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minutes 02-05-00Page 9 of 66
<br />RAY: Yes sir.
<br />HIGASHI: I’d like to just move back, several months back, remember the Board of Water Supply and the Department of
<br />Sewers were negotiating an agreement -
<br />RAY: To handle by billing?
<br />HIGASHI: To handle by billing, and we were holding this issue as, kind of, a vehicle to encourage them to move along
<br />faster, so I think we should, kind of, follow up to see how they are doing on that.
<br />RAY: To see what progress is being made, or not?
<br />HIGASHI: Yes.
<br />RAY: Anybody need a lua, coffee break? No? The next one. This may be a surprise too. Department of Public Safety. We’ll
<br />ask Ms. Herkes to lead the conversation here.
<br />HIGASHI: Let’s move to the Fire Commission.
<br />HERKES: Roland wants to move to the Fire Commission first, and that’s probably not a bad idea because it does effect this.
<br />When I lay out the way the Charter is arranged now, we have, under the Mayor, R&D, Planning, Finance, and Corporation
<br />Counsel. And under the Managing Director is Department of Public Works, and Parks and Rec, and Fire. And we would
<br />move Fire, if we adopted a commission, under Commissions. So Commissions would be Civil Service, Police, Liquor, Water,
<br />and Fire.
<br />RAY: That’s why I sent out this memo with language from Maui County in terms of the possibility of rearranging the whole
<br />Executive section of the Charter, because unless there’s a reason not to do that, that seems to be, in my mind anyway, a
<br />cleaner way to do it, and to put the Managing Director as the overall management executive for all the departments. It’s the
<br />same powers that exist in our Charter, but it’s arranged differently, and they don’t seem to have felt the need to put it in three
<br />separate sections the way we have. Because their Commissions, the Fire, the Police, operate pretty much the same way ours
<br />do, and they don’t have it in a separate section. So I don’t know that we need to worry about that. We’re going to discuss that
<br />further anyway.
<br />HIGASHI: The reason I asked Marni to take the Fire Commission first, if that’s the will of this group to put it in, then we
<br />know exactly what we’re dealing with. Because if there is no Commission, we’re going to have to deal with this differently.
<br />RAY: Okay. I thought we’d already voted on that.
<br />MARTIN: I thought we did too.
<br />RAY: I believe we voted at the last meeting to move forward with the Fire Commission per the language submitted by Gary.
<br />MARTIN: And you were going to find out some information on it.
<br />HERKES: I think we deferred the vote because we just got the document that day.
<br />IRVINE: I know we were going to talk with Honolulu about whether their system worked well because we were using their
<br />language, and there was some question about -
<br />RAY: We have already gotten that input, Sue, that they seem to be very happy, the City and County, with the way it’s
<br />working. We got that early on in the process.
<br />IRVINE: Okay.
<br />YUEN: It was passed. I thought it was, and on page 50, it was passed as a preliminary vote to have a Fire Commission per
<br />Gary’s draft, and then I think I jumped in with a little bit on suggesting modification of the procedure for removal of the
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