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Approved 12/3/14 8 James Bryan: Every jurisdiction is different. This place has a lot of educated folks and a lot of money which is 377 different than others that don’t have those things. 378 379 Maxecine Mitchell: We are pretty much serving as a double check to the staff to make sure the applicant did 380 everything according to the rules and laws of the County who, if they meet them and let them move forward so if a 381 project happens in my area, I can know and prepare my neighbors. 382 383 Michael Harvey: Staff is preparing a script based on the evidence entered into the record and testimony at the 384 hearing. Some items are based soley on the testimony of the public hearing. 385 386 Bryant Warren: Being on the Hillsborough Planning Board, this is totally different. We met then the Planning Board 387 met and made recommendations. This sounds different and if we are not going to be in the public hearing, just the 388 BOCC, then they will have the final say then there is nothing we can do about it. We can have an information 389 meeting prior to that. I don’t really see any place for a Planning Board in this process. 390 391 Perdita Holtz: Special Use Permits applications will have a Neighborhood Information Meeting 45 days ahead of the 392 public hearing. 393 394 Bryant Warren: What about having that informational meeting at the Planning Board meeting and let them be there. 395 396 Perdita Holtz: We will look at that but sometimes the way the schedule works in quarters and having ORC Ordinance 397 Review meetings sometimes, we might not be able to do everything in one night. There can be a scheduling difficulty 398 when you have more than one meeting. 399 400 James Lea: It sounds like there is plus to making recommendations or just having quasi-judicial meetings. 401 402 Tony Blake: In this way our role is to inform more than represent. 403 404 Perdita Holtz: Should that pre-meeting with the Planning Board be the Neighborhood Information Meeting together? 405 406 Lisa Stuckey: In these cases, the folks are hiring lawyers so this is more expense to them. Maybe the lawyer is at 407 the neighborhood meeting and then to our meeting and then they will do the public hearing. 408 409 Lydia Wegman: In your list you say if the Planning Board continues to make a recommendation so are you assuming 410 there is a room as a legal matter to make a recommendation if the Planning Board meeting occurs before the 411 meeting of the BOCC? 412 413 James Lea: It sounds like we are not making recommendations. 414 415 James Bryan: You have the public hearing. The first person to speak is staff who introduces it, reviewing the packet, 416 and one item will be the Planning Board recommendation. 417 418 Lydia Wegman: The Planning Board could hear whatever we are hearing from the public from the applicant and 419 make a recommendation prior to the public hearing that would go into the record that the BOCC would consider? 420 421 James Bryan: Right. The BOCC can’t make a decision based on that recommendation. But it could prompt them to 422 ask the right questions. 423 424 Tony Blake: Wouldn’t staff do that anyway? 425 426 Paul Guthrie: Prior to the formal legal hearing, could this group discuss the project and appear as a witness for 427 information at the legal hearing? 428 429 James Bryan: It depends on the facts but in general, no. I would object. 430