Agenda - 12-03-2018 8-a - Minutes

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22 1 Donna Baker said the Chair of these boards attends the annual review, but not the 2 Ombudsman, and scheduling this would likely be helpful. She said she will schedule a time. 3 4 5 2. Discussion/Decision Point: 6 --To consider the vetting of applicants for certain boards as appointments 7 come up (i.e., OWASA, BOA, Planning, ABC Board, etc.) by a committee made 8 up of BOCC members (two members) that would then make a 9 recommendation to the BOCC. 10 11 Chair Dorosin said the idea here is that there would be a sub-committee of the Board 12 that would make recommendations. 13 Commissioner McKee asked for clarification on "vetting". 14 Chair Dorosin said usually the Board gets a recommendation from an advisory board 15 and the Board of County Commissioners make the appointments. He said this would mean 16 another level of review by the Board of County Commissioners, while still having 17 recommendations from the board. He said it is a more thorough level of review prior to the 18 Board making an appointment. 19 Commissioner McKee questioned the need for another added level in the process. 20 Commissioner Rich said an example of this was when the OWASA appointment had to 21 resign, and she called everyone on the applicant listing to learn more about them, and who may 22 be the best person to represent them on the board. She said this is similar to when additional 23 questions were added to the application, and she feels that even those additional questions do 24 not always provide sufficient information. She said BOCC members are not connected to the 25 applicants. 26 Chair Dorosin asked if she could simply keep calling applicants when she wants to know 27 more. 28 Commissioner Rich said yes she could, but this is just a recommendation to find out 29 more about all applicants in a consistent way. 30 Chair Dorosin said this came up because everyone does not call applicants, and some 31 of the Board of County Commissioners felt that the recommendations from the advisory boards 32 may not be the best appointee for the Board of County Commissioners to appoint. 33 Chair Dorosin said he is loathe adding another level of bureaucracy to the process, but it 34 may be helpful to those that do not do their due diligence. He said Commissioners do not 35 always have the same information, and this suggestion seems to be a way to create a 36 consistent approach to knowing more about applicants. 37 Commissioner McKee said he does not think this suggestion will solve all of those 38 problems, and the more levels added to the application process, the more laborious it becomes, 39 and likely the fewer applicants the Board will receive. 40 Commissioner Price asked if this would only apply to the boards listed in the suggestion. 41 Chair Dorosin said it could apply to any board/commission. 42 Commissioner Price said she could see value in some of these boards having a deeper 43 dive investigation by the BOCC, but if boards are already vetting applicants she would have a 44 hard time going behind their backs and doing more vetting. She said she would favor either the 45 advisory board or the BOCC doing the vetting, but not necessarily both. 46 Chair Dorosin said the BOCC already has occasions when it rejects the 47 recommendation of the advisory board. 48 Commissioner Price said yes, and she is not left with good feelings when that happens.