And then that would be were serving on the same committee. That would be a good notice, tom . [speaker not understood]. Anyway, good form would be to do a good notice meeting, whatever we call it. The Ad Hoc Search Committee of the department of environment the Environment Commission seeks Community Input during our search for [speaker not understood] director. We can share that back to the commission. [inaudible]. Thats good, thats a good one. All right. I just want to add that i think, you know, its great that youre taking this on, josh, and i think, you know, we all really appreciate you putting in all this work and interviewing all the search firms and putting together the plan. I mean, god, doing this right now, it is a huge amount of work, so, thank you for taking that on. Thanks, commissioner. And ive just been looking forward to sharing this stuff because we get ideas about how much we can talk and obviously easiest is do notice meetings and have a conversation. Really, david h
And then that would be were serving on the same committee. That would be a good notice, tom . [speaker not understood]. Anyway, good form would be to do a good notice meeting, whatever we call it. The Ad Hoc Search Committee of the department of environment the Environment Commission seeks Community Input during our search for [speaker not understood] director. We can share that back to the commission. [inaudible]. Thats good, thats a good one. All right. I just want to add that i think, you know, its great that youre taking this on, josh, and i think, you know, we all really appreciate you putting in all this work and interviewing all the search firms and putting together the plan. I mean, god, doing this right now, it is a huge amount of work, so, thank you for taking that on. Thanks, commissioner. And ive just been looking forward to sharing this stuff because we get ideas about how much we can talk and obviously easiest is do notice meetings and have a conversation. Really, david h
Involved here. We dont want like 12 people [multiple voices] theres also the winnowing process. You may want to use the Search Committee to reduce the number of candidates because the search firm could come back with six good candidates. You have to figure out how do you narrow that down, how do you most effectively narrow that down to the finalist [speaker not understood]. So, there are a few logistical things to work out. The logistics, obviously be in closed session, it will be done in such a way that we would not have candidates see each other. We went to Great Lengths the last time. We did them on 14 separate days. And they came in one door and went out another. So, the fortunate thing about doing it we do have Video Conference now, right . Fortunate thing about using a search firm is that takes care of some of the initial screening. We wont have to look at 14 candidates hopefully. One of the reasons i asked commissioner wan to work on this search aspect is because they, i think m
But if we dont need it we do it every year. I still request that at our next meeting we have a proposal to amend our bylaws to eliminate this requirement. If i may. Or article. Commissioner gravanis. While looking it up, quick question off the top of your head, roughly, how many people want to get information through snail mail as opposed to email . Two. Two, okay. [multiple voices] 200 or two . Two. Its the same people for 10 years. So, is it the will of the commission at a future date to look at removing this from the bylaws if deputy City Attorney ellen says its okay . Yes. Yes. Okay. Hell find out for us. Hes diligently looking it up. Maybe we can then deal with that and is there any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, any other discussion . All right. [gavel] can we call item this is where we now have item 9. Department of the environment director search process and candidate qualifications. Sponsored speaker is commissioner joshua arce. This is a discussion item. Okay, col
Its also been we looked at a couple other processes particularly in regard to a search that commissioner wan was involved with with the juvenile Probation Commission when she was commissioner over there. And they went through a search. But what i wanted to kind of share is where we currently stand in terms of the process. And several commissioners really wanted to be active in having this conversation here to talk about what questions we want to ask in this process and what we think were looking for as we go out there and try to find our next director to build upon the successes that melanie has delivered for the department. So, just in a quick summary and acting director osman can help me with any details that i might miss as i try to just be to the point. There was a look at using the search firm. I know that last time there was not a search firm and it was great deal of work, safe to say. He had a Search Committee. And, so, we did look at three different search firms that the city h