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24 Draft <br /> 1 Leann Brown: Thank you for your care tonight on this application. Thank you so much. <br /> 2 <br /> 3 Beth Bronson: And good luck with the expansion. <br /> 4 <br /> 5 AGENDA ITEM 7: ADMINISTRATIVE UPDATES <br /> 6 <br /> 7 Patrick Mallett: A few notes. I think everybody here has submitted their disclosure statement.Thank you. I appreciate <br /> 8 that. We're still waiting on a time for Leon to go and make his presentation to the board of <br /> 9 commissioners. I don't know that we're going to have a meeting in January because we don't have <br /> 10 any cases, unless there's an urgent variance request, so don't take it to the bank, but you probably <br /> 11 have January off. <br /> 12 <br /> 13 Kyle Myers: All right. Cool. <br /> 14 <br /> 15 Leon Meyers: All right. Anything else, Patrick?Anything else, board members? <br /> 16 <br /> 17 Cy Stober: One item that you're aware of, Chair Meyers, and I won't take up much time. But the board of county <br /> 18 commissioners seems to be paying more scrutiny to the attendance of the board members for both, <br /> 19 and while this board operates sort of outside of an advisory capacity, the advisory board policy still <br /> 20 applies to the board of adjustment, and just a reminder that the attendance requirements are to miss <br /> 21 no more than three meetings in a row or 25 percent total of the meetings held. So, if the board of <br /> 22 adjustment only meets four times in a year, that would be one meeting, so just be cognizant of that <br /> 23 moving forward, and we'll communicate with you further about that. And if you have any concerns, <br /> 24 feel free to reach out to myself or to Patrick. <br /> 25 <br /> 26 Leon Meyers: All right. And, Patrick you might just want to fill in the discussion that happened this week with the <br /> 27 clerk to the board regarding how attendance is counted for a board like board of adjustment that uses <br /> 28 alternates. <br /> 29 <br /> 30 Patrick Mallett: Yeah, so we indicated to them because there was, hey, one particular member is beyond that limit <br /> 31 and pointed out that we, unlike other boards, we have five regular members. We can only sit four to <br /> 32 five, preferably five of the members, and the alternates are just sitting there. Requiring alternate <br /> 33 attendance would probably be a mistake because you'd end up with situations where you'd have two <br /> 34 members coming to just sit on their hands and sit in the bleachers. So, they acknowledged that and <br /> 35 realized, okay, maybe we need to take a look at how that applies, but it should apply to the sitting <br /> 36 members, probably not to the alternates. <br /> 37 <br /> 38 Leon Meyers: All right. <br /> 39 <br /> 40 Beth Bronson: We're the ones that show up 95 percent of the time. <br /> 41 <br /> 42 Nathan Robinson: Yeah,the way that it's been presented has been do you want a time off,or it's like the alternates have <br /> 43 been able to slide in and out. <br /> 44 <br /> 45 Patrick Mallett: Yes. And that's been my philosophy is we get to the magic five. <br /> 46 <br /> 47 Nathan Robinson: And then it doesn't matter who, if it's an alternate or not. <br /> 48 <br /> 24 <br />