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minutes 12-04-99Page 28 of 39 <br />IRVINE: That’s right. Gary said in his letter, I will be happy to answer questions. I’ll be happy to respond to any questions <br />you might have. Sincerely, Gary Yoshiyama. Quote, end quote. <br />YOSHIYAMA: Okay. <br />IRVINE: On a more serious basis, though, one of my hesitations on setting up another Commission, or whatever, we had a <br />long talk about how difficult it is to find people to serve on Commissions, and went round and round and round. And I did <br />make a list of how many people we do have on Boards and Commissions, and how many would have to be appointed every <br />how often, but this would be adding. <br />HERKES: Not if we did the Public Safety Commission. <br />IRVINE: Yes, if we go with the Public Safety, it would not, but if we add a Fire, it will be adding. <br />YOSHIYAMA: John, can I just respond to that. <br />RAY: Yes, Gary. <br />YOSHIYAMA: I think we talked about, Sue, at least I talked about it the last time, about this very subject, was we already <br />have an EMS Commission, and then we could marry those two together, the Fire and the EMS. And the EMS is a County <br />Committee. <br />IRVINE: Is it appointed by the Mayor? <br />YOSHIYAMA: Right. <br />IRVINE: We could just upgrade it to a Commission? <br />YOSHIYAMA: Yes. It is advisory at this point. <br />MARTIN: So we couple the two together to become a Commission. <br />IRVINE: So it is something that gets appointed. <br />HIGASHI: When you put it together, just keep in mind that they exist because a single issue Commission is strictly advisory <br />to the State, not to the County, but advisory to the State. We, kind of, contract with the State with EMS contract. <br />BESS: Two private entities. <br />RAY: So that’s one possibility. Whether that would work or not, I don’t know. <br />HERKES: And I want to say that as we go through this discussion, I do think that all of these public safety things should be <br />under one entity, rather than the Mayor and the Managing Director; the Mayor or the Managing Director. <br />IRVINE: Marni, the one thing that Chris Yuen had said to us concerning the Police Commission is that he thinks they need to <br />stay in the Police Department because, therefore, they are privy to information which they might not be if they were out of <br />the purview of the department. Did you pick that up previously? <br />HERKES: No, I didn’t. <br />IRVINE: Well, if Chris were here, he could tell us. It’s like the department has to let them know certain information because <br />they’re part of the department, but they wouldn’t have to let them know that if they were out of the department. I think it has <br />to do with collective bargaining, and this might be a problem with trying to combine several Commissions, if they weren’t <br />going to be connected to the Police. <br />HERKES: You’re right. <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 12-04-99.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />