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<br />recruit the type of people -. Only when you have an elect system, you have stupid people who will take
<br />less. But that -, the City Manager is not working for ego rewards. But so, you know, and the other thing
<br />is a lot of the City Manager systems has a system which once the City Manager’s appointed, they
<br />appoint everybody without confirmation from anybody else.
<br />HERKES: Right.
<br />YAMASHIRO: So, you know, once you appoint the City Manager, he appoints the Chief Engineer, he
<br />appoints the Finance Director, and you just -. Most of those are like contracts; you just don’t get rid of
<br />them because you change majority of the Council or whatever, you have to have cause. The contract has
<br />to be expired or something like that. So you may have somebody that looks good going in that you may
<br />not be happy with, and you may be stuck with them for a while, you know. Like football coaches at the
<br />University of Hawaii, you may have to buy them out.
<br />HERKES: Okay. Thank you.
<br />RAY: George.
<br />MARTIN: No questions.
<br />RAY: Gary.
<br />YOSHIYAMA: You have quite a few agencies, I don’t know if you call them, within the Mayor’s
<br />Office. Are you comfortable in that? You know, like Civil Defense and Housing and Transportation,
<br />right? They come -.
<br />YAMASHIRO: They come under the Mayor’s Office, yeah.
<br />YOSHIYAMA: Yeah.
<br />YAMASHIRO: That has, you know, that structurally can go any other place. The present Transportation
<br />is there because it’s been an experimental agency for, I don’t know, Steve was probably Corp. Counsel,
<br />maybe it started before him, but at least 20 years. The people are now Civil Service except for the bus
<br />drivers, and so, you know, there is still a question whether or not we’re going to -, we should continue
<br />that or just privatize that whole thing.
<br />Some things like Civil Defense, because actually I am the Civil Defense Director for the County, Harry
<br />Kim is the Civil Defense Administrator for the County of Hawaii, but under the -, the four Mayors are
<br />the Deputy Civil Defense Directors for the State of Hawaii under General Richardson, and so, actually, I
<br />am the responsible party in that situation. So, you know, that makes sense in that section.
<br />Aging is there now. Aging is under the Mayor’s Office. It’s functionally actually under Parks, so that
<br />could change.
<br />But besides Transit and Civil Defense and Safety, I think the others could be moved around.
<br />YOSHIYAMA: I got one more question on commissions. You got any feelings on, you know,
<br />commissions, number of commissions, types of commissions?
<br />YAMASHIRO: Well, we got -, you got two types of commissions, basically, those that are charter or
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