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2 <br />business and summer vacation travel. I’m going to try to be here for every meeting, <br />he said, but what if one of us cannot attend a meeting? Mr. Tilley reminded the <br />group that the Committee adopted a quorum rulethat allows the Committee to <br />make decisions if at least six members are present. If this issue is important enough <br />for you to be on this Committee then you need to be here, Mr. Tilley said. Ms. <br />Barksdale agreed. <br />Mr. Tilley added that ifan absent member were taken away by important business <br />then itwould be unlikely for the member to be able to participate remotely <br />anyway. Mr. Hunnellsaid there could be instances –for example accompanying <br />someone to the hospital --where a person could be away but still able to listen to <br />the meeting remotely if such access were supported. Mr. Tesoro said he could be <br />called out of town for business after a meeting date is set,be done with his <br />business by 7pm, and then be available to participate remotely. Wouldn’t others <br />want to listen-in if they were in that situation,he asked.Mr. Webster, a police <br />officer, saidhe would not be able to listen to the Committee meeting if he were <br />called into work after aCommittee meeting time is set. <br />Mr. Webster added that he is open either way on the question, but doesn’t think <br />remote accessshould be supported. I could keep up with everything that I missed <br />from the meeting notes, he said. Dr. Arvik saidthe meeting notes are distributed <br />quickly, providing plenty of time for an absent member to respond to matters via <br />email with other members before the next meeting. Mr. Hunnellsaidremote access <br />would allow the absent member to express an opinion in real time, and so help the <br />Committee to avoid a tangent that would have to be corrected at the next meeting. <br />Ms. Barksdale saidif remote participation were not supported then absent <br />members should be allowed to express their opinion via email and/or at the next <br />meeting on matters that they had missed. Dr. Arvik saidhe did not want the <br />Committee or County to make great effortsat trying to satisfy someone who had <br />committed to participating but then could not be present. Mr. Hunnellsaidthe <br />process was progressing rapidly and perhaps will not require more than two more <br />meetings, lessening the number of times that members might need support for <br />remote access.I’ve seen remote participation supported in other contexts, he said, <br />but if it is too complicated in this context and we can all agree on future meeting <br />dates then perhaps the support is not needed for this Committee. Ms. Conti saidshe <br />did not think it necessary to go to great lengths to support remote access. The <br />notes are great, she said, and I don’t see anything that would be lost by not being <br />able to participate remotely.Mr. Hunnellsaidhe would have been disappointed if <br />he had been absent and unable to hear Chief Sykes’s and Officer Orr’s