the 498 community we don’t have to say we don’t know what you are talking about. 499 500 Perdita Holtz: One of the things we could institute as part of the neighborhood information process is to email you all 501 the notice that is going out to the public. 502 503 Tony Blake: Even some more background on the project. 504 505 Perdita Holtz: I think there will start being information on the website and we can provide a link. 506 507 Tony Blake: Question one, yes; question two before; question three I think we need more information earlier. 508 509 Lydia Wegman: I do think the Planning Board should be making recommendations on quasi-judicial matters and I do 510 think the recommendation should occur before the public hearing along the lines of what we are talking about. I am 511 concerned about having an informed recommendation. There needs to be a process between the Neighborhood 512 Information Meeting and the public hearing for the Planning Board to make a recommendation. The only concern I 513 have about the Planning Board not being at the public hearing is if the BOCC should want to take more time to 514 consider and continue the public hearing so if the BOCC wanted the Planning Board to offer more input subsequent, 515 there would need to be a way for the Planning Board members to hear what went on at the public hearing. 516 517 Perdita Holtz: There have always been issues where some people make it to the public hearing but the same people 518 don’t make it to the Planning Board meeting. 519 520 Lisa Stuckey: I don’t think we should make recommendations. I don’t think going through that process up until now 521 has been productive, we rely on staff if they meet all the requirements, we have to recommend it be approved. It 522 seems a very artificial process. The real thing happens at the public hearing. 523 524 Paul Guthrie: Could a member or members of this group that have discussed this prior to any of the formal legal 525 steps be subpoenaed by the applicant to testify at the hearing. 526 527 James Bryan: Yes. It is very rare but the chair gets to decide and you get to appeal that to the whole Board and they 528 have subpoena power and if you don’t show up, the Court of Justice can require you to get a contempt of court. 529 530 Tony Blake: Can we be deposed in the legal sense? 531 532 James Bryan: The subpoena will most likely require you to show up at the hearing and they you will be ask 533 questions. 534 535 Bonnie Hammersley: I wanted to say on behalf of the County Board of Commissioners that on the 24th there is not 536 going to be a quarterly public hearing because there aren’t any items and also no dinner because there is no 537