2000-07-12 Charter Commission Minutes

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Charter Commission - Transcript of Meeting of July 12, 2000Page 27 of 45 COMMISSIONERS: Aye. RAY: Opposed? HERKES: Mr. Chair. RAY: Yes ma’am. HERKES: I have one more thing and this is not to change the meaning or to get it defeated or anything but it bothers me in the Safety Coordinator. I guess this is because I try to phrase things positively because I work for the Chamber of Commerce, but ‘In the present Charter there is an Office of the Safety Coordinator who is responsible for workforce safety. Charter Amendment No. 6 would transfer the duties and staff of the office of the safety coordinator to the department of civil service and abolish the office.’ So, it just puts the transfer first instead of abolishing the office first. And so, in my mind, I’m thinking first is to transfer the office and then you abolish what’s left. RAY: That’s probably a good spin, yes. HERKES: It just makes it more – RAY: Yes, it does. It jumped out at me as being a little alarm bell might go off. HERKES: Well, first you’re talking abolish the office and then it’s like aah – RAY: No, no – IRVINE: First we were talking abolish the safety coordinator so we’re making progress. RAY: I think that’s good. So we’ll regard that as a friendly amendment to that. Okay, anything else on the Digest? Well, give yourselves a big hand. We just pretty much wrapped this up. Does everybody want to take a five minute break before we get into the budgets and taking this up? YOSHIYAMA: Yes, sounds good. RAY: Okay, we’ll recess for five minutes. RECESSED The Chairman called a recess at 6:16 p.m. RECONVENED The meeting reconvened at 6:30 p.m. RAY: I’d like to re-adjourn. A question has come up in regard to the Charter language regarding the managing director. If you’ll all refer to No. 2, please, Office of Management, Section 6-1.2, Managing Director. I came up with the draft language originally which we were discussing and, in particular, the qualifications of the Chief Administrative Officer, and the way it read out of the Lexington, Kentucky Charter was ‘shall not be employed unless he or she shall possess demonstrable educational and/or professional experience in the art and science of governmental management as required of such office’. So that’s basically what we were looking at originally. And then it was Chris’s understanding that the language that we wanted to eliminate was limited to more ‘the art and science of governmental management’, that, so he put what we have before us in our May 31st summaries. And we voted on May 31st on the language that’s before us this evening. file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 07-12-00.html7/1/2011