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13.A. CHAIRMAN RUTH M. STANBRIDGE - UPDATES Chairman Stanbridge announced that she had no updates for this meeting but that she would be in Washington on June 12 and 13. Commissioner Adams questioned whether Chairman Stanbridge would be bringing back the National Scenic Highway designation, and Chairman Stanbridge stated that there has been no official word as yet on that designation. 13.C. COMMISSIONER FRAN B. ADAMS - AGENDA PROTOCOL The Board reviewed a Memorandum of June 10, 2002: To: Members of the Board of County Commissioners Date: June 10, 2002 Subject: AGENDA PROTOCOL From. Fran B. Adams Commissioner Several years ago the Board had a policy that all public discussion items must go through an effort by staff or an appropriate committee to resolve the issue brought forward If the issue could not be resolved or handled by staff or committee then the issue would be brought to us for discussion and direction. This policy worked well in the past. We moved away from this policy in an effort to allow more public participation and comment. What has happened now is that, in addition to having valid public discussion items, particular political candidates take advantage of expounding their views before free TV and other persons bring verbal diatribes addressed to global innuendos on issues not dealt with by the Commission. While we all believe in the right of free speech, our County Commission meetings are business meetings meant to dispose of County business in a timely manner. There are many constituents who call with problems that we individually investigate, route to the appropriate department or person, and try to resolve to some conclusion. Not all problems are resolvable. If each constituent brought their problems to the public meetings we would all five spend hours listening when we could each be spending that time solving problems JUNE 11, 2002 r -48-