DISCUSSION: APPOINTMENTS OF BOARD MEMBERS TO VARIOUS BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.
Jordahl: Now we come to a couple more interesting items, I think, for discussion. Five b is discussion regarding appointments of Board members to various boards and commissions. We have a list in our packet this morning of a number of boards and commissions that we serve on as part of our service to the Board of Supervisors. Some of which, perhaps, Board Members, would wish to continue with in their current roles. Some of which have been filled by are 2 now absent Board Members, retired Board Members, Joe Bolkcom and Steve Lacina. A few of which are appointments that are generally given to the Chair. We need to work our way through these and see where we're at. Do we want to make these appointments now? Do we need to or do we want to wait until we have a 5th Board Member appointed.
Duffy: That's a good question.
Stutsman: Some of these... Pardon me, Charlie.
Duffy: They could go over and discuss them.
Stutsman: Yes, some of these I know people are wanting names. JCCOG I think is one because they've got some meetings scheduled in January and they want to know who to appoint. But then I think well we do have a 5th Board member, in all honesty, is probably interested in some of these boards and should be part of this discussion. I don't know.
Jordahl: Are there any that need to be... Suppose that we had an appointment made on the 13th, the 16th, whatever the date is that they're looking at for that appointment, is there anything that would need to be covered? Now E911 Board, we've got Mike appointed to that already at the end of last year. Is there anything else that has a degree of urgency, something that has an upcoming meeting that we know about...
Stutsman: Well JCCOG is one that comes to my mind. I guess Ambulance Advisory Committee was supposed to meet Monday. Mike just called this morning and said that they're going to reschedule that until February so there's no urgency on that one.
Jordahl: Chatham Oaks looks like the 3rd Thursday... could wait. Let's see...
Stutsman: Well Juvenile Crime Prevention Policy Board meets this week.
Jordahl: I don't have that down, Sally, in my calendar. When is that?
Stutsman: Oh, the work group meets tomorrow. The actual Policy Board meets at the end of the month.
Jordahl: OK.
Duffy: There are some I'd like to add to this list.
Stutsman: It meets on the 20th.
Jordahl: The Conference Board we're all part of. Decat, do you have a meeting scheduled there?
Stutsman: No. Should we just go through it and then we can just... Start at the top.
Jordahl: OK.
Duffy: There are some I'd like to add on after we get through the list.
Jordahl: OK. Well let's go through in order. Well let's just start at the top. Administrative Unit Labor-Management Committee, I just was... that's just been created, I believe.
Stutsman: I think so too. I guess I'd forgotten that we had that one.
Jordahl: I've attended a couple of those meetings so I guess it makes sense that I stay there and get my feet on the ground. It's not something that I'm tired of yet after 2 meetings.
Stutsman: OK. So you want to stay on that one then?
Jordahl: I guess, unless... I'm going to be overloaded with things that are normal duties of the Chair too so circle that as a maybe. Ambulance Department Labor-Management Committee, Sally, you've been on that for some time.
Stutsman: Right, and I certainly have enjoyed being on that committee but I think maybe it's time for a change, for somebody else to be involved with that.
Jordahl: OK, check that as a go off. Board of Health-Private Wastewater Rules Revision Committee, that's been done now. That's perhaps out of existence, I think. Can we cross that off the list?
Stutsman: Uh-huh.
Jordahl: Chatham Oaks, Steve is gone, so that needs to be filled. I guess that will be a go off.
Duffy: Really this is one here that we really don't have anybody on the Chatham Oaks Board, you just go there for information.
Stutsman: I guess I think the Board needs to make an effort to get somebody there on a regular basis. I think there are some issues... Communication is real important and I think this is an opportunity of the Board to be aware of what are some of the issues.
Jordahl: This Citizens Advisory Board, I think maybe during my first year on the Board, I was designated to do that and I was never informed of a meeting being held, it seemed like that was a...
Stutsman: Yes, that meets quarterly at Independence, and to be perfectly honest, I don't know if it's a good use of somebody's time. It takes at least 45 minutes to an hour to get up there. It's interesting to see the facility but it's more just talking about what's happening at Independence and what not. I would say just leave it as it is, just whoever can go and just pass it around.
Jordahl: Conference Board is everybody. Those are the debiting boards of the 2 Assessors we have here in the building, the County Assessor...
Duffy: That's coming up pretty soon.
Jordahl: Yes, the meeting is very shortly. In fact, by way of information, the 25th of this month...
Stutsman: The 25th.
Jordahl: ...the Iowa City Conference Board of Iowa City Civic Center at 6:00 and the Johnson County Conference Board here in the conference room behind this room at 7:00.
Duffy: That's the 25th?
Jordahl: Yes, the 25th. Decategorization, Sally is that being rolled into Empowerment Zones, or what?
Stutsman: Well, not at this point but that may be the direction. I guess I would like to stay Decategorization.
Jordahl: OK. Joe's gone so we've got a space there.
Stutsman: Decat meets monthly?
Jordahl: Uh-huh.
Stutsman: Maybe for an hour and a half.
Jordahl: Deer Creek Road, I don't know, they reported out.
Stutsman: Yes.
Jordahl: I don't know if that's still going to meet or not.
Stutsman: I don't think so.
Jordahl: I kind of doubt it.
Duffy: I think that's...
Peters: That can be deleted from the list?
Jordahl: Yes. Diverse-Cities Team, it has just coincidentally never worked for me to attend their meetings. I've always had conflicts that seem like they ought to take priority. We don't... We're not required to have a representative there. I'd be willing to still be designated but if someone else is interested, I'd be willing to go off that.
Duffy: I think you'll be pretty good there, Jonathan.
Jordahl: Yes, if I could ever manage to get to one, I might have something to contribute.
Stutsman: I think someone did mention to me why the County didn't have a representative there so I think if it is difficult for you to get there, maybe...
Jordahl: I don't know if it's systematically difficult for me to get there, just has been coincidentally difficult for me to get there. I've called them to explain what the circumstances were.
Stutsman: I can't remember who this was. It was someone who was on the Committee. Mike is on E911.
Jordahl: Mike's on E911 and we appreciate your stepping into that. ECICOG Board of Directors, I've been attending that and it's been interesting particularly with regard to SEATS and the transfer of buses this year to Iowa City to help them do some additional after hours service. They're also connected to the Housing Needs Assessment that we're doing currently and there will be some questions of funding to flow as a result of that needs assessment to various communities and possibly to the County if we choose to give involved with that. It's very impressive ratio of local match to the funding that's provided. It's in the neighborhood of $7,000 local match for $400,000 of federal funding. It's really a wonderful possibility of leveraging things there. Also, there's the T21 Technology Advisory Committee that evaluates enhancements projects. I don't know if that's going to change now under the new State policies.
Duffy: I don't think so, Jon. I'm Chairperson now. We might not have as much authority as we used to have, being as the State gets the money but when we give our OK to the projects, I'm sure it's going to cover some weight.
Jordahl: Uh-huh. So there will still be some activity there.
Stutsman: So do you want to stay on that, Jonathan?
Jordahl: I could go either way. There are some things that... I'll need to give up some things in order to function.
Duffy: Jonathan, keep in mind, on the end here, I'm going to recommend that you and I be on that Economic Development and that's going to be a big thing. It's going to need some trips to Des Moines.
Stutsman: Uh-huh. Yes, that is true.
Jordahl: Yes.
Duffy: Before you get on too many of them...
Jordahl: Right, exactly. I'm willing to go off of that but I'll circle it as a...
Stutsman: Well I didn't attend any of those meetings so I guess I would be willing to be the lead person and just switch you and I on that. Would that work?
Jordahl: Yes, OK. That's fine with me. Yes. And they do feed you lunch, which is an advantage. It's $2.99 or less, cold sandwiches.
Duffy: Now which one are we talking about?
Jordahl: ECICOG Board of Directors.
Stutsman: ECICOG. Well Mike, do you want to be the other person on there?
Jordahl: That'd be reasonable. You get to meet some folks from a variety of other counties, Board of Supervisors and also Cedar Rapids City Council Members sit on that so it's a lot of contact with people in the region. You get acquainted with this people.
Stutsman: Should we leave the ISTEA Policy Board and the Technology Advisory Board the same?
Duffy: I can handle that.
Stutsman: Are you... Because that deals more with trails and bikes, doesn't it?
Jordahl: Uh-huh.
Duffy: No, it's roads, a lot of roads.
Jordahl: Well the...
Stutsman: And roads and things...
Jordahl: ...the enhancement funds, that's what the projects are talking about, it's not roads in general. It's enhancement dollars.
Duffy: Enhancement dollars but still...
Jordahl: The enhancement dollars are for things sort of in addition to roads. Things like... in the Amanas, we had a project they put up for downtown enhancement, for street side... and so forth. We've used those moneys here recently for the Dubuque Street West Overlook Trail Project. So those enhancement dollars are closely related to the trails question. We do have at least... I need to check with Dunbar to see what the status of that DOT grant for trails planning is. But that will be an important feature of that. I guess I'd be interested in continuing to participate in those discussions.
Duffy: But also... See that goes with the ISTEA Policy Committee and the Technology Advisory Committee. That would need a lot of... Most of that is for roads and bridges. But enhancement projects, on trails for example, most of the counties, it's 6 counties, and quite a few of the counties said that they really weren't as interested in trails as we were so being that nobody put in a program for trails in some counties that meant that the matching funds would be less. Ours on that last one I think was 80% plus 20% matching funds.
Jordahl: No, we paid the 20%.
Duffy: (Inaudible) 50/50. Yes.
Stutsman: Do the 2 of you want to stay on that then?
Duffy: We paid the... Yes, because it's mostly about roads, Sally.
Stutsman: All right. I guess I'm comfortable with leaving it the way it is.
Jordahl: Uh-huh.
Stutsman: Deer Committee, Charlie, you're not meeting on that anymore, are you?
Duffy: Yes, I'm still on the Deer Committee. I think that, and I'm keeping a lot of material, information material, because I think that's going to go over to another County before too long.
Stutsman: All right.
Duffy: I really do.
Stutsman: So they're going to continue to meet?
Duffy: Yes.
Stutsman: OK.
Duffy: We didn't disband so...
Jordahl: You did or did not disband?
Duffy: We didn't.
Jordahl: You didn't. OK.
Duffy: I don't know, not that I was aware of.
Jordahl: All right. FEMA Board, Steve's not here.
Duffy: FEMA Board?
Jordahl: That's Jim McGinley's Emergency Management Advisory...
Lehman: I might have an interest in that if I knew a little more about it.
Stutsman: All right.
Duffy: FEMA Board...
Stutsman: It doesn't sound like...
Jordahl: They're the people that approved the purchase of that van, I think, and the use of those other funds.
Duffy: Yes, but Steve wasn't on that.
Jordahl: What's the story, Carol? You're shaking your head. What is that?
Duffy: That's not FEMA, not the one that...
Stutsman: Well that's if we have a...
Duffy: Emergency Management... What's the difference between FEMA and Emergency Management?
Peters: Well FEMA is federal.
Duffy: Yes.
Peters: This does not meet all that often but they came in like in 1993 when the floods were here and they reviewed the flood plan. They also... again the flood of 93 you had some housing along the river that needed to be raised and they were the people that came and checked and made sure along with the Zoning Department.
Duffy: Well that...
Jordahl: So it's kind of ad hoc?
Peters: Uh-huh. It's as needed.
Duffy: Emergency Management group did too.
Jordahl: All right, so there's another committee that's Emergency Management down here somewhere.
Duffy: Yes.
Jordahl: Yes. Johnson County Emergency Management, LEPC. What's LEPC stand for, Charlie?
Duffy: That is mostly cities.
Jordahl: Local Emergency Preparedness Committee. How's that?
Stutsman: Sounds good.
Jordahl: I can make up acronyms with the best of them. I don't know what it really means.
Duffy: We don't meet very often.
Stutsman: So Mike's going to take the FEMA Board?
Jordahl: Cole, would you just as soon not listen to this and do the Local Option Sales Tax discussion first?
Chase: Carry on, you guys have me for another hour and a half.
Jordahl: All right. HACAP Board and Commission, I've been on that for 2 years. It's been... it's a...
Stutsman: Do you want to stay on it or do you want to... Would that be something to consider for the new Board Member?
Jordahl: It is something to consider for the new Board Member in all honesty. I've enjoyed being there. I've made some friends. It's a good meal. They feed you when you go you up there. They've been good to me but it is a time commitment. You're up there... It's kind of a long meeting, that 4th Thursday of each month, and you're driving up to Cedar Rapids. This Independence, that's not correct. This HACAP Commission, that's local Johnson County. So when you look at meetings and dates, that's usually in Iowa City.
Stutsman: But it just makes sense for whoever is on the HACAP Board to also be on the HACAP Commission.
Jordahl: Yes. Now the HACAP Commission has been restructured so that they either work on Head Start or the housing side of it, not both. I've been assigned to, or chose, the Head Start side of things.
Stutsman: OK. So should we wait for those appointments for the new Board Member?
Jordahl: Maybe wait until the new Board Member comes, yes.
Stutsman: OK.
Jordahl: Heritage Area Agency on Aging Task Force, I've been on that for the last 2 years. It is an interesting meeting to go to dealing with senior issues. I'd be willing to continue to attend that, I'd be willing to let the new Board Member step into that.
Stutsman: Charlie, are you still interested in serving on that?
Duffy: Well I'll tell you what happened. Now and then I can go to it but it seems like... I don't know how this really happened. We used to have our Congregate Meal Senior Dining meetings at 1:00 and this took over at 1:00. The meetings dropped down to 3:30, to probably 5:30. We haven't had very good attendance since we've done this either, Bob. I always thought that the Nutrition Committee on Senior Dining should, at least once a month, have a meeting and get up there in time to have lunch with the people that use the program. I don't know...
Jordahl: Well if 1:30, now this one meeting at 1:30 would fit in OK with having lunch.
Duffy: Well but there's some that really don't want it that way. But the attendance I don't think is that great anyway.
Welsh: That's 2 different things you're talking about. One is the Heritage Area Agency Task Force, and in the past, it has been the Supervisors that wanted to have appointed themselves to that task force.
Jordahl: Uh-huh. The attendance there is very good.
Welsh: Sometimes there have been 3 of the Supervisors. The other is the Nutrition Committee, but those are 2 separate things.
Jordahl: Yes, this one is showing signs of becoming active in monitoring nursing home patients. There's a subcommittee that's working on that. I don't know where that's actually going to go but there's some really motivated people in there.
Stutsman: So who wants to serve on that?
Jordahl: Actually Mike, when I was talking to a gentleman that lives in the Senior Center the other day, he indicated that you'd had a lot of connections to senior issues and so forth. I don't know if this is something you're interested in or not.
Lehman: I'd consider it. You might want to wait until the new Board Member for that one too, to see what their strong points are.
Stutsman: Maybe that would be one we could wait on.
Jordahl: OK. Human Services Labor Management Committee...
Stutsman: I would like to continue to serve on that. We've just been organized for one year so if that would be OK with the Board, I would just as soon stay on that for a while.
Jordahl: Yes.
Duffy: And the alternate would be our Chairperson?
Jordahl: I would like to be the alternate.
Duffy: All right.
Jordahl: Yes.
Stutsman: Oh OK. ICAD, Jonathan?
Jordahl: Yes, Steve's been doing that. This would normally be the appointment of the chair but because of Steve's great interest in the area, it was allowed that he do that. I am interested since I will be, I assume, the Board's representative to the Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors in following up with ICAD as well. We have now as part of our adopted Land Use Plan a significant component to promoting economic development, and as Charlie suggested, he wants me to be involved with the State Economic Development Board. I think if this is an area that we're going to go be active in, then I have some input that I'd like to make to those guys. If the Board wouldn't object, I'd like to be appointed to that.
Stutsman: I don't have a problem with that, unless Mike...
Jordahl: Unless somebody else... I mean, Mike, if you've got a...
Duffy: No, you're... That'd be a good one for you, Jonathan.
Jordahl: I think it makes some sense. I'm going to be getting up every morning at 6:00 the more I get these meetings out. Actually, I get up at 6:00 now. I'll have to get up earlier.
Stutsman: Luckily you only meet once a month.
Jordahl: Yes, that's merciful. The Chamber of Commerce, now the following wants it's Board Chairperson so that's...
Peters: You need to take this one.
Jordahl: Yes. Iowa River Valley Resources Conservation and Development Council, Charlie...
Stutsman: Charlie...
Duffy: Well we started going to that and then there was one... there was an emergency, the tornado warnings went off and I didn't go. I think there was another one that was... Where was that last one, Sally?
Stutsman: Let's see, Marengo and Belle Plaine is where they've been. This month they are meeting in Iowa City so that will be...
Duffy: Just leave it the way it is if you want to.
Stutsman: Yes, that's fine. I can stay on that too.
Peters: Does the meeting date and timing change? (Inaudible) it sounds like they're meeting once a month.
Stutsman: Yes. I'll get that...
Peters: So that needs to be changed from as announced.
Stutsman: Yes, they do meet monthly.
Duffy: Is it monthly, Sally?
Stutsman: Uh-huh.
Duffy: I didn't think it was. OK.
Stutsman: I think they have been now that they've got a Director hired, they do meet.
Jordahl: So what's the upshot of that?
Stutsman: Charlie and I will stay on that.
Jordahl: OK, stay. JCCOG Board of Directors, I've been eager to be on that the last 2 years I've been on the Board and have not been able to. I hope that as Chair the Board will relent and let me serve there.
Stutsman: I would like to continue on that for one more year.
Duffy: OK, Jonathan and Sally. Is that all right, Mike?
Stutsman: The Rural Policy Board meets just once a year. I think if you're on the JCCOG Board, it's appropriate for them just to stay on that. If that's OK, we'll just...
Jordahl: We should... You mentioned yesterday the possibility of promoting that meeting more often and I'd certainly be in favor of that.
Stutsman: That's something we can talk about.
Jordahl: Johnson County Emergency Management and LEPC, whatever that is, Charlie, do you want to stay on that?
Duffy: Yes, I've been on that for several years and there's some things coming up that I... It's a good committee.
Jordahl: Well we've got that planning business that has to be done. We have to have an emergency management plan in place in fairly short order in order to keep people protected for FEMA, I think.
Duffy: Yes.
Jordahl: That's active there. In fact, I'd like an update that on that from Jim or you, or somebody as soon as possible.
Duffy: Our new truck that we've been thinking about getting...
Stutsman: So Charlie's going to stay on there then?
Jordahl: Is that OK with everybody? Johnson County Emergency Medical Services Association, Sally?
Stutsman: I've served on that for 2 or 3 years. I think it's time for somebody else to get involved with that. It's been very enjoyable. I've learned a lot. I really, really encourage...
Jordahl: Now that's a separate animal from the Labor-Management or...
Stutsman: Well they kind of tie in together so I think whoever serves on the Labor-Management... it's a good tie in to be on the Emergency Medical Services although it's not required that you attend both meetings.
Jordahl: That's one that either Mike or the new Board Member... if we've got a developing...
Stutsman: Would you be interested in...
Lehman: I might want to visit with you a little bit to see what it involves but...
Stutsman: OK. All right.
Jordahl: OK, so we'll decide that one maybe on Thursday or a little later. (Inaudible).
Stutsman: Carol also attends those meetings so it's...
Jordahl: Which beings us to Admin. Unit Labor-Management Committee and no, it doesn't either. I flipped to the wrong page. Johnson County/Iowa City Airport Zoning Commission, less than once a year. That sounds like a major time commitment.
Stutsman: Well it looks like it's the Chair that probably did that. Why don't we just...
Jordahl: Yes, it looks like the Chair. Maybe we should just change that to Chair, instead of Joe (inaudible) on our list.
Duffy: If you can't go, you can always get somebody to...
Jordahl: Uh-huh. Chair and all Board Members are alternates, that's reasonable. Johnson County Mental Illness/Developmental Disabilities Planning Council, everybody is welcome to attend that. It's a very good opportunity to hear input from the consumer. It's main function is to get the consumers involved in the decision making process about how we divide resources in that field where it's limited and a frozen budget.
Duffy: There have been some folks that wanted on this Board though and they felt we had too many Supervisors on it.
Jordahl: Well we changed that in the last year, when I was Chair
Duffy: Yes, I know, but there's still something...
Jordahl: ...doubling the amount of consumer representation.
Stutsman: Can we move on to the Juvenile Crime Prevention Policy Board...
Duffy: (Inaudible)...
Jordahl: Yes, let's do.
Stutsman: ...so we keep going on these?
Duffy: ...rule the roost.
Stutsman: I'd like to stay on the Juvenile Crime Prevention Policy Board.
Jordahl: I thought that I was on that, instead of Joe. I don't know if I just attended for him, or what.
Stutsman: I guess I thought you were too.
Jordahl: I'd like to be on that in view of the 6th Judicial District appointment. I think these 2 things should be linked.
Duffy: I'll second the motion.
Jordahl: Labor Negotiation, Charlie, did you enjoy that?
Duffy: Yes, I'd stay on that, I guess.
Stutsman: Mike, do you want to go on that instead of me?
Jordahl: I bet you'd be good. We've got another new person too.
Lehman: Yes, I'll try that.
Jordahl: First come, first served. MECCA, Mike, you had mentioned some interest in that.
Stutsman: I... oh...
Lehman: Do you have interest in that?
Stutsman: Yes.
Jordahl: Sally, do you want to get involved?
Stutsman: Yes, there's a tie in between MECCA and what's happening with the Juvenile Justice Policy Board so...
Jordahl: And the Mental Health Center, which comes up next here.
Stutsman: I would like to go off of that. I've been on for 4 years. I think it's time for somebody else to be on there.
Jordahl: OK. I wonder if we could leave that one open to see who our new person is, unless...
Stutsman: Unless, Mike, you had some interest in that?
Jordahl: ...Mike, you want to jump in?
Lehman: I might visit with you a little bit about it.
Stutsman: OK. All right.
Lehman: It might be better to wait and see what the talents are of the new member.
Jordahl: Yes. Nutrition Board, Charlie, that's the one you were talking about didn't meet close enough to lunch.
Duffy: Well I've been on it for 10 years and I do spend a lot of time up at the Senior Center anyway. It's a successful program. A while back there was one woman... She wanted on it, a very good individual, and I didn't realize that we're supposed to have a Supervisor on it so...Yes, I'd stay on it.
Stutsman: OK.
Jordahl: OK. Stay. Random Cash Accounts, that's automatically Chair and Vice-Chair. I think that maybe we should add to that or their designees, anybody else as alternate. If the Auditor's Office comes up and says, hey we want to do this and other Supervisors are around. The Chair and Vice-Chair aren't around, they should be able to go. Any problem with that?
Duffy: Yes, as far as I'm concerned, we don't have to do this. I would like to take my name off of that.
Stutsman: Which one?
Jordahl: Cash Accounts?
Duffy: Yes, Cash Accounts. I think maybe the Auditor should do that.
Stutsman: Why don't we just leave Chair and Vice-Chair on that.
Jordahl: All right. REAP, this is a committee that I assume has something to do with deciding about how the moneys from REAP are disposed.
Duffy: We don't meet as much as much as we used to. We used to meet every month and now it's a couple times a year but it's a very important program. Last time we approved a trail in southeast Iowa City. There's a wetland there.
Jordahl: Oh, so you govern things going on inside of Iowa City as well. I was thinking it was rural.
Duffy: Any place that asks for it. Well it goes out into the rural area.
Jordahl: Uh-huh. But this is a county-wide, including the cities, body then.
Duffy: Well it looks to me like... I said the City but the person was from the City that gave us what they were going to do with this trail, this wetland, and some of that indeed go out into the rural area so I spoke too soon.
Jordahl: Well in any case, you'd want to stay on that.
Duffy: Yes, I suppose.
Jordahl: All right. Regional Mental Health/Mental Retardation Committee...
Stutsman: I can attend that. I don't think they meet very often but it's kind of a good tie in with some of the other things that I've been involved in.
Jordahl: Regional Trails and Bicycling, I've enjoyed being part of that. If another Board Member has a strong interest in that area, I'd be willing to step off but I'm enjoying being there. We're entering into this planning process with Mr. Dunbar so I'd be willing to stay.
Stutsman: Well if Charlie doesn't want to do it, I guess I'd just say...
Jordahl: Do you want to be on the Regional Trails and Bicycling Committee, Charlie? I don't want to give it up that bad.
Duffy: I approve on the ISTEA Program a lot of trails.
Jordahl: OK, let's let Jonathan... because I do think it is a good tie in with the other things that...
Duffy: Do you ride a bike to the meetings?
Jordahl: Charlie, I haven't owned a bike for 15 years.
Duffy: Have you?
Jordahl: No.
Duffy: Say Mike, would you like to be on this committee? OK, Jonathan.
Jordahl: I remember my bicycle though. Roads Liaison, this is a committee whose function has been called into question in the last couple of years and I think it makes sense that we have a subcommittee of the Board as we do the strategic planning. Designate 2 Supervisors to ride herd on various areas for our strategic goals, economic development with Steve and Charlie, for example, Sally and I have been looking at budget. I think it's reasonable to designate Roads Liaisons.
Stutsman: I guess I put Mike's name in there and I don't know why.
Lehman: Yes, I have an interest.
Stutsman: OK.
Jordahl: Just Mike for Steve.
Lehman: Yes.
Jordahl: SEATS Labor/Management Committee...
Stutsman: Joe always served on that.
Jordahl: Joe has been there. This... for Burnell there, I suppose that we would be talking about Lisa there or is Burnell like the Labor Liaison?
Stutsman: I think it probably should have been changed to Lisa.
Jordahl: It should be Lisa Dewey, I think.
Stutsman: I guess Charlie and I are on that SEATS Citizens Advisory Committee. I wonder if it would be appropriate for one of us to serve on this committee.
Jordahl: It would make sense if you had a citizen concern that was relating to a staff concern...
Stutsman: Right. Charlie, do you want to do it or do you want me to do it?
Duffy: I'd rather you do it because I've got 2 or 3 from last year.
Stutsman: All right. Then, I'll got ahead and do it.
Jordahl: OK. Services Management... Speak up, Mike, if you want something in here.
Lehman: I need to maybe know a little more about some of them plus...
Jordahl: We can change some of this if you develop a strong feeling about something. Talk to individuals and...
Lehman: OK.
Jordahl: We're just trying to get a picture of what's going on here. Services Management Plan for Persons with MI/CMI/MR/DD- Work Group, now this is a...
Stutsman: I was appointed to that by the Planning Council, so I think...
Jordahl: OK. That makes sense. Have they changed the name of it?
Stutsman: Yes, it is... The name has been changed. I'll get you that official title, Carol. There's been a little bit of reorganization so...
Jordahl: OK, Sally, whatever it is.
Stutsman: Yes.
Jordahl: Sixth Judicial District, that's me. We made that appointment yesterday.
Stutsman: Boy, it feels like it's getting colder in here.
Jordahl: It is feeling cold (inaudible). Shut the window.
Stutsman: I just feel like a draft or...
Chase: I'll tell you one place where local option sales dollars can go.
Jordahl: (Inaudible). Swisher Fringe Area Commission, boy, I'll tell you what. I'll run as fast I can. We now have the finalized... I've got it actually right here. I don't know what it's called...
Stutsman: Jonathan, do we need to appoint someone to that or not? I don't know if we need an update right now.
Jordahl: Well it doesn't currently exist. Maybe we want to address that question when it's brought back into existence or begins meeting again or something. We've got to reinitiate that process. We do have the new Extraterritorial Future Land Use Plan from Swisher in hand and this will serve as the basis for the new Fringe Area Agreement but that (inaudible).
Stutsman: OK, why don't we just deal with that when it comes to us.
Jordahl: Yes, later.
Peters: We'll take that off of here.
Stutsman: All right.
Jordahl: United Way/Joint Funding Hearings are, I hope, over.
Stutsman: They are.
Jordahl: I did not manage to attend those this year.
Stutsman: I only got to one of them. There was a conflict every single month.
Jordahl: It's a very interesting educational opportunity.
Stutsman: Yes.
Jordahl: In the coming year, Mike, if you and or the other new person wanted to be part of that, I think that would make sense.
Stutsman: Maybe that's one we could wait until the new Board person, because like we said, the hearings are over with for this year so...
Jordahl: Yes, all right. Charlie, you mentioned adding things.
Duffy: Yes, I have a Chamber of Commerce Ag Committee that meets once a month. Steve and I were on it and so I think... Mike, I thought you were there a few times.
Lehman: I've been attending the last couple. I'd like to continue if I could.
Stutsman: OK.
Jordahl: So Charlie and Mike, seems good.
Stutsman: The Chamber Ag Committee, OK.
Duffy: Now the big one, this Economic Development, is very, very important.
Jordahl: The State Economic Development...
Duffy: Well it would just be Economic Development period.
Stutsman: Oh.
Jordahl: That's the one you and Steve were doing as a subcommittee for the Board?
Duffy: Yes and that includes the State. I still haven't talked to them up there but I hope you'll get on some State committees because...
Jordahl: Yes, I've met some folks in that. I did and I think we get along well.
Duffy: That is going to take some time.
Stutsman: So should we put Charlie and Jonathan on that then?
Jordahl: Yes.
Stutsman: Should we... Those strategic planning committees, I'm thinking like the Space Needs Committee, Charlie and I have worked on that. Maybe we should include that too.
Jordahl: Uh-huh. Yes, that's a big time commitment. And the Computer Committee...
Stutsman: Well that was... Charlie, do you want to continue working on that. I guess I'm still interested in working on that.
Duffy: Yes.
Stutsman: Communications Committee, I guess I would be interested in serving on that.
Duffy: Now there is one more for me that... It's the National Water Quality Assessment Program, U.S. Department of Interior and U.S. Geological Survey. I've been on that for about 3 years.
Jordahl: Do they continue to meet?
Duffy: They meet about once a month. Pardon me, once a year, and that's up in Waterloo.
Stutsman: But that's just something you serve on, right Charlie?
Duffy: Well this is something that they wanted people to serve on. What it is, the Water Quality Assessment, is investigation of historical water quality trends and water sheds in central and southern United States. I think we should have a representative on it.
Stutsman: Uh-huh.
Duffy: We're talking about water sheds. It might go in with the other committee we're on.
Jordahl: Well there's another comparable thing that I'm involved with. It's the Clear Creek Watershed Leadership Team.
Duffy: Yes, you can put that down too.
Stutsman: Right, because they did ask for a Board representative on that.
Duffy: Yes. Any information we get, I'd be glad to bring it back when we have our meetings. This is funded by the Feds and I think it's around...
Stutsman: What about the Computer Committee?
Duffy: ...$6,000,000.
Jordahl: The Computer Committee, Joe and I were on. I'd like to continue there for some continuity. I'd certainly welcome anyone else coming along with that because there's plenty of work there.
Stutsman: What do you do... Oh, that's to keep working on the computer...
Jordahl: GIS, networking, document management and web development and then there's an overall joint county-wide Computer Committee. The subcommittees report back to the Computer Committee with their recommendations about those specific areas. The Computer Committee recommends to the Board what, from a County-wide perspective, seems the balanced thing to do and about how that fits in with the 5 Year Plan. The Board then roles the 5 Year Plan with the advice of Information Services Department into the budget.
Stutsman: OK.
Jordahl: It needs Supervisor oversight.
Stutsman: So Jonathan and then... I don't know if...
Jordahl: Jonathan and somebody.
Stutsman: ...maybe that's something we could talk with the new Board Member. I don't think I'm interested in serving on that. I don't know if you are, Mike?
Lehman: I might find out a little more about it.
Stutsman: OK.
Jordahl: OK.
Stutsman: The Budget Committee, Jonathan, you and I have kind of worked on that.
Jordahl: Yes.
Stutsman: These are probably in-house committees, aren't they.
Jordahl: Yes, on the other hand, they're big time commitments. We might list that as a category here, in-house...
Stutsman: Yes, I think so. Kind of divide it...
Jordahl: In-house committees...There are some other things that you and I talked about the other day, various management team committees...
Stutsman: Uh-huh.
Jordahl: ...that I think we maybe we ought to set that as an agenda item.
Stutsman: Or a work session or something...
Jordahl: Yes, or as part of strategic planning or something to talk about... well we should talk about strategic planning. We need to talk about management teams, which one exists in MH/MR/DD right now. There have been meetings with the Ambulance Department. Has that been discussed here?
Stutsman: No, no. Those haven't. Those have just kind of just been informal committees that we really haven't... I guess the Board has agreed people will serve on them but I think that we should save that for a work session.
Jordahl: Have a work session on management teams versus Labor-Management teams, which are more formalized.
Stutsman: Yes, those are required in the contracts.
Jordahl: OK, so we need to talk about strategic planning and management teams at some point. OK. Well that's enough of that, isn't it or is there something else... What about that National thing Charlie mentioned, the Watershed, are we putting that on here or not?
Stutsman: Well I wonder if we should put... We all serve on some State committees too but they're not really included on this list.
Jordahl: Yes, ISAC, work and stuff.
Stutsman: Yes.
Duffy: This is very important.
Stutsman: Yes, I know.
Duffy: I'd be giving reports on this because there's a lot of bucks in back of it.
Stutsman: Uh-huh. Well maybe we should have a separate section for... We talk about in-house committees, these appointments, and then...
Jordahl: Other...
Stutsman: Other committees...
Jordahl: Other committees Board Members serve on.
Stutsman: Yes.
Jordahl: So we can get a balanced sense of people's time commitments.
Stutsman: OK. I guess I serve on the ISAC DHS Cabinet.
Jordahl: Maybe we can each make a list of all the committees we work on and submit that to Carol.
Stutsman: Right, why don't we do that.
Jordahl: (Inaudible).
Duffy: Jonathan, here's a copy (inaudible).
Stutsman: Cole?
Jordahl: Yes, Cole?
Chase: I'd also like to... What I'll do is get you a list of all the Chamber Committees because Sally helps out there. Mike and Jonathan, you mentioned you'd be interested in local government there.
Jordahl: Right.
Chase: Charlie here is on Ag. I'll get you a list and description of all the Chamber committees (inaudible). You guys help out a lot on those as well.
Jordahl: You'll have to tell me where you got that tie later too.
Peters: I think Cole is cold.
Chase: And I don't get cold.
Jordahl: OK, so if everybody would give Carol, or me or somebody a list of other committees you serve on, we can talk about that that same work session. We can get our list of committees maybe broadened out to reflect what we're really doing. All right?
Stutsman: OK.