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<br />B. Requests During Board of Commissioners' Meetings (Follow Up Items) <br />During Commissioners' comments or in the course of discussion of a particular Board <br />meeting item, a Commissioner may make a request for additional information. <br />If based on the experience of the Board Chair, another Commissioner who has knowledge <br />of the subject, or the Manager such request would seem to involve significant time (more <br />than several hours), it is the responsibility of the Board Chair, other Commissioner or <br />Manager to bring this to the attention of the Board. <br />In this way, the Board may decide whether it wishes to pursue the staff time investment <br />required by the request. Also in this way the Board will understand that the request will <br />require more time, that it may not be possible to bring the information back by the next <br />meeting agenda and that it may impact other work priorities. <br />For example, the Public Safety Study arose as a follow up item to the Board's <br />Comments. The decision was to pursue the study as an important objective for the <br />Board. This did require significant additional time and did impact other work priorities. <br />If, as in most cases, the item does not require the above level of consideration, the <br />• Manager will address the request and report back to the Board. <br />Approved by the Board of County Commissioners on March 6, 2002 <br />• <br />