MIN CHC 1999-09-29 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home

they voted that way, or took that position. I'm not too sure. I wasn't at that discussion, and maybe the nature of the things that they do, require these policies to be in place. Again, the implementation of the subdivision code, as the Planning Director has mentioned, is pretty much done, or taken care of, by our department, and it is appropriate that that type of function be transferred, so I guess, if we need to establish new policy or admin rules to govern that, we would undertake that, but I can't explain why there's not any anyplace now. HERKES: Or what their problem is. Okay. IRVINE: I'm not sure that setting up performance measurements, or something like that, is really setting up more rules because if you look at performance measurements, it's like one of those outcomes should be that the public is happy with what you're doing, and for example, Solid waste, are people happy that they can only put a four foot board at a land waste unit? It's not just making more rules. It's trying to deal with things in an efficient manner that the public is served by the County agencies. SUMADA: I can tell you that, at least in the Building Division, they've had that for quite some time, as far as measurable goals. They do track the number of permits that are processed annually. They do track how long it takes to process a 411 permit and since the Mayor came on board, that was one of his rallying cries, and he has brought processing time down considerably. So, we do have measurable goals. It may be that we're just not advertising it well enough, per se. RAY: Other questions? Do we need Virginia and Jiro to stay here or is everybody comfortable that we're okay in terms of their input? IRVINE: Is our Counsel going to come up with the possible wording and tell us which parts of the Charter need to be changed if we were to do this, or is Planning? What's next? RAY: We have specific suggestions from the Planning Department. We hact that submitted at the last meeting, so I guess our Counsel will have to look at that, and I guess, work with the Planning Department and Public Works to come up with some proposed language. GOLDSTEIN: Actually, just one other thought, and that is, I think most of the changes might have to come from the section on the Planning Department because the Charter already allows the other things, and other functions with Public Works get established through ordinance, which is not your kuleana, so I don't know, it might just have to be in the Planning Department sections. YUEN: I just have one question for the Planning Director, if I could. 31