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minutes 03-08-00Page 20 of 35 <br />RAY: That’s what would make sense to me, then you wouldn’t have that top trigger. <br />IRVINE: Right. <br />RAY: My thought was we were proposing, you’re right, Roland, an advisory Commission. But so that we don’t red flag, we <br />could take that top - <br />HERKES: Take ‘advisory’ out. And then ‘confirmed by the Council’ out, also? <br />RAY: Yes. <br />HERKES: Yes. <br />HIGASHI: What we also might consider in Environmental Services is to have nine Commissioners and kind of detail some <br />kind of professional background, if we want to, or is it want to be a lay body? <br />IRVINE: Lay body, please. <br />HERKES: I don’t. I want a professional body, but obviously, we’re going to butt heads here. <br />HIGASHI: Yes, I mean that’s kind of a different school of thought, yeah? You can describe it to various educational, or <br />vocational - <br />IRVINE: We’ve had a lot of engineers working on this for quite a while in our County and nothing gets done, so I think - <br />HERKES: We’ve had a lot of volunteers too, and nothing’s been done either. <br />IRVINE: That’s right, but they are advisory. That’s why I think we ought to give them a little more - <br />HERKES: More rope? <br />HIGASHI: I mean that’s another food for thought in terms of creating this new department. In the State Commissions, they <br />kind of spell out certain people should be from a profession, some people from the public sector. So, who was the brain child <br />of this one? <br />HERKES: Sue. <br />RAY: Anything else for now on 5.? <br />MARTIN: So, how are we going to present it on Saturday? <br />RAY: That we’re not entirely resolved on all this. <br />IRVINE: I think the public will be very happy to see that we haven’t got everything settled. <br />HERKES: That’s why I said I thought it was a mistake not to just put it on the web and let them look at it. Say ‘draft’ across <br />each page. <br />RAY: Moving on, 6. and 10. Planning Department Functions/Planning Commission Powers. Chris, can you explain the <br />subdivision section? <br />YUEN: Right now, the Charter gives the Planning Director certain powers with respect to subdivisions, and there’s been talk <br />about re-organizing this so that it would fall under the Department of Public Works, or possibly be shared with the <br />Department of Public Works. In any event, there would have to be an ordinance passed to do this because beside the Charter <br />saying the Planning Director approves the subdivisions, the Subdivision Code says the same thing, naturally, because that’s <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 03-08-00.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />