Informational and report and discussion item. Thank you very much. First i need to say that on behalf of commissioner gravanis who i have not actually talked to but she is of course very sorry to miss this meeting. She almost never misses any meetings, and it is only because she is sick and i know that she must be very frustrated because tonight topic is one that she has saved. And she taken the interest in and indeed, was that the Guiding Force for a discussion that the policy committee had on july 8th, regarding the retreat, the upcoming, as yet unschedule, retreat and how it might be schedule, organized and what topics of the discussion we might address. The conversation that we had then, actually was endorsed by president arce and he was, he participated in it and afterwards, we thought that if we reported on that discussion, tonight, it would spark a discussion among all of the commissioners, here. About how we ought to organizize the retreat. And so let me tell you briefly that d
Discussion, the four of us agreed that an appropriate focus of the upcoming retreat would be on challenges that we are facing both the department and the commission. So that what we sort of envisioned and would recommend for your consideration would be a twopart discussion. One that focused on challenges or opportunities before the commission, and ways in which before the department, i am sorry, and ways in which, the members of the commission or the commission as a whole could help the Department Address those challenges. This is an example of working with the board of supervisor and how we can get more members of the commission to go to the board or to individuals supervisors, and when there were matters of concern to the department before and to me, that is kind of technical but those were, that was one topic that we thought would be a useful discussion. The Strategic Plan actually is a better example and that is one that we discussed in that category and the other part of the retre
This is not for action, but i can see that we are going to have a lot of stuff to work through around the green purchasing and the conversation of the item that we are continuing tonight, should that end up in the policy committee and i just throw out there that this is something that commissioner stephenson is interested in in the Top Priorities that if commissioner wald is into the idea to think about agendaizing all of the policy Committee Meetings because you never know when we might want to engage and show up and it will be properly noticed to have more than three commissioners present. If we could do that i would have absolutely no objection to it and i assume my fellow commissioners would not either and we would welcome the attendance of others. So we can do. I agree. Commissioner josefowitz agrees. What do you think . Fine with me. All right. All right. So, Public Comment on this item . And seeing none, and dr. Jackson just came in, dr. Jackson no comment on the policy report,
That the policy committee had on july 8th, regarding the retreat, the upcoming, as yet unschedule, retreat and how it might be schedule, organized and what topics of the discussion we might address. The conversation that we had then, actually was endorsed by president arce and he was, he participated in it and afterwards, we thought that if we reported on that discussion, tonight, it would spark a discussion among all of the commissioners, here. About how we ought to organizize the retreat. And so let me tell you briefly that discussion or during that discussion, the four of us agreed that an appropriate focus of the upcoming retreat would be on challenges that we are facing both the department and the commission. So that what we sort of envisioned and would recommend for your consideration would be a twopart discussion. One that focused on challenges or opportunities before the commission, and ways in which before the department, i am sorry, and ways in which, the members of the commi
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