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minutes 12-04-99Page 19 of 39 <br />County, that can do a fine job. The thing is our mind set sometimes doesn’t allow it because they’re possibly young or we <br />perceive that they don’t have the experience. I think that we do, and we should explore them if we can somehow. <br />RAY: Steve, would you be willing to take on the task? <br />BESS: I’d like to get together with some other people on a subcommittee of whoever might be interested, and let’s meet <br />separately. <br />RAY: Who would be interested? Marni. <br />BESS: Roland. Marni? <br />HERKES: Yes. <br />BESS: Are you interested? <br />RAY: Yes, I’m interested. Okay, good. <br />Moving on to the Department of Permitting. George, you had something to say? <br />MARTIN: Yes. When these people came with this idea, and they brought forth that flow chart that they had, it looked pretty <br />good. I almost bit into it. The problem I have is that they can do what they wanted to do right now. There’s nothing stopping <br />them, and they should be doing what they’re proposing to be doing. If they can’t work together, what makes them think that a <br />Charter Amendment would make them do anything different, and these people talking about being professionals, these <br />people should be doing what they want to do without the Charter. I think it should be a moot issue. <br />RAY: Aren’t we headed in the direction where rather than trying to mandate, or dictate, what would happen, we would just <br />make changes in the Charter that would allow it to happen, if that’s the way the Administration wanted to go, and leave it up <br />to them? Isn’t that where we are with that? <br />BESS: Yes. <br />HERKES: What kind of changes do we need? When they start to do it, if they run into some barriers? <br />RAY: Yes, I think mandating that subdivisions are done in the Planning Department, or whatever. Wasn’t it discussed that <br />we might take that out, and then that would remove a barrier, if that’s the way the Administration wants to go, rather than the <br />Charter Commission saying this is the way it’s going to be. So leave it up to the Administration, and the Council to approve <br />it. Right? <br />HIGASHI: So we agreed to delete the areas that are specific in nature? <br />RAY: I think Chris has got a handle on this. He’s met with them, and let’s see what he comes up with, but I believe that’s a <br />consensus, right? <br />KUROZAWA: Right. <br />IRVINE: Correct. <br />RAY: The suggestion of putting the Wastewater branch in the Department of Public Works, the Water Department. I think, at <br />our last meeting we heard that the billing issue would be resolved, or that they could, and would resolve it. They assured us <br />that they would. So that seemed to be the major conflict there. <br />HIGASHI: Did we get something back from them that they resolved it or not? <br />SANTANGELO: It’s going to be beyond our - <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 12-04-99.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />