Meetings and Committees

• Limit amount of time spent in meetings
• Establish moratorium on all meetings for a limited time
• Clarify roles of committees
• Define committees’ advisory and decision-making authorities
• Eliminate committees which overlap department authorities and budgetary processes
• Prevent staff from sitting on opposing committees (conflict of interest)

All government—indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act—is founded on compromise and barter.
- Edmund Burke

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
- Will Rogers