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let me administer the travel budget using my professional judgment. If I <br />disappoint the Council, you have the authorities described above. <br />il. Proposed Meeting Schedule <br />It is surely a prerogative of the City Council to determine their meeting <br />schedule. What follows are some thoughts, questions, and suggestions. <br />1. The two extended "recesses" will present a problem for zoning or land <br />use cases that are under a 60 day statutory time table. Suggest <br />shorter recesses. <br />I should also remind the Council that the Planning Commission just <br />changed its meeting schedule to the first Wednesday of every month. <br />That change is effective begin�ing January, 2002. We need to <br />experience the impact of that change before we can use that <br />information to help us evaluate how changin� the Council meeting <br />schedule may further impact developers and neighborhoods. <br />2. There are two stretches during the year where there are proposed to <br />be seven council meetings in a row, on consecutive Mondays. Such a <br />string of consecutive meetings makes it even more difficult for me to <br />adequately research i�tems and compile agendas and agenda packets. <br />As you know, each agenda packet consists of a notebook full of <br />material. That much material takes time to research, write and <br />coordinate. Suggest a Monday off in the middle of each of these runs <br />of ineetings. <br />3. The public may be inconvenienced by departing from the current <br />meeting schedule of the "second, third, and fourth Mondays of the <br />month." That schedule is relatively easy to remember and advertise <br />on Ch. 16. This proposed schedule is more complex and variable, <br />including as it does two significant recesses as well as providing for no <br />meetings on Mondays which are holidays (or the following day, <br />�.iesday). Suggest some regularity to the schedule that people can <br />predict and rely upon and remember. <br />4. Similarly, though we can accommodate it, the apparent blending of <br />work sessions and regular business meetings <br />a. May confuse folks; <br />b. May leave inadequate time for full exploration of policy issues at <br />the work session, since the length of the work session component <br />of each meeting is apparently proposed to be relatively short. <br />0 <br />