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Councilman James Y Arakaki <br /> December 18, 2000 <br /> Page 2 <br /> Webster's defines "administration" as: <br /> 1. The act or process of administering; <br /> 2. Performance of executive duties: Management; <br /> 3 The execution of public affairs as distinguished from policy making; <br /> 4 a) A body of persons who admimster; <br /> b) Cap: a group constituting the political executive in a presidential <br /> govemment, <br /> c) A govemmental agency or boazd, <br /> 5. The term of office of an administrative officer or body. <br /> The Random House Dictionary defines "admimster" as "to manage(affairs, a <br /> govemment, etc.); have executive charge of." <br /> Thus, the most commonly accepted definition of "administrative," and the related <br /> words "administration" and "administer," is "executive." <br /> For my administrative qualifications, Irely primarily on my eight years as the <br /> Hawazi Island member of the Boazd of Land and Natural Resources, which, by law, is an <br /> "executive board" which manages the Department of Land and Natural Resources. <br /> There may be some misconceptions about the BLNR because it is so different <br /> from most other state and county boazds and commissions. The BLNR has direct <br /> managenal and executive responsibility over the Department of Land and Natural <br /> Resources. To make a comparison, although the County Planning Commission, like the <br /> BLNR, has important permit-granting functions, it does not have executive <br /> responsibilities over the Planning Department. <br /> According to the State Constitution, art. XI, sec. 2, the BLNR is the "executive board" <br /> responsible for the administration of the natural resources of the state, including state land. <br /> H.R.S. §26-15, defines the BLNR as the "executive board" which heads the Department of Land <br /> and Natural Resources, which must "manage and administer" the public lands of the state and all <br /> water and coastal lands of the state. H.R.S § 171-3 has almost identical provisions. <br /> You will note that all of the vanous laws that define the functions of the BLNR use the <br /> <br /> teen "executive," which is synonymous with "admuiistrative," and use the term "administer" <br /> with respect to the duties of the BLNR To give another example, our County General Plan says <br /> <br /> that "in the Conservation distnct, land uses are administered by the Boazd of Land and Natural <br /> Resources " Support Document at 79. <br /> The BLNR is ultimately responsible for the planning for the use of most state <br /> lands See H.R.S. §171-32, 33, 34, which set out some of the BLNR's planning <br /> <br />