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HERKES: Change the title? <br />• YUEN: As well as putting a new little section in there about Purpose. <br />HERKES: Well, there's a Powers of the County under Powers of the County and <br />Exercise of Powers, and that probably could be a place to put it too. <br />RAY: So, my question is are you still enthusiastic about pursuing this in either <br />Article I or Article II? <br />HERKES: I could be persuaded to move it to Article I or Article II. I think it's important <br />to have something that does define a purpose for the Charter, and Maui's Charter does have <br />'secure the benefits of the best possible form of County government to exercise the powers and <br />assume the responsibilities to the fullest extent possible that they adopt the Charter'. But that's <br />not so much ethics as it is — <br />RAY: Okay. Sue. <br />IRVINE: Well, like I said, I was basically editing what Marni had written. Whether <br />we want to have one more amendment go to the public or whether we're worried about volume <br />of what we're sending out, that's my only hesitation. I wish we could write a beautiful Charter <br />without having to have each word approved. <br />RAY: Steve. <br />BESS: I really appreciate the language here but I have a couple of comments. <br />One is that to the extent that we want to express a Purpose, this is like a case of first <br />impression to me. I haven't had any time to even massage the thing and so I feel very <br />uncomfortable in voting on something like this today when we're putting forth the Purpose of the <br />Charter. The second thing is that I think that inherent in the document itself is the idea that this <br />is going to provide a framework for us to operate our government. Now, if it's important to you <br />folks to put forth an ethical standard in the Purpose, if that's really where you're at, because the <br />framework, as I say, it's inherent. And again, it's another amendment. <br />IRVINE: So, maybe we should go to Ethics instead of worrying about this. <br />HERKES: Yes. <br />RAY: So, my sense is that we're not going to pursue a change in the Charter <br />Preamble. Is that correct? <br />IRVINE: I guess. <br />RAY: Okay, moving to item B. Could somebody call Mr. Santangelo back in? <br />•RAY: Item B, Change the name of the Department of Public Works from the <br />Chief Engineer to the Director of Public Works. <br />23 <br />