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• Assistant or Deputies and incorporate this other part in there, "and may also hire <br />"special counsel" when a real necessity for such employment is found"? <br />BESS: <br />provision. <br />"Real necessity or" and then we can put in the conflict of interest <br />IRVINE: That's a necessity. <br />BESS: Well, it's a necessity but it's a special kind of necessity. I think <br />Corp Counsel, where there's conflict of interest, it should clearly have the authority to - <br />the Council lacks the competence to determine whether or not there's a conflict of <br />interest. I mean they may not have received the training that the Corp Counsel has <br />with regard to the conflict of interest - <br />WURDEMAN: Both the Police Commission and certain Council members, and I <br />think it is really more true of the Police Commission - you get into whether the guy did <br />or didn't do it which is not the issue. <br />BESS: Right. <br />HERKES: Mr. Ray, could we ask you to work with Mr. Bess and Mr. <br />• Wurdeman and come up with, and Mr. Yuen, some appropriate language and bring it <br />back to the Commission? <br />• <br />RAY: Sure. <br />HERKES: Can I bring up my other point? <br />RAY: Sure. It's on CHAPTER 2, right? <br />HERKES: It's on CHAPTER 2, 5-2.2. It says "may be removed by the Mayor <br />with the approval of the Council" and the Finance Director can be removed by the <br />Mayor period. Why do you get the approval of the Council when you get fired? Why is <br />that in there? Why is it different? <br />BESS: Confirmation. <br />WURDEMAN: I think it's lifted from State law and related to the Attorney General - <br />HERKES: Okay. <br />WURDEMAN: Which is the same kind of safeguard and it is because in cases <br />where there is a conflict between the Council and the Mayor, and the Council is <br />10 <br />