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<br />RAY: Other questions for Mr. Takahashi? Thank you very much, Harry. And next we have Mr. Sumada,
<br />the Deputy Chief Engineer, to represent the Public Works Department. Thank you very much for
<br />coming, Jiro.
<br />SUMADA: You’re welcome. I’m sorry I don’t have a handout for everybody.
<br />HERKES: Oh, we don’t?
<br />SUMADA: But I’m sure I can put one together fairly quickly for you folks’ review.
<br />RAY: This is a preliminary review, and we are just really trying to get the red flag, you know, major
<br />areas of, you know, interests or concerns, or things we might be focused on, so that’s what this level of
<br />review is.
<br />SUMADA: Okay.
<br />RAY: And then as we march through the Charter, after we get a level of input from the departments and
<br />the public, then we’ll, you know, have you there as a resource, as well. So, is there anything, you know,
<br />you want to bring to the Charter Commission today in regard to, you know, specifics in the Charter that
<br />you think we might take a look at?
<br />SUMADA: I think the Mayor may have presented the one that affects Public Works already.
<br />RAY: That’s the subdivision?
<br />SUMADA: Right.
<br />RAY: Okay. You want to go over that? He did mention it, yeah.
<br />SUMADA: I don’t know what he called it, but it’s been called a variety of things, create a division
<br />within Public Works called Division of Permitting or Land Use and Code. Basically, what it does, it
<br />combines certain functions within the Planning Department, namely the subdivisions, and zoning as it
<br />affects building permits, combining that with the certain regulatory functions within our Engineering
<br />Division and the Building Department when residents and commercial people apply for building
<br />permits. So, basically, if you have any permitting that people have to do as far as their land goes or their
<br />-, how they use their property, it’s a one-stop shopping, basically. So we’re not advising people to stop
<br />at five different offices, they just come to one place, for the most part, and they can get their building
<br />permit processed. We have the appropriate staff that could be cross-trained in the different areas so,
<br />basically, they don’t have to be going upstairs, downstairs, across the hallway, they just come to the
<br />Department of Public Works, or specifically, this division of -, I would call it Division of Permitting, to
<br />get all their concerns addressed and permits processed. Basically, that’s the only one that the Mayor has
<br />identified.
<br />The other one was the combination of Wastewater Division with Department of Water Supply, but my
<br />understanding is Mr. Wurdeman from Corporation Council is going to present that. But I can address
<br />any concerns if you have on either one.
<br />RAY: Well, as soon as you could, you know, give us some information on it, just kind of a draft, a
<br />scenario, something in writing -.
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