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<br />PRANKE: Okay. I’ll just leave that. On page 29, you have a change, eight, I think. I would also change Section (l) under
<br />there to 90 days for Boards and Commissions. Right now it’s 45 and the Heads of Departments are 90. I would change that to
<br />be consistent because, as I’ve said before, the current Mayor has counted the days at times, put the nominated people for a
<br />Board of Commission, and the Council hasn’t had time to have the 45 days, so there are people sitting on Boards and
<br />Commissions now, a few of them, who have never been approved by the Council because the time ran out. It isn’t going to
<br />normally happen but there are months where that does happen, so I’d change that to 90 days. I mean there’s no problem with
<br />that.
<br />IRVINE: What page?
<br />PRANKE: Page 29, and change number 8, Holdover of Boards and Commissions, and I think you’re changing Section (c) or
<br />something. Change Section (l) to read 90 days for those folks. That’s a simple change.
<br />HERKES: Okay, we changed Section (d) to read 90 days.
<br />PRANKE: It would be the same as Heads of Departments then, and it’s a simple change. I will shut up now because you
<br />know I can go on and I know there’s other people here. Thank you very much. If you have any questions, please call me.
<br />RAY: James Rhodes, followed by Patti Barry.
<br />RHODES: Good morning. My name is Jim Rhodes. I’m President of the Board of Recycle Hawaii, and I’d like to thank you
<br />all for Chapter 5, Department of Environmental Services. When this originally started, the idea was to maybe get a
<br />committee, so Recycle Hawaii is very pleased to see this whole section including a department. We are submitting a letter of
<br />support of the whole chapter, and think it’s a very good idea. After looking over some of the details of it, we have some
<br />minor recommendations to make, which I’ll submit to the Secretary. It’s only some minor additions on qualifications for the
<br />Commission and for the Director, that they have some experience in the environmental fields. Also, we strongly recommend
<br />that the language stay mandatory, rather than permissive. I guess that’s still in the works, as mentioned on the bottom of the
<br />page here.
<br />RAY: The language, as written, it would be mandatory.
<br />RHODES: Yes, it’s written as mandatory. We recommend it stay mandatory. So thank you very much. We’re looking
<br />forward to helping in any way we can in the future.
<br />SANTANGELO: Jim, when you said have environmental experience, what do you mean?
<br />RHODES: I knew it wouldn’t be easy. Okay, I did suggest the addition to the Administrator was an environmental
<br />experience. This was taken from being maybe just a warm body Administrator selection to someone who maybe has had
<br />some experience in the field, and would be better suited because this is a very unique department. The reason you’re forming
<br />a new department is the uniqueness of environmental concerns, so I know you’re looking at requirements for Directors, and
<br />this would be adding on to just administrative capabilities. Down in the Commission Statement, Section 6-5.4, this is the
<br />addition that was suggested: ‘One member should be actually employed in the environmental field and the remaining
<br />members should be active participants in programs, research, or organizations in the ecological sciences’. This would give
<br />you a Commission that would be fully loaded to back up the Director, and this was the part that Recycle Hawaii was very
<br />interested in. This was where we started, and we highly recommend this approach to it so that you get the Council’s ability to
<br />select these people with a little bit more knowledge in the field.
<br />SANTANGELO: One other question about just the environmental issues. What is Legos, Snoopy, and the American Mall got
<br />to do with that?
<br />RHODES: Absolutely nothing that I know of.
<br />SANTANGELO: But it is an argument going on in your home, as I understand it.
<br />RHODES: It is, and we will resolve it by the 8th.
<br />RAY: Okay. Patti Barry, followed by George Wallace.
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