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HIGASHI: I would favor a separate department. But, within the description, I <br />would favor the franchising, or privatizing a lot of the issues, if it's possible within the <br />Charter. <br />IRVINE: These things are private right now, and what they say in here is <br />that they're in charge of the administration of the refuse franchise and recycling <br />activities, so that the government would be in charge of hiring somebody to do it, and <br />saying - <br />HIGASHI: I probably would favor language that would spell it out, or <br />whichever is most financially responsible. <br />HERKES: Managed competition? <br />IRVINE: Maybe we need to talk some more with Recycle Hawaii. They must <br />have at least a handle on what percentage of people do their own garbage. <br />HIGASHI: But the bigger issue is, like, talking to Waste Management. Are <br />they making money? Can private people handle this? <br />IRVINE: Waste Management presently, if you've read about their stock and <br />whatnot, there's major - <br />• HIGASHI: I don't want to get into their stock, but if there are other companies <br />and whether private people are financially able to handle that. <br />IRVINE: How would we go about that, Roland? How do you think we should <br />HERKES: Look up in your phone book under Waste Disposal Firms. Call <br />them up. Talk to Rick Walton. Talk to them. <br />IRVINE: Do we have some here? <br />HERKES: Yes, we have some and they do condominiums a lot. That's a big <br />part of their business is picking up refuse from condominiums. <br />SANTANGELO: One thing I'd like to interject. When I was looking at this and went <br />to the LA Sanitation District, where they had that. One of the things we were warned, <br />and they're marvelous people, and frankly, we could get one here if we so desired, and <br />they're running one of the biggest in the nation, And they had a separation. When it <br />came to the picking up, and all that kind of stuff, that you left private, but you never let <br />that come into the actual dealing with it, because the dealing with it had such <br />technology involved, and you know I'm one that's home rule, but sometimes <br />• government does things a little bit better in having that expertise within your <br />department, and not being held hostage by it at some point. So, there was, in their <br />7 <br />