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Fire Chief than the language in the Honolulu Charter. Instead of saying a statement of • charges, it says a 'statement of reasons' and then it says 'the fire chief must be allowed to respond' actually before they vote to remove the chief, and the difference in the Honolulu Charter, it says that opportunity for a hearing before they remove, and I think that creates a bigger procedure, amore difficult procedure. And I thought the sense of the Commission was to try to streamline it a little bit at the last meeting, but the Commission has not actually voted on this particular language that I have in here on removing the chief. The second thing that I added, and I changed a little bit from Gary's draft, was the transition, on what happens between now and then. And it's to make it clear, first of all, and I think this was just something that was understood in the previous draft, was that this takes effect when there's a changeover in the composition of the County government in December. So, in other words, the Mayor that comes in appoints the new Fire Commission in December. I think that was understood that it wouldn't be the Mayor in the last month of the term appointing the Fire Commission. The chief who is in office immediately before the turnover, would remain as the chief until the Fire Commission appointed a new chief. HIGASHI: And confirmed by the Council or appointment by the Fire Commission, does he become interim or acting chief? YUEN: Under the procedure on Gary's draft, and in the. Honolulu Charter, there is no confirmation of the Fire Chief by the Council. The Fire Chief is simply appointed by the Fire Commission, so that's it. Once the Fire Commission appoints the chief - Are you talking about the interim Fire Chief? HIGASHI: Without looking at this in detail, is there a confirmation of the Fire Chief? YUEN: Today there is, yes. HIGASHI: Under the proposal? YUEN: No, there would not be. Nor did I include confirmation of the interim Fire Chief because it should be a fairly short time that you have an interim Fire Chief. For example, if the new Mayor, the old Fire Chief is serving as interim, then, say, one week later decides to resign, the new Mayor gets to appoint an interim Fire Chief. But that's only going to be until the new Fire Commission appoints the first Fire Chief. Under the current Charter, the Mayor appoints the Fire Chief and there's Council confirmation, and under the Honolulu - am I wrong on the Council confirmation? I'm pretty sure that they have a Council - Yes, there's Council, but under the Honolulu Charter and the proposal that you voted on, you can change it, but the way it worked there is no Council confirmation. It's just done by the Commission. 24