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TORIGOE:Well, I suggest that you all get copies of this and we m <br />you to spend reviewing it. Because as Mr. Vitousek noted, it's really in everybody's interest that <br />this hearing be done efficiently that way. <br />DAVID:Madam -? <br />GIFFIN:Maile. <br />DAVID:Chair? Yes, while we are on the subject of scheduling and raising issues, I <br />think that the issue I wanted to raise, I should raise it now. I think it's an appropriate time. And <br />the reason I feel this way is because I had a question as to Mr. Vitousek mentioning the extended <br />terms of the Hearings Officers. <br />GIFFIN:Yes. <br />DAVID:And my question is the, Mr. Togashi's term and your term -? <br />GIFFIN:Yes. <br />DAVID:Expired December what? <br />GIFFIN:Thirty-first. <br />DAVID:Thirty-first. Mr. Togashi's appointment, replacement has been appointed? <br />GIFFIN:Yes. <br />DAVID:Okay. And your, you are on a 90-day extension, extended t <br />speak? <br />GIFFIN:I do believe the County has a replacement for me, as well <br />DAVID:I see. Then my question would be whether this hearing, yo <br />Hearings Officers are the, you know, are the appropriate people to be listening to this. And I <br />don't mean to -, it just concerns me because a lot of testimony and a lot of effort is being put into <br />this; and I'd like that clarified for me. <br />GIFFIN:Mr. Torigoe. <br />TORIGOE:Yeah, at the, excuse me, at a prior hearing on this matter, the Planning <br />Commission actually authorized these three persons to function as Hearings Officers, even <br />beyond the end of their terms. As you probably know, the Planning Commission has authority to <br />authorize and even hire people to function as Hearings Officers who aren't even on the <br />Commission. And so, you know, you don't necessarily have to be a current Commissioner to be <br />a Hearings Officer, so -. <br />21 <br /> <br />