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minutes 02-09-00Page 22 of 41 the same kind of guidelines as the way I see the world, more from the private sector, and look at what’s a fair and realistic salary level for these. But I can’t think of any reason why they shouldn’t, other than just politically, I’d rather it didn’t appear on the list, just because it seems a little more controversial, but I don’t have any reason not to support it. Marni. HERKES: Point of clarification. I’m not sure I understand your amendment. Was your amendment to include this complete list? YOSHIYAMA: Yes, correct. HERKES: The complete list. Did the amendment include changing the Safety Coordinator’s designation to Director? YOSHIYAMA: No. HERKES: So, we haven’t done that. Okay. BESS: And one other suggestion on that point. Basically, we’d be just changing the Safety Coordinator’s position, but we could say ‘such other Directors and Coordinators as provided in the Charter’, and again, I’m proceeding from the assumption that we’re going to do something about the physicians. But maybe that’s a false assumption. HERKES: Well, we are. We’re including them in the motion. BESS: Okay. I’m going to vote against. HERKES: Because of the physicians? BESS: Yes, and because of the whole list. I mean, I think there’s a way of handling this to make it more palatable to the - SANTANGELO: They won’t put all that in here. If I understand right, Mr. Yuen, you said that this can be worded in which we don’t have to list these with this long protracted thing. YUEN: You have two ways to do this, the way the motions are stated. The way Gary’s motion is stated, you would have to say, not exactly, but something like ‘Department Head, First Deputy and Physician and Band Director would be set by the Salary Commission’. IRVINE: And Safety Coordinator? YUEN: No, I would word it in a way that the Safety Coordinator would be included as a Department Head, as long as the Safety Coordinator was not moved into Civil Service. If the Safety Coordinator was moved, the Safety Coordinator, by any stretch of the imagination, is not going to be a Department Head. Now, the way Marni’s motion was stated, the Charter Amendment would just say, not exactly, but something like ‘Department Heads and First Deputies’, and it would include everybody on the list except the physicians and the Band, and if the Safety Coordinator is moved to the Civil Service, then it won’t include the Safety Coordinator. SANTANGELO: One other question, if I could direct one at Michael. Mr. Ben, if the physicians aren’t on this list, there’s all kinds of ways to handle that. You can go out for an RFP. There’s other ways to hire people, is there not? These are full time people? HERKES: No, but they’re County employees. SANTANGELO: But they’re County employees. BEN: They are County employees, yes. SANTANGELO: But I’m saying, if they’re left out and there’s disgruntlement about that, there’s other ways to solve that problem. file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 02-09-00.html7/1/2011