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minutes 02-05-00Page 23 of 66 HIGASHI: If we can amend Section 6-1.2 with the Managing Director’s description under Maui 8-1.2, I would have no objections to the other parts. RAY: In response to that, I really wasn’t not only not wed to this arts and science of government management. That doesn’t really appeal to me that much. It’s just that I couldn’t think of anything else. That was just one of the examples. MARTIN: See what you get for being cute? IRVINE: I, kind of, like that. HIGASHI: We still have the Mayor form of government, and he’s going to appoint somebody who’s going to implement these things, but I think that, if you adopt, in my opinion, somebody with experience in administrative capability both in public or private, I’ll buy that. And as far as item (d), I have no objections to that. I think we’re heading in the right direction. RAY: Sue. IRVINE: I guess, on (d), what Marni mentioned about appoint the necessary staff, is there some way we can state that so you could go - HERKES: Secure? YUEN: I have a suggestion for that. And that is that you already have it at the top here, and it was interesting to me that under our Charter, there’s nothing that says the Managing Director has to have necessary staff, and I think the Managing Director does not actually head up a Department of Management. That’s why I asked, and I was trying to think, they have two people. So, you don’t need to say in (d) that you have necessary staff to do (d) because you have necessary staff up at the very top, and so they can appoint necessary staff to do any of the functions that they have. RAY: More input? Steve. BESS: I just thought that it might be helpful to assist the executive agencies in improving their performance, and make one suggestion, bi-annual reports to the Mayor and the Council on the findings. And likewise, it may be necessary to put in some time provisions on the Police Commission and the Fire Commission, as well. Or the other alternative is to make it so that the Fire Commission and Police Commission could request the Managing Director to go ahead and do that, and that he should report in response to that. IRVINE: We can put the Police and Fire in one sentence, saying Police Commission and Fire Commission will be reported to when their respective departments are - pardon? SANTANGELO: Don’t we have to wait until we have a Fire Commission? IRVINE: Well, that’s the kind of language that we’re going to let the Corporation Counsel straighten out after we get done, right? If there is no Fire Commission, we’re going to let him or her take that out, hopefully. YUEN: You have to put a little footnote in this, and this is one of the tricky things about the ballot. Actually, I think what I would say is, probably, all Commissions would prepare an annual report and just leave out Police and Fire, but then you have Liquor and Civil Service, but yes, you could make them have an annual report too. MARTIN: Yes, we had twelve meetings. Thank you very much. YUEN: Yes. Well, the Executive Commissions would produce an annual report. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. That solves your problem of whether or not you have a Fire Commission, which you’re not going to know until the voters vote. IRVINE: Okay. RAY: In regard to Steve’s concern about spelling out the review periods. There again, if you use Maui as a model on this, their Cost of Government Commission is bi-annual, so whether you had a Commission or not, that’s another discussion. file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 02-05-00.html7/1/2011