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MS. NICHOLSON: <br />I–County code review/update schedule. <br />MS. O’HARA: <br />We recommend the county establish a schedule for reviewing and <br />updating the County Code. <br />MS. NICHOLSON: <br />Does that work for everybody? J –Permanent Deputy Director <br />positions. Actually I have some mixed feelings about this one. The recommendation <br />was that the deputy directors of departments not be appointed but be regular county <br />employees. Civil service employees. How do you feel about this one? <br />MS. O’HARA: <br />I personally am not in favor of including that one. <br />MS. NICHOLSON: <br />I’m not. I feel like there’s probably another side of the story that I <br />would like to hear before I’d like to include it, but how do you guys feel. <br />MR. ARMOUR: <br />I don’t have enough information on it. <br />MS. NICHOLSON: <br />Again, we could include it in the draft. We could see what kind of <br />feedback we get in it. We could choose to study it a little bit more and maybe talk to <br />some other people and get some more feedback. We can leave it as is. We can <br />elaborate on it. We can take it out. What’s your feeling? I would like to take that out <br />personally. <br />MR. MATSUDA: <br />I’m sort of leaning towards that. The idea of having a permanent <br />deputy director is, well it was explained. But you want a director who can work with the <br />deputy director also. Again, like everybody else, at this point, I have mixed feelings on <br />this, but it would be good. The idea is good to have the continuity as far as the <br />department is concerned as to what’s going on cause you have the deputy director who <br />is already working there. But what if he can’t work with the director? <br />MS. NICHOLSON: <br />We could phrase it so that we encourage the county to explore the <br />merits of making the deputy directors civil service positions. And so we’re at least <br />saying there might be some merit in this. Take a look at it. <br />MR. MATSUDA: <br />Yeah. Then if the person, the director who is coming in will already <br />know who is the deputy director, so he’ll already know whether he can work with that <br />person. <br />MS. NICHOLSON: <br />Gloria? <br />MS. WONG: <br />No preference. <br />MS. NICHOLSON: <br />Ken? Well how about we rephrase to recommending that the <br />county explore the merits of making the deputy director positions a regular civil service <br />position. <br />MR. MATSUDA: <br />And they can take it from there. <br />39 <br /> <br />