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<br />PAVAO: Correct. As a matter of fact, it goes on further to say that any State appropriations or Federal
<br />grants also go into that fund, and that fund is for the sole purpose of maintaining, operating CIP water
<br />systems.
<br />HIGASHI: So you have a separate fund. You have a General Fund and you have a water fund?
<br />PAVAO: No, no, no. That water fund that you referred to is the fund managed by the Treasurer. We
<br />submit our funds to them. They keep it in a separate fund, and they invest it like they would invest their
<br />funds, but it’s a separate fund.
<br />HIGASHI: I see. So, Department of Water Supply’s fund, is that -
<br />PAVAO: Correct.
<br />HIGASHI: So, it’s not co-mingled with the General Fund?
<br />PAVAO: No, it’s not. It’s entirely separate.
<br />HIGASHI: My other question was to follow up with the Commission, if they had recommended any
<br />changes.
<br />RAY: Yes, I’d like to do that as well, but any more questions for these gentlemen right now? What
<br />we’re going to do is I want to take a short break and then get the Police in here so they can go home, and
<br />then, if you want to stick around, I think we are going to talk about this more among ourselves, and just
<br />kind of see where we stand on this.
<br />IRVINE: John, I did have one more question. I hate to hold us up, but you’ve been talking about how
<br />Water is just a drinking water department, but it talks about a Department of Water Supply in the
<br />Charter, and it doesn’t say anything just about drinking water. Is that just, in fact, what you’ve become,
<br />and why Sewers weren’t put there in the first place?
<br />PAVAO: Traditionally, as far as I know, the Department of Water Supply has maintained, and
<br />concentrated, their efforts 100% on providing good, clean, dependable, quality water. That’s been, kind
<br />of, pushed to us more and more by all the EPA mandates that come down regarding quality water. EPA
<br />does not send the Department of Water Supply sewer mandates, or any other type of mandates.
<br />Everything we have pertains to the Safe Drinking Water Act and it’s amendments.
<br />HERKES: John, I looked up waterworks, as to what that actually means, in the dictionary, and it’s a
<br />system where reservoirs, channels, mains, pumping and purifying equipment by which a water supply is
<br />obtained and distributed. So that doesn’t restrict itself to drinking water either.
<br />RAY: Okay. Sure, well, let Gary ask a question.
<br />YOSHIYAMA: I had a question on Section 8-3, Manager and Deputy. It doesn’t speak to wastewater.
<br />So, you want to hold off on that, John, until later?
<br />RAY: Yes.
<br />YOSHIYAMA: Okay.
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