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minutes 12-04-99Page 31 of 39
<br />IRVINE: Can you bring those on Wednesday, or something, so that we could -
<br />HERKES: Yes, I will. I can bring them. In fact, they’re just right in my newsletter. I can bring the newsletter.
<br />IRVINE: We always get torn between spelling things out explicitly, and then finding people who are outside the box who are
<br />really very good at managing this or that, and that’s why I’m not sure which direction we want to go on spelling what
<br />people’s qualifications are.
<br />HERKES: The nice thing about the competencies are that they’re not specific. At the same time, I think that the performance
<br />reviews are very important, that whoever the departments are, that the performance reviews are there.
<br />RAY: So, Marni, are you suggesting that in every individual chapter, that we’d list all these things, or how would that work?
<br />MARNI: Yes, I’m suggesting in every individual chapter. When I read the Charter, and I see this one line on a department
<br />head, it bothers me. I’m thinking, boy, that’s wide open. We could do that. There’s no description of what kind of
<br />government you want in this Charter. They’ve gone overboard in the Fire Chief shall be appointed by the - well, that’s said
<br />by ordinance. That’s not a good one, but some of them, I just see - In the Public Works, now this may be in the ordinance
<br />rather than in the Charter, and that’s the question that I have. Are these things covered by ordinance, or is there so much
<br />leeway in who we hire that it is the Chief Engineer appointed by the Mayor, and it be a registered professional engineer, and
<br />powers and duties and functions prescribed by the ordinance. But, there’s no description of the kind of person, or the kind of
<br />qualifications, or what we expect from that person. And I see it to be one line, or maybe two, at the most. I don’t see it to be a
<br />paragraph.
<br />HIGASHI: Will you have that before the next meeting for us to look at?
<br />MARNI: I will have it for the next meeting.
<br />IRVINE: Good.
<br />RAY: George.
<br />MARTIN: She already read it, and thanks, Marni, for doing it, but the one concern that we had, that the other departments
<br />come into play, I guess, at some point in time, as Marni is saying that there is no consistency to follow. But, it was the
<br />registered professional engineer; that was the concern, and because of the wording that is in existence, we had, possibly, a
<br />capable person doing the job, not even being able to interview for it because he or she didn’t have that registered professional
<br />engineering. And that was the concern.
<br />HERKES: Take the Department of Finance. Just says shall be appointed by the Mayor.
<br />RAY: No, that’s one of the ones that’s covered in the later section.
<br />HERKES: That’s right. That concern has already been answered.
<br />IRVINE: Could we ask our secretary to, maybe, make a list of our departments and the qualifications that are in the present
<br />Charter for the heads of those departments?
<br />RAY: That’s on page 28, at the top of the page. It lists the Finance Director and Planning Director.
<br />HERKES: Yes.
<br />IRVINE: But there’s things elsewhere also, saying, like the Chief Engineer has to be -
<br />RAY: It’s interesting. The Managing Director is addressed here as well. They’ve got them all.
<br />IRVINE: Well, do they? Okay.
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