Agenda 10-01-19 Item 8-a - Minutes

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2 1 fourth and final budget work session on June 9, 2019 when the Board would make decisions on 2 proposed amendments and the budget as a whole and also adopt its Resolution of Intent to 3 Adopt the Budget. 4 5 Discussion of the 2020 proposed calendar will provide the opportunity for the Board to review the 6 meeting schedule for the entire year as well as the proposed budget public hearing schedule and 7 any other related issues. It should also be noted that after the Manager presents the 8 Recommended Budget on May 5t", all proposed amendments from Board members and staff will 9 be compiled, posted and updated on a continual basis on the County's website. This effort will 10 inform the public on the proposed amendments and provide interested individuals and 11 organizations sufficient time to prepare for making comments at the public hearings and/or share 12 any comments with the Board via electronic or other means. 13 14 Commissioner Dorosin said he is concerned about the "bunching" up of meetings in the 15 spring, and suggested moving a meeting back to March. He said 6 meetings in a month seems 16 excessive. He said meeting in the fourth week of June is also an option, as the calendar looks 17 excessively cramped in May and exceptionally light in February and March. He said having 18 meetings so close together is overwhelming to the public. 19 Commissioner Price agreed with Commissioner Dorosin. 20 Commissioner Marcoplos said there is a pace and rhythm to the budget season, which is 21 driven by how the staff can work most efficiently through the various components of the budget. 22 He said this is the important part of the process. 23 David Hunt, Deputy Clerk, said the school meeting in April is a pre-budget related 24 meeting, and moving this earlier may not work well. 25 Commissioner Greene said though it is great to have the budget signed off on earlier in 26 June, she agreed with Commissioner Dorosin about spreading things out a bit more. She would 27 like the public to have more time to digest the budget, and bring forward its comments. 28 Bonnie Hammersley said staff will defer to the will of the Board, just as long as the budget 29 is adopted by the end of June. 30 Commissioner McKee said he has no problem with moving some of these meetings 31 around, but he has served on the Board when it held 60 meetings a year, which he did not find 32 oppressive. He said he would have a problem in reducing the number of meetings any further, 33 and there is only one week in April that has more than 2 meetings. 34 Commissioner Price asked if the April 23 work session could be moved to March. 35 Bonnie Hammersley said staff would work on the schedule. 36 Donna Baker said the calendar must be completed by the end of the year, but she prefers 37 to have it done no later than the second meeting in October. 38 39 2. Presentation Regarding the Potential Regulation of the Discharge of Firearms in 40 Areas of the County with High Residential Unit Density 41 42 John Roberts presented this item: 43 44 PURPOSE: To receive a presentation from the County Attorney and discuss options related to 45 the potential regulation of firearms discharge in limited urbanized areas of the County. 46 47 BACKGROUND: This issue was briefly discussed by the County's Firearms Safety Committee at 48 its meetings a few years ago. However, those discussions did not result in any substantive 49 recommendations on this specific issue to the Board of Commissioners in the Committee's final 50 recommendations. The Committee did recommend that the Orange County Code of 51 Ordinances be amended to: a) prohibit the discharge of firearms while an individual is impaired;