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9 <br /> <br />Budget. The Board would officially approve the budget at the proposed June 23, 2020 <br />Regular Meeting. <br /> <br />David Hunt, Deputy Clerk, said he summarized the first six months of the two options <br />based on the comments from the last meeting, and the attempt was to spread out the <br />meetings. He said the revised schedule moves a meeting from April to March, and they tried <br />to shift others to avoid having more than two meetings a week. He said no meetings were <br />added or removed, just shifted. <br />Chair Rich asked if the net effect is that it just forces the Board to go a week later. <br />She said the April 23rd meeting has been moved to March, and the meetings in June go a bit <br />longer, finishing on the 23rd. <br />David Hunt said by moving the April meeting to March, it spreads the budget meetings <br />over 16 weeks, with one meeting each week. He said Option 1 offers 11 weeks in a row with <br />at least one meeting per week, and some other weeks with a higher concentration of <br />meetings. <br />Commissioner Price said she likes moving the April meeting to March, but would like <br />to keep the May and June meetings as they are, and suggested a hybrid schedule of Options <br />1 and 2. <br />Commissioner Marcoplos said he likes Option 1, and sees nothing gained by delaying <br />it for a week. <br />Commissioner McKee said he prefers Option 1; the number of meetings is still the <br />same, and the Board needs to be judicious with its time. <br />Commissioner Bedford said it does not really matter to her, but likes Commissioner <br />Price’s hybrid of moving the April meeting to March. <br />Commissioner Dorosin said that looking at the list of considerations, having one <br />meeting per week for 16 weeks does not matter. He said the penultimate bullet is of greatest <br />concern to him. He said Option 2 provides a longer timeframe for the budget, allowing for <br />more discussion and deliberation. He said the Board hears from the public that the process <br />has seemed rushed, and there was not enough information. He said this is a real <br />consideration, and school ending should not matter with the budget. He agreed that having a <br />longer timeframe is better, and he asked if amendments will be done differently this time. <br />Bonnie Hammersley said both options include a public hearing after the amendments <br />are in. <br />David Hunt said that the public hearing used to be held in the same week, or a week <br />apart, but this schedule moved the final public hearing date closer to the end of the budget <br />process to allow the public an opportunity to comment. <br />Commissioner Dorosin asked if the conflict with the Manager’s Conference is a <br />problem. <br />Bonnie Hammersley said no, and it is her personal preference to not attend the <br />conference, due to the timing with the budget approval. She said she always attends the <br />winter conference. <br />Chair Rich said she thinks the public does get enough time after the amendments are <br />brought forward, and she leans towards staying with Option 1, but the hybrid is fine. She said <br />she does not want to go later in June just to give more time for discussion. She said the <br />Board needs to vote on this tonight. <br />Commissioner Marcoplos said that changing up the way the Board holds the meetings <br />solves the problem of participation, and adding another week does not improve that. <br /> <br />A motion was made by Commissioner McKee, seconded by Commissioner Marcoplos <br />for the Board to approve the proposed meeting schedule for the Board of County <br />Commissioners for calendar year 2020 as outlined in Option #1.