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29 Commissioner Bedford said that's something the Board needs to do. Chair Price said there has never been a consistent process. Commissioner Richards said she isn't lobbying for or against reporting back to the rest of the Board, but clarity on the expectation would be appreciated. Commissioner Hamilton asked if they even need to be on all of the advisory committees or only certain ones. Chair Price said most boards that Commissioners are on no is either due to statute or some interlocal agreement. Lydian Altman said she now recalls a past Board retreat with Orange County where boards and committees were discussed. Chair Price said there used to be Board members on all of the county's own advisory committees, but now they are only on the ones where there is an interlocal agreement or some other requirement they participate like state statute. Commissioner Hamilton said there aren't processes in place for orienting and reviewing, and bringing that would help the Board be more effective. Lydian Altman said now is an opportunity for someone to say what they think the expectations are and hear what the rest of the Board thinks. Chair Price said she sees a correlation between reporting back from committee meetings and also determining whether or not attending is an effective use of time. Lydian Altman said the Board may decide to set aside a work session for this discussion. She said the bigger issues that come out of the retreat can inform their work plan for the next year. Commissioner Bedford said the retreat planning committee was hoping to surface these big issues and have a list as a Board in order to plan additional time for discussion at a later date. Lydian Altman said it sounds like an examination of the relevancy, the need for, and the expectations about service on these committees is needed. She asked what other things came up in paired discussions. Chair Price said every time someone new comes onto the Board it changes the focus and the dynamic. She said this Board is totally different than when she first got on the Board, besides Commissioner McKee including new priorities, focuses, preferences, etc. For example, she said there were Commissioners that wanted to do poetry reading at the beginning of every meeting or who wanted to do a proclamation every time a high school sports team won a state championship. She asked how and when to determine what the Board culture will be for the upcoming year. Lydian Altman said this retreat was even supposed to be January 21 st, then February 7tn but kept changing due to COVID. Commissioner Greene said the Arts Moment Chair Price was mentioning went away with COVID, but she would actually like to see it back. Chair Price said that was a decision that was made, it wasn't just COVID. Commissioner Greene said that needs to be revisited because she supports the Arts Moment. Commissioner Hamilton said there are policies and procedures that would be helpful to go over and follow during Board meetings to make sure everyone is on the same page and is doing what they said they would do. She said it's not clear that they always follow them during meetings. Lydian Altman said the intent of this is for meetings to be more enjoyable and efficient. Commissioner Hamilton also said there is so much information that comes to the Board and it is easy to lose track of what is important, which the rolling calendar doesn't always capture.