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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, January 29, 2018 Page 14 Mrs. Mills replied, yes. All the time. Council President Saponaro stated, then Mrs. Mills, if this is something you would take on that would be greatly appreciated. Mr. Schutt, if you could serve as an alternate? Mr. Schutt replied, sure. Council President Saponaro stated, Mrs. Mills, thank you. I appreciate it. The other item, I think we can approve the Committee selections, however, we did talk about Finance and Safety and Service at Caucus. Mr. Marquardt, you brought up your thoughts on that. If you would not mind repeating what we talked about since you spearheaded that? Mr. Marquardt stated, I would like to suggest we move our Finance and Safety and Service to the Caucus meeting. They were scheduled in the past. We did them separately before. It's not necessary. We just repeat everything at the Caucus meeting. There's really no purpose for those meetings. Discuss it here, get a resolution, move things forward for the Regular Council meeting and it will work just as well. Council President Saponaro asked, when you say move it to Caucus, I just want to be clear, you are saying get rid of or stop the Finance Committee and Safety and Service Committee and just handle everything in Caucus which is our workshop and the place to discuss it. Mr. Marquardt replied, right. Council President Saponaro stated, okay. I just wanted to be clear on that. What are are other Council member's thoughts and comments on that? Dr. Parker stated, in the past, obviously we have always had those two meetings sepaxately and they were on separate nights. Certain items that went before Safety and Service were referred over to Finance and sometimes things had to be reconsidered and reworked. It certainly does sound like an efficient way to do it. I am not opposed to doing it that way per se. It would reduce the amount of reiterating of issues that we talk about akeady and then have to bring it up in Caucus and then have to bring it up in Council, but there is some validity to having a separate meeting having Council representatives represent those Committees and do their work and bring that to Council. Council does not have to have everyone working on an issue to be efficient. I am not opposed to doing them all in one. I am just bringing up the idea that sometimes having those Committees separate might allow those Committees to work a little bit more efFiciently on the projects. When we bring it to Council, what we typically do is if someone had a problem after reading the Minutes, they bring it up either in the Caucus or in the Council meeting. It's worked like that for a long time. I could go either way. I don't know whether eliminating those two Committees that are probably two of the most important Committees for many many years. Is it necessarily a good thing? We could try it. We might decide we don't like it. There is some validity to keeping them separate and keeping them on separate days because they do bounce back and forth between each other in ways. Things are sent to Finance. Sometimes things are sent back to Safety and Service. I have mixed feelings on it. I mentioned it last time. It's a major move for us to do something like that. i?