Slockett: You want to punch the button?

Parkins: Got it.

Slockett: You got it?

Parkins: Uh-huh.

Slockett: Well we've got these questions. I really would like to change the term general. That's almost like miscellaneous.

Kriz: Uh-huh.

Painter: Yes.

Slockett: The only thing I could come up with off the top of my head is County Governments.

Kriz: I was going to say County Government. Yes, yes.

Painter: That's good.

Kriz: That's fine.

Slockett: OK, County Government. I think that seems to... Should we say what is your long range vision for Johnson County...

Painter: Yes.

Slockett: ...instead of for Johnson County?

Kriz: ...Uh-huh.

Kriz: Thanks for getting these done. That's nice to have.

Slockett: Casie, you're the greatest.

Painter: Yes, thank you.

Slockett: Don't let it go to your head.

Kriz: 6 seemed bulky to me.

Painter: Yes.

Kriz: We've got what criteria and then what criteria again. I would think somehow...

Slockett: How would you make decisions concerning road improvement, maintenance, construction and...

Painter: The only other thing I can think of is not less bulky. It's what would be the basis of your decisions concerning... but that doesn't really help much in the bulk department.

Slockett: Uh-huh.

Painter: How would you decide, make decisions? That's fine I think.

Slockett: Well, what...

Kriz: You could say what criteria would you use...

Slockett: What criteria would inform your decisions concerning... that's what we have.

Painter: That's what we've got.

Kriz: What criteria would you use in making land use decisions? We couldn't leaf that together.

Painter: What criteria... we could just use the same format I guess. What criteria would you use in making decisions concerning road improvements, maintenance, construction, and I'd sort of like to say roadside weed eradication. Is road implied?

Slockett: Uh-huh.

Painter: It looks a little odd. The weed eradication kind of comes out of nowhere.

Slockett: Oh it seems like out of the blue. That's good because I'm so familiar with it I don't think of that. That's good.

Painter: So what criteria would you use in making decisions...

Slockett: Instead of like spraying dandelions in your yard...

Kriz: What criteria would you use in making...

Parkins: The Board says roadside vegetation management.

Slockett: Roadside vegetation. OK. That's probably the more politically correct. It used to be a weed eradication levy.

Kriz: See weed eradication rings home to me too.

Painter: Exactly.

Parkins: But that's the Roadside Vegetation Manager.

Slockett: But in terms of environment, the weed idea sort of...

Kriz: Well see what criteria would you use in making... how did you have that, Kim? Then what criteria...

Slockett: What we want to eliminate is the what criteria in the second one...

Kriz: What criteria, what criteria. Yes.

Painter: Yes, but I couldn't...

Slockett: What would be the basis for your decisions? What was it you said, Kim?

Painter: I was back to criteria.

Kriz: Oh yes. What criteria would you use in...

Painter: Making decisions.

Kriz: ...concerning road improvements, maintenance, construction. You could have construction, comma, weed eradication and land use.

Painter: Well, we could make it all one thing with the longer list I guess.

Slockett: Uh-huh.

Painter: What criteria would you use...

Kriz: In general land use...

Painter: ...in making decisions on land use...

Kriz: ...road improvements.

Painter: ...road improvements.

Slockett: Except it's sort of a separate category...

Kriz: Land use is all of it.

Painter: It's too big, yes.

Painter: Write it on my paper.

Slockett: I mean land use...

Kriz: What criteria would you use...

Slockett: What I object to is just repeating the same word what criteria would...

Painter: I know and I always try to edit that out but...

Slockett: Yes. Didn't you say what would be the basis for...

Painter: What would be the basis for...

Slockett: Yes. On what basis would you make decisions concerning...

Painter: That's good, I guess. On what basis would you make decisions concerning road improvements, maintenance, construction (inaudible)?

Parkins: Roadside weed eradication? OK.

Slockett: On what basis would you make decisions...

Painter: Yes, concerning... I guess that's life. Does that make sense to a person who is just hearing it?

Slockett: Uh-huh.

Kriz: Uh-huh.

Painter: I think so.

Slockett: Then should we just instead of having it on a separate line should it just follow the question mark?

Painter: Sure.

Kriz: Uh-huh.

Slockett: That looks a little odd (inaudible). What is the County's role in protecting the environment? Should we do... should we eliminate after the first sentence in number 7 or do you think it's good to leave it in there? I especially agree with Tom's point. Should we do less?

Painter: Yes.

Slockett: That's such a ridiculous...

Kriz: What is the County's role...

Slockett: How about just leaving it at that?

Painter: That looks good really to leave it at just one question.

Kriz: We're saying what is the County's role. Should it be more like... To me that's a question of...

Painter: What's currently happening?

Kriz: Yes, rather than what would...

Slockett: What should it be?

Kriz: I could be confused by that question and try to research I suppose what is the County's role now, let alone...

Painter: We could bump the word should over into that question and say what do you think the County's role should be in protecting the environment?

Slockett: Uh-huh.

Kriz: Yes. Something like that so it's their opinion.

Slockett: Uh-huh.

Painter: Do you think the County's role should be...

Slockett: What do you think should be the County's role in protecting the environment?

Painter: Yes, that's fine. Either syntax is good.

Kriz: Yes, that's a good question too.

Slockett: It seemed to me that number 9 ought to be closer to number 7.

Painter: OK.

Slockett: Then switch 8 and 9? How about that?

Kriz: Yes. That'd be fine.

Painter: Sure. That's fine.

Kriz: 8 would be a good one to move there.

Slockett: (Inaudible).

Kriz: It follows there.

Painter: Yes.

Parkins: And a period instead of a question mark at the...

Painter: Oh yes.

Kriz: Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

Painter: At the end of what is now number 8...

Parkins: Of what is now number 8? OK.

Painter: ...just put a period instead of a question mark...

Parkins: OK.

Painter: ...and maybe a comma after citizens.

Slockett: At the end?

Painter: It's a different thought.

Slockett: What do you mean?

Painter: Are you with me?

Slockett: On what is now number 8?

Painter: Right.

Parkins: Yes.

Slockett: What is your opinion? That' a question.

Painter: No. No. No.

Parkins: No, it is now number 8. You flipped the order of 8 and 9.

Kriz: 9 is describe your...

Painter: Yes, I'm sorry. That's what I meant.

Parkins: Number 14 up to right behind the question mark... the performance based budgeting to right after how do you feel putting budgets together.

Kriz: Do you have any experience putting budgets together? Right.

Slockett: Including that where?

Parkins: Like how we did on...

Painter: Instead of having a separate line.

Parkins: ...instead of having a separate line, run it behind the question mark like we did on number 6.

Slockett: Yes.

Kriz: Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

Slockett: That makes sense.

Parkins: Somebody though wasn't sure if you guys would want to just make a whole new question number.

Painter: Is there a hyphen in performance based? I should know that and I don't.

Slockett: I don't believe so.

Kriz: I don't think so.

Slockett: I don't know.

Parkins: This is how we always do it in the minutes so...

Painter: Good. OK.

Kriz: Continue if it's wrong and continue.

Slockett: For category name how about appointment versus election? Does that sound like a category? What do you think?

Kriz: That's what it deals with.

Painter: Guess you don't really want to say political issues. Yes, appointment versus election, electoral issues... I don't know.

Slockett: And then number 16, just shoot the s's.

Painter: We may not know what the Board appointed...

Slockett: How should we differentiate that? Just put 3 asterisks or something above number 16 to...

Painter: Yes.

Slockett: ...show that it's a separate...

Painter: That it's like a closing question, separate category. Yes. And then do we want to put at the beginning of this opening statements 2 minutes and then closing statements...

Slockett: 3 minutes and we'll just put how many. 2 minute opening statements, 2 minute closing statements.

Kriz: ...I think 2 and 2 is fine because we've got 16 questions. We've got to have a little time to breathe if we're running these at 10 right on the hour.

Parkins: Should I renumber? Put number one opening statement, 3 minutes?

Slockett: I don't think so. It's not really...

Parkins: OK, just opening statement 3 minutes. 2 minutes?

Painter: Yes, 2 and 2.

Slockett: Just put 2 minute opening statement and we'll allow them a 2 minute closing statement. Then if they go over at the end (inaudible).

Kriz: We've also got to kind of decide what kind of time limitation for questions. Really I think (inaudible) if you have it every 60 minutes you're really got to keep it to 45 or 50. By the time you thank them for coming, get them in, get them out...

Painter: Yes.

Slockett: I guess what I would think of doing is... because some of them they might want to talk a lot longer than others and maybe if we could just tell them that we expect it will only take 50 minutes and maybe...

Kriz: ...with everything or something. Maybe we just have to monitor that. You know, if a strong concern is they'll spend 5 minutes on one but an answer is you know I don't believe in this sales Local Option Tax. Period, it's over. That's the end of that.

Painter: Right.

Kriz: But somehow we need to be able to monitor it because I've been in these where we get behind further and further and pretty soon you're one hour out of kilter.

Painter: Yes.

Slockett: Yes. I don't think we really want that. I'm trying to figure out whether these will really take an hour or just how verbose these people are...

Painter: I know that's just it. People may not want to speak that long on each individual question on taxes or on each question that are given categories...

Kriz: Perhaps if we start on time and tell them we expect to have it concluded by a certain time, they kind of know the guidelines too.

Slockett: If they're not making very good progress, we can sort of divide the number of questions by the minutes and know that halfway through they should be halfway through the questions. If they're getting behind we could remind them that they are running behind.

Kriz: Yes, we've got basically 15. Do you have any questions? I assume a lot of them won't have too many so it's really 15 so you have 3 categories of 5 or so.

Slockett: I don't think they will have any but it's a nice gesture.

Kriz: That's a nice gesture in the closing. I think if we let them know ahead of time we hope to wrap the interview up by 9:45, which always means it's 9:50, and then the next one starts at 10:00 or something...

Painter: Yes.

Slockett: Sure, and then we can powder our noses and get a cup of coffee.

Kriz: Run to the restroom, come back and do it again. Are we going to rotate how we ask the questions or are we just going to have one of us as a moderator to do it. I don't have any strong feelings either way.

Painter: I don't either but I think...

Slockett: I think we definitely ought to rotate if we're going to do it. Should we let them...

Painter: Should we let them run the show? Motor through it on their own? Is that what you're thinking?

Slockett: I don't know. It might give them a nice little kind of break and seem a little more interactive if we ask the questions.

Painter: Yes, if we just sit there and listen that would be a little bit strange.

Kriz: Well, let's do it. Once again we can do it alphabetically or by authority. We've got Auditor, Recorder, Treasurer or Painter or I guess Kriz, Painter. Let's just do it by office.

Painter: Ask a question.

Kriz: We'll just rotate amongst ourselves.

Slockett: However we got this started... Keep rotating.

Kriz: That's fine. I think then there's no criticism well somebody asked me the questions or didn't but that's the way it's been doing it. We started with one, and we progress 3 and then we progress 3 we thread them through and that's the luck of the draw. Especially since Casie laid this all out.

Painter: Yes.

Kriz: That's a good job to get them all together except Myron. I appreciate that, that's nice.

Painter: Yes. That's excellent, excellent to have.

Slockett: Yes.

Parkins: It was done by the time I left last night.

Painter: I'm glad everyone was so available. That's very nice.

Parkins: I want to make these corrections and then put these in the mail tonight. I told Myron I'd email them to him by the end of the day so he had them for a couple of days before his interview, or a day.

Kriz: That's true. He'd be the only one (inaudible).

Parkins: Do you all want to see these again after I make these corrections?

Slockett: Yes. We definitely should see them, but I think we could mail them out to Myron.

Kriz: Or get them to him...

Parkins: I'm going to email them to him but...

Slockett: I think it's just important for us to proof them and see if we catch anything.

Kriz: Well, if she's trying to get it to Myron tonight though, she could maybe...

Slockett: Go ahead and give him...

Kriz: Let Tom look at it. That's fine with me at least at first.

Painter: I may ask you to email a copy to me and I'll try to either look at it tonight, or since I won't be here tomorrow, I'm also more than happy to defer to these editors here on this.

Slockett: ...but there's basically...

Painter: But I see nothing objectionable even in this version.

Slockett: Yes, I mean we're talking about only minor typos and punctuation so I think it would be fine to go ahead with Myron. But I still think we ought to look at it once more. If we see something, we can still change it. I don't see why Myron would object to that.

Parkins: So I can give these to Myron but I shouldn't mail them out to all the candidates until tomorrow.

Slockett: Until tomorrow.

Kriz: I think that's fine.

Painter: You guys can take a look and I'll...

Slockett: You can either email back or not but we'll look at it.

Parkins: I guess I'll email to you.

Painter: Yes, kpainter@blue is the best account to use right now. We'll you can do kpainter@avalon.net. It's my new account and it's working fine from home. I just have a little trouble with the email.

Parkins: What's the other one? I'll just email it to both?

Painter: Kpainter@blue.

Slockett: I'll mention something, on my own just to see, just to run it by Jonathan, to see if there is any interest at all... It just occurred to me, we've done such a fine job in making this information available to the public. We'll pat ourselves on the back in a little bit. It seems to be the public response seems to be very favorable to us right now.

Kriz: I think so.

Slockett: I was just thinking that this is a replacement for an election and it's right there in the boardroom. What would be wrong with at least thinking about... I think we ought to at least think about televising the interviews because people would be interested in them. So I just asked Jonathan, sort of on a lark, do you have any interest in doing that. He said we'll check with the cable TV folks and Bob Hardy and see if there's any possibility of them preempting whatever they have scheduled and showing it and check with the guy who does the County cable things to see what the cost would be. But before I do that, I'll ask you. He didn't throw up a road block. That was the main thing I wanted to see. I thought I would ask either of you how you felt about it and what your thoughts are on something like that.

Kriz: The candidates know that it's public record and everything.

Painter: Yes.

Slockett: They're running... it's for a public office where their meetings will be... Painter: Which their meetings will be televised.

Slockett: ...televised.

Painter: So there's...

Slockett: It might add pressure.

Painter: Sure, I think it would.

Kriz: Yes. I like the idea. But I'm just trying to put myself on the other side of the chair. I think any time we can do anything like that we win. I don't know if we add pressure or not. Most of these people are pretty seasoned.

Painter: I think we've got an awfully good batch of public minded people anyway.

Kriz: I guess I'd like to do it, if we could.

Slockett: Well I'll keep looking into it...

Painter: I think so too.

Slockett: I have no idea whether... there's such a short time frame.

Painter: Yes.

Kriz: Yes.

Slockett: But I'll just go ahead and pursue it. We'll just see if it happens to fall into place. Maybe we could do it.

Painter: It's a fine idea.

Slockett: I think people would love to watch it myself, I would. Of course maybe I'm an exception. But I don't particularly like watching all the other...

Painter: Remind me not to come over with a pizza some evening and then say let's watch TV, Tom.

Kriz: Well I'm one of those that sits and watches the City Councilmen and (inaudible).

Slockett: I (inaudible)...

Painter: I watch. I watch (inaudible).

Slockett: I don't watch it from beginning to end. I flip around and you probably have friends too that call up. Are you watching? Did you see this? Then you watch.

Kriz: Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Somebody has to take me off of...

Slockett: Yes.

Kriz: That's right.

Slockett: I already have a little a sign (inaudible) when we get the playback...

Kriz: Well I think these are good questions. I'm pleased with what we've come up with. I think it covers an awfully broad thing but I think at the same time that's what we need to try to figure out.

Slockett: It's a job is a very ...

Kriz: ...to make the right decision.

Painter: ...Supervisor sampler it's pretty good I think.

Slockett: I am very pleased myself so... Should we go with it and Casie will put it together and mail it to Myron and then we'll ...

Painter: Sounds great.

Slockett: ...proof it one more time tomorrow and...

Painter: OK.

Slockett: ...just and ...We don't need a meeting for that do we?

Kriz: Not a witness.

Parkins: We just ...

Slockett: Circulate it and ...

Parkins: As long as everybody comes to me and not each other.

Kriz: Yes. I was just (inaudible)...

Slockett: Well you (inaudible) them ...

Parkins: Well Yes ...either ...Yes...

Kriz: You can come see me and we'll send it to candidates so ...

Parkins: Yes.

Slockett: Yes.

Parkins: OK

Kriz: : OK.

Slockett: : Good

Kriz: OK.

Slockett: OK. Are we agreed are we adjourned?

?: ...Anything else? I think ...

Painter: ...I think so.

Kriz: ...we've got a format, we know Saturday...

Painter:...We know the agenda for Saturday so we're set.

Kriz: ...Everybody knows their time slots...OK. Before we adjourn will we send reminders out to them? We've already called and talked to them?

Parkins: I already have an envelope ready to go that has the minutes sitting in it. I'm going to put the questions in it and one of the memos that I gave to ...

Kriz: Yes. Just a little reminder.

Parkins: I'll do with their time slots I'll put that in there.

Kriz: ...Set that out and highlight it or something just so we can...

Slockett: ...Yes highlight theirs with a yellow marker.

Kriz:....Yes.

Parkins: OK. No problem.

Kriz: Just a little reminder good, good people best intentions.

Slockett: ...never hurts...

Kriz: Say oh mine was 10 I thought it was 11? Yes, so. OK?

Slockett: All right.

Kriz: Great.

Two minute opening statement.

COUNTY GOVERNMENT

1. What are County Government's strengths and weaknesses? How would you enhance the strengths and address the weaknesses?

2. Are you in favor of restructuring County Government and/or hiring a County manager?

3. Do you feel the County has additional space needs and if so how would you address them?

4. How would you go about selecting from a pool of applicants to serve on various boards and commissions?

5. What is your long range vision for Johnson County?

LAND USE/ENVIRONMENT

6. What criteria would you use in making land use decisions? On what basis would you make decisions concerning road improvements, maintenance, construction and roadside weed eradication?

7. What do you think should be the County's role in protecting the environment?

8. Describe your approach to balancing economic and business interests with interests in the health and well-being of citizens, and environmental concerns.

9. What is your opinion of the Johnson County Comprehensive Land Use Plan?

TAXES/BUDGET

10. What do you know about, and what is your opinion regarding the impact and incidence of Johnson County taxes?

11. How do you weigh requests for spending which require tax dollars versus increasing taxes?

12. What, if anything, should be done about the nature of County tax options?

13. Are you in favor of implementing a local option sales tax? If so, for what use?

14. Do you have any experience putting budgets together? How do you feel about performance based budgeting?

APPOINTMENT VERSUS ELECTION

15. If you are appointed and an election is called, will you seek your party's nomination? Will you run for reelection if appointed? If you are not appointed, would you petition or would you run as the nominee in an election that was petitioned for?

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16. Do you have any questions of the Board Appointment Committee?

Two minute closing statement.

Adjourned at 4:55 p.m.