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transcript, and the selection of the attorney can follow, and I'd like to call them and just say, hey, don't worry about it. RAY: Okay. Well, let's take a brief recess, yeah. RECESSED The Chairman called a short recess at 3:30 p.m. RECONVENED The meeting reconvened at 3:35 p.m. RAY: Okay, let's call the meeting back to order. On the agenda, we're at Item VII, New Business. We're going to start our departmental reviews, and first we're going to hear from the Director of the Parks and Rec Department, Ms. Julie Tulang, who submitted written comments to us earlier. So, Ms. Tulang, could you come up to the table. Thank you very much for coming today. TULANG: Thank you. Thank you for this opportunity to address you. Thank you for this opportunity to address all of you. First off, I need to clarify that the comments made are primarily from my department; it does not necessarily meet with the endorsement of the Mayor. We may not -. RAY: TULANG: Okay. Agree on all of this, so I need to say that up front. Okay. What I need to tell you is how we came about with our recommendations that was sent to the Chair, and that we sent -, or I sent the Charter out to all our division heads to give them an opportunity to voice their opinion. And so, collectively, this is from our department and our division heads and not just from me, alone. Some of the areas we call attention to are just minor changes. Others, one other may be a major overhaul, and you may not want to address that. But one of the areas that causes us some concern is the area of the Safety Coordinator, primarily because of work comp cases. And so we would like to recommend that perhaps the Safety Coordinator be a Civil Service position so there is continuity and follow-through on work comp cases rather than creating a new learning curve every time a new coordinator is appointed. And that's Article V, Chapter 6, Section 5-6.2. The other area that probably needs to be cleaned up a little or clarified and may be a bit controversial is the County bands. Right now it reads in Chapter 6, Article VI, Chapter 3, Section 6-3.4, County bands. There should be one County band and, perhaps, that should move under the Office of the Mayor. Right now, it's under the office of -, Department of Parks and Recreation. And the bandmaster can continue to be appointed, an appointed position. However, our recommendation is that if the monies are tight, it might be an area that we could enlist the help of high school bands instead of the County band. However, that's very controversial because 11