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minutes 10-13-99Page 23 of 31 <br />RAY: Okay. <br />MAHUNA: I’m Assistant Chief Lawrence Mahuna representing the Police Department. <br />RAY: Excuse me. Assistant Chief. Do you want to go over the proposed Amendments from the <br />Commission, Mr. Okabe? Do you have these - <br />OKABE: No, I do not. I don’t have that form. <br />RAY: Are you familiar with them? <br />OKABE: Yes, we had a Public Hearing on that particular thing, but when I came here today, I thought <br />other Commissioners were going to be here today, so they called me up to come down because Sharon <br />Scheele got this letter from, I believe it was, Sharron Henry. I don’t know if she called you, or anything, <br />but this is a last minute thing. They just called me up at school, but if you have any questions about any <br />of the proposals. <br />RAY: Basically, we have the proposed Charter Amendments from the Police Commission which, pretty <br />much across the board, the Police Department disagrees with. So, all of you have this information? Do <br />you have any questions for either one of these folks? Roland. <br />HIGASHI: It seems to me, Mr. Okabe, that the Amendment you had, and what’s in the Charter, is <br />already redundant and you just rearranged it. Is there any reason for that? <br />OKABE: No. I mean, we reviewed the Charter and what had happened was we had discussed it with <br />Corporation Counsel to make it clearer, so we did readjust some things in the present language. So we <br />didn’t make a radical change but we just - <br />HIGASHI: Rearranged it in different sections. <br />OKABE: Yes. <br />HIGASHI: Is there a reason for that? <br />OKABE: No, when one of the members of the Commission had brought it up, they’d asked Corporation <br />Counsel to look into this matter to make it cleaner. <br />HIGASHI: You have a section in there where the Commission had to review and approve of all <br />legislative matters for the Department. What’s the rationale on that? <br />OKABE: Which one is this? The second page? <br />HIGASHI: Yes. <br />OKABE: We oppose the proposal of subparagraph - <br />MAHUNA: No, that’s - <br />OKABE: Which one? <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 10-13-99.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />