Heard your presentation, i want to comment on it. The first thing is, i completely support revocation hearings. I dont think that the fact that we can speed up everything and get it out the door and it reminds me for when i used to work for kodak and people would run in and say, i have to develop this right now. And then you see its christmas pictures. Why did it take you that long to develop this but you need it now . Those are the jokes we used to have. One of the questions we used to ask at h. P. How do we know where we want to go when we dont know where were really at. And after hearing the presentation, that really hits me. And the reason is not because any of this is bad, but i think when i looked at the page here under process improvements, product entitlements. I started to say, a, is what we want to do, b, how we want to do. And c, how we want to do. D, what we want to do and its a mish mash of thoughts, all good thoughts. Theres an organization of 300 people. Some people do t
But it is going to need to evolve over time. So to kind of help us keep track of that, making this a living plan and making it where on some regular basis, we are reporting either planning to the mayors office, here at the commission, from planning staff, what did we just do in the last few months . How is it working to the extend that we know what is on our list right now, what are some of things you heard about what weve changed. We want to keep the conversation going because you have to keep asking yourself are you doing things the right way. It is not just like a thing well do and walk away and move on with our lives. I have three buckets you may be asking yourselfs, are you just going to go do this or is there a process for the process for the process . Of course theres process. Thats what we do, right . It depends on what it is were talking about. If it is something where it is a commission policy, which is i dont think a large part of that universe, obviously well be here and ta
You come down to 60 of the hours were direct work and 40 werent. So if you think you have 2,080 hours per person, its not. Its roughly half of that. Is your staffing correct . If they still cant do it in a humanly possible way, its still not going to get done. So staffing and workload are important. That has tos figured out once you pare this back. What is somebody capable of doing the right way . And then ability in education. There are people that may not have the ability to do the functions we want them to do or they need more training. One of the things about training is, just because you give it, doesnt mean they get it. I was involved in organizations and studies where we train 10 people. Give them a test and 8 people understood it, 1 thought it was different and the other was different, and the error rates was the 1 and the 1. You have to understand that it sunk in. The environmental. Blah, blah, blah. The whole process and understand what the organizational structure is. One of
Here at the Planning Commission but the Historic Preservation commission, our various i cant understand hearings. Theres rec park or departments of public health. How can we make sure that were focusing that time on the projects where a judgment call is really needed in this public setting as opposed to times when we maybe able to get there 9 0 of the time at the administrative level. This is where we have the opportunity to discuss with the public what it is that were doing and grapple with the big issues. How do we get the best bang for the buck out of things that come to a hearing and versus things that do not. And how do we make sure that things come here when theyre ready so you dont recalendar something three months out because of how busy your cal is. The planning code itself, obviously this is our road map. These are the rules of the road. The clowererer it is, the better the results will be. Even simple thing like definitions. Its somewhat fundamentalle that. Can we clean up t
Spending time doing the analysis on the thing where is we do need to take a closer look. Same thing goes for hearings here at the Planning Commission but the Historic Preservation commission, our various i cant understand hearings. Theres rec park or departments of public health. How can we make sure that were focusing that time on the projects where a judgment call is really needed in this public setting as opposed to times when we maybe able to get there 9 0 of the time at the administrative level. This is where we have the opportunity to discuss with the public what it is that were doing and grapple with the big issues. How do we get the best bang for the buck out of things that come to a hearing and versus things that do not. And how do we make sure that things come here when theyre ready so you dont recalendar something three months out because of how busy your cal is. The planning code itself, obviously this is our road map. These are the rules of the road. The clowererer it is,