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minutes 03-08-00Page 13 of 35 Would it then make it more palatable. RAY: Right. HERKES: It would, too. MARTIN: Isn’t that our job? HERKES: Unfortunately. RAY: Yes. Okay, 3. Strengthen the authority of County Managing Director. Everybody take a look at that. Chris, in Section 6-1.3, under Powers, Duties and Functions, (c) and (d); aren’t those new? YUEN: I thought we had taken this out of the County of Maui powers. RAY: We did. Shouldn’t it be underlined in ours? YUEN: No, it’s all replaced. I wrote at the top that - RAY: I just thought, because the other ones were already there. I guess that’s what I’m trying to differentiate, because those were ones we pulled out of County of Maui. I think everything else is in our Charter. YUEN: For some of these, where we were really practically redoing the sections, and in this one in particular, rather than doing the underlining, bracketing business, I wrote at the top ‘Existing Art. VI, Chap. 1 would be replaced as follows.’ I could run this again with the underlining, bracketing, but I thought it a little easier to do it that way. RAY: Let me finish. My thought is just when we’re explaining this, I thought it would be good to point out the changes, the additions, and so under the description of the Managing Director, ‘confirmed by the council’ is something that is significantly different. And then, also, the qualifications, this ‘professional experience in the art and science of management as required of this office’, that’s new language, and are (c) and (d). Just going through it a couple of nights ago, I just checked those off as things that I think would be good to point out when we’re explaining this. IRVINE: I think you’re right. Whether they are underlined or not, I don’t know if that’s necessary, but we really should let people know what’s changing there because otherwise they’re going to think we’re rewriting the whole chapter because they won’t have the Charter with them. RAY: Roland. HIGASHI: When we talked about this arts and science, I don’t believe we ever enacted that part unless you came to another meeting where I wasn’t there. RAY: I was going to ask Chris about that. I’m not clear. This is under 6-1.2 Managing Director, the last clause in there. It says ‘and/or professional - HERKES: ‘The art and science of management as required of the office’. I have it written down. RAY: I had a question mark on that. HIGASHI: We originally had it as a thing. We deleted it. YUEN: What I’ll do is I’ll go back because I thought that was at the Waimea meeting where these things were adopted. HIGASHI: I think I made the motion. HERKES: But I like it, and I’m unhappy there’s not more qualifications. file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 03-08-00.html7/1/2011