that the board meets as often as possible to be able to meet any employee grievance or
appeal; and secondly, the meeting time. He noted he appreciates the concern of Janice Scott
who spoke at the April 5, 2022, meeting and included that a minimum of 75 percent of
meetings must be held during regular business hours; she said not everyone could make
business hours, so this would make one of those meetings take place outside of that; on
meeting locations, all meetings will be held at government facilities, annual reports, a uniform
summary one-page report will be required of all County advisory boards and published in a
regular agenda as well as posted online annually; staff time and expenditures for all of the
boards other than those mandated by the federal law, staff time will be billed at $50 per hour,
indexed annually with Consumer Price Index (CPI), and a cap of $3,000 for staff costs per year;
and staff time includes, but is not limited to, attend those meetings, research, communication,
and other tasks done on behalf of, or in relation to, a request made by a member of the
advisory board. He stated for all boards, mandatory or not, all staff time requests must be
made through the advisory board chair on behalf of the advisory board to the designated staff
liaison; the attendance policy, an appointee who is absent 50 percent of the advisory board
meetings at the end of the appointees current term is cause for immediate dismissal from said
board; he expressed his thanks to Commissioner Smith who was concerned about the sunset
provision that was discussed last time, however, has been removed from the current one, and
he does not plan on putting that back in, so there is no sunset here; he advised Commissioner
Smith is absolutely correct, future boards can remove that without the cause in there; and
exceptions due to extenuating circumstances can be handled administratively by the County
Manager. He stated he is happy to answer any questions, but the motion will be to approve
legislative intent and permission to advertise for a public hearing for proposed amendments to
Chapter 2, Brevard County Code of Ordinances relating to the advisory board regulations.
Kristin Lortie stated there are three things in this that she thinks are reasonable; one is the
annual report, she believes that is a reasonable request; having the website information
accessible; 50 percent attendance also seems reasonable; the list is much longer of the things
she does not find reasonable; and one of them is meeting frequency. She went on to say the
County has a lot of boards that meet more than four times a year; this is pennies on the dollar
the Commission is chasing to try to save the County money; she heavily disagrees with that;
the meeting times being 75 percent during the day, that could really interrupt a board; and if
there are several boards that do meet in the evening, and 75 percent of their meetings have to
be during the day, she sees that disruptive to the board. She noted she does not understand
why the meetings have to be disrupted like this; they are meeting throughout the County now;
now everyone is troubled to go and find a County building in order to meet; she asked what the
purpose is; and $50 an hour, as she said before, she is skeptical about these rates. She
pointed out these rates are not real extra rates that go to the taxpayer, it is just the County
saying it does not wants its staff to be troubled by working on these advisory boards; another
thing crossed out is keeping accurate meeting minutes; she does not understand why that
would be; there are also cross outs for committees that she does not understand; and all
requests by the chair for information, to some extent a person can say that maybe seems
reasonable. She asked what if there is a chair that is not doing that great of a job, and there is
a board member who is more diligent and wants to request information, what is the process for
them if the chair decides their request is not prudent; she advised she sees a lot of problems
with this request for what she sees as not much gain; she inquired if that can just be requested
from these boards to receive an annual report, the Commission would like to have the website
put up, and if there is really a problem with 50 percent attendance; even the potential
inspiration has been to 50 percent of the meetings for this policy; and she is not an advocate of
punitive policy that could be disruptive to the advisory boards, so she is opposed to this policy.
Ron Jurgutis stated as he has been told in the past by some, a County employee works for the
County, certainly has to address issues to the Commission, but also works for the taxpayer;
regardless of the board, if they are salaried employees, they are still going to be paid; as the
