Remarks by Susan Evans
46 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
- Play at 1:07:37
“I was just going to state something I'm thinking and then let you tell me if I'm thinking correctly. You know, we're talking about, you know, where might we cut because we might have to cut. I'm talking about staffing and all these different things and I think the other piece that we have to keep reminding ourselves, like you said earlier, we're not in a recessionary mode. We still have growth. We still have just as many people moving to the county that expect these services. So if anything, we need to be expanding services. And so it's a combination of, you know, it's not just cutting. It's…”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
- Play at 1:11:33
“But the biggest takeaway is how far away all three of them are from the green line. Oh, yes. Yes. Touche.”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
- Play at 1:20:23
“No, it's actually the opposite. A recurring time slot is more consistent, but mixing it up is less consistent. It's my preference to not have a recurring time slot because I like to hear from various people commissioners and be teamed up differently. That's my preference.”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
- Play at 1:23:03
“Ditto. I only answered the first question, so I can come back and answer the others.”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
- Play at 1:23:12
“I did say I didn't want a recurring time slot because I wanted to mix with different commissioners. I do like the idea of having the chair and vice chair in different ones, and I definitely think we want to break up the newer commissioners as much as possible. but like i said if we're not everybody stuck in the same one i think that allows more flexibility and i will remind everyone and this is not to be foreboding it could be three new commissioners and not just two so we have to keep that in mind as well um and of course um how will the chair or vice chair count support for agenda placement…”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
- Play at 1:31:08
“I would love, in theory, to be able to do that, but it kind of depends on the topics that we're going to be discussing as to which deputy we need in the meeting.”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
- Play at 1:35:29
“I think in theory it sounds good, and whenever it can work out and it's a brief update, yeah, I'm fine with it. but I do think we're already going to be kind of constrained to this hour in a way that we haven't been before. Most of the times that's not a problem. There are some times when they run longer than an hour just with getting through the agenda. Um, and so I just have a little concern about how often it'll really be practical for us to get through. If it's just some brief update about something, I think it'll be fine. But, um, We'll have to use judgment. In theory, it sounds good,…”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
- Play at 1:38:36
“Can I ask a clarifying question on that sheet? Option B says four committees, but then in the third column it lists three committees. So is Great Government Committee of the Whole the fourth committee, or is something not showing up there the way you intended?”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
- Play at 1:39:09
“Anyway, as you could ponder that, I would like to throw out that I don't think these are our only options. A couple of things I mentioned last time is there's not a given that every committee has to have three meetings a year, so we can talk about whether or not we have less meetings per committee as well. But anyway, I just wanted to ask that clarifying question before we started looking at the options.”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
- Play at 1:42:18
“I have comments. But I think your last point that you made is relevant because I think we just have a lot of things to think through about when something is automatically committee meeting material versus when it might just be work session material. I think there's different ways we can go on this. I'm not in favor necessarily of just adding a whole bunch of new in-person work sessions. If we look more strategically at what's on the given work sessions that we already have and whether or not some of those discussions can replace committees, I'm open to that in some instances. For example, I…”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
- Play at 1:56:07
“Having committee meetings on the days we have agenda review, because even with them starting at 11, that was kind of hard to accomplish, if I'm not mistaken. But anyway, it's something to look at, something to look at.”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
- Play at 2:12:21
“Some of my comments are very interrelated to your thinking, but I also want to back up first of all and say that I do hear Commissioner Waters' concerns about just a need to shore up how things get in these different buckets, and I'm not sure that we have been observing the process as it was originally, or as it was envisioned a few years ago, because I also know that when we came up with a preliminary draft work process flow, and we decided about, and I absolutely agree with Manager Ellis that we do not want anything that's going to be voted on that is policy or anything like that to first…”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
- Play at 2:15:25
“And I thought part of it might have been because, you know, not everybody will get to chair a committee, but I don't really think that should be the most important thing. I mean, it's not a given issue. Anyway, so I'm just asking us to sort of think about what exactly is the problem we're trying to solve, and does it have to be A, B, or C?”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
- Play at 2:16:29
“I mean, yeah, we can have four people on a committee instead of three. So I don't see that as an issue. And if it's just a matter of we don't have a committee for everybody to chair, I'm more than happy to not chair a committee. Same, so there, so there. And if the new folks want a committee, have at it. So I'm just throwing that out there to say, before we beat this thing to death, are we sure that our current scenario is not working?”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
- Play at 2:22:51
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Board of Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
- Play at 2:26:18
“I want to clarify, why is B out? I'm not advocating. I just didn't know when we decided that it was one or the other. Did you say something?”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
- Play at 2:28:26
“Between A and C, I vote for C. I'm flexible, but I think we need to maintain some amount of committees.”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
- Play at 2:29:50
“Those are the only two advisory boards that we know of that meet on Mondays?”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
- Play at 2:31:52
“And I'll say, and how often they need to meet. You know, we need to flush out what it is we expect to accomplish in the committee meetings, and that's part of that decision. Is there going to be so many policy things that we've got to have several meetings a year, or maybe not. Right.”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
- Play at 2:35:53
“And I would beg to say, I'm not sure that how it actually played out this year or last year is as, relevant is how do we want it to play out in the future. And that's what we need to figure out at the next work session. What makes sense? What is going to be the most effective way to hear information, to think about potential policy changes? And as I recall from the workflow process, it was either or. Certain things could come through a committee. Certain things could come directly to a work session. I suspect if we looked at the data for the last two years, most policy things have probably…”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
- Play at 2:55:15
“Yeah, I was going to weigh on that same topic. Of course, it's always difficult for me when we don't have support for our public education system in our top three for the reasons that you stated. But we've talked about this a number of different times, and it's a hard one. But I think it kind of comes back to, when I think about it, like what we've had to do with these judicial resources, the fact that we're having to pay more staff know more county staff because the arenas law because we're having to hold more people in our jails because of the state's lack of ability to do so that is really…”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
- Play at 2:59:49
“I'd be happy to do it, but I haven't heard any discussion.”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
- Play at 3:00:13
“I just didn't know if somebody on the board should be doing it. If they should, then good. If it needs to be somebody other than that, then good.”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
- Play at 3:00:27
“You know what I'm saying? Somebody that was on the committee, I didn't know if it was better for us just to be another person, but I'm fine if you all want to.”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026
- Play at 3:00:44
“I don't have to do it. I'm willing to do it. I've done it once before.”
Board of Commissioners · Oct 12, 2026