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    The Government Efficiency Task Force is looking for ways to make The City more efficient. The City has already implemented some of the task force's recommendations. Combining the commissions would not necessarily reduce staff time. Commissioners would still have to prepare for the same number of projects.

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    The Government Efficiency Task Force is looking for ways to make The City more efficient. The City has already implemented some of the task force's recommendations. Combining the commissions would not necessarily reduce staff time. Commissioners would still have to prepare for the same number of projects.

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    The Government Efficiency Task Force is looking for ways to make The City more efficient. The City has already implemented some of the task force's recommendations. Combining the commissions would not necessarily reduce staff time. Commissioners would still have to prepare for the same number of projects.

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    a linkage between all of what were doing and trying to make this more efficient.

    Director of Community Development Susan Healy Keene told the City Council at the study session in December that the urban designer could help reduce the workload of the commissions. At that meeting, Pepp, then-Design Review Commission Chair Howard Szabo and Commissioner Zale Richard Rubins expressed concerns about merging the commissions. The City Council agreed it would like to discuss the recommendation again before voting on it. Pepp said she did not see how combining the commissions would reduce staff time since staff would still have to prepare for the same number of projects. The number of meetings would not necessarily change, but the efficiency of staffing them would be improved, Brien said. The efficiency of calendaring items for meetings would be improved and the prioritization of items would be improved because sometimes one commission may have a busy schedule while another commission has a very light schedule and yet during a light schedule, the staff has to prepare for that commission meeting. Brien said if the City Council approves the recommendation, there would be a transition period for merging the commissions, based on the expiration dates of commissioners terms. I dont think it will adversely impact people serving now because we will transition over a period of time, Brien said. Rennett and Pepp said their commissions had not yet been consulted on the recommendation, but Brien said the city council would be seeking feedback from commissioners before making a decision. The Government Efficiency Task Force was established by Barry Brucker when he began his term as mayor in March 2011. The City has already implemented some of the task forces recommendations, including streamlining the restaurant review process so new restaurants receive approval from the Architectural Commission in 70 days or less, and initiating an electronic plan check process at beverlyhills.org. Rennett said he was unsure how merging the commissions would work with the 70-day restaurant review process, which often requires Architectural Commission subcommittees to meet in between commission meetings to help move restaurant applications forward. Im not sure how the pieces would fit together, Rennett said. Certainly you couldnt have the commissioners doing both subcommittees and meeting twice a month. During the budget process, the City Council will also be considering hiring an additional clerk to help expedite the building permit process, Brien said.

    help the Public Works Department save money. The subcommittee came up with a set of recommendations, which the Commission approved at its meeting on May 10. Going forward, the commission will be working more closely with staff in matters involving capital improvement projects in enumerated general categories [including] involvement at the conceptualization stage, involvement in selection of consultants, possible involvement in major purchases such as vehicles and involvement with negotiations for service contracts whenever possible and appropriate, Commission Chair Peter Foldvary said. Foldvary said as CIP projects come up, they will come before the Commission for consideration. When staff comes up with the need for

    certain capital improvement projects in these categories then they will first present it to the commission at a very early stage and then there will be ongoing discussions as the project goes forward, Foldvary said. In Issue #586, the Weekly reported that the Public Works Commissions involvement in negotiations of a six-year no-bid contract with Crown Disposal in December 2010 led to a savings of approximately $3.9 million over the life of the contract.

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    obligation is for installing public art on their properties or donating to the fine art fund. The commission held a special meeting May 4 to consider revisions to the ordinance with the Terri Smooke goal of clarifying language to make expectations clearer to developers in terms of providing public art to the City. Commission Chair Terri Smooke said the commission is going through the ordinance line by line. briefs cont. on page 6

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    Having proved itself as an effective negotiating body in the past, the Public Works Commission has been tapped to become more involved in fiscal aspects of capital improvement projects. Based on direction from the City Council, a subcommittee of Vice Chair Joe Shooshani and Commissioner Barry Pressman met with staff to discuss how the commission could

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