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• <br />RAY: Do I have a second? <br />HERKES: I suggested that. I'd like to make a motion that we change the name from <br />the Chief Engineer to the Director of the Department of Public Works. <br />• <br />IRVINE: Second. <br />RAY: Okay, discussion? <br />IRVINE: Where are we putting this? <br />BESS: I'd like to understand why we're doing this. My point is that we have <br />already decided to keep the Chief Engineer. I mean that he has to be a registered engineer to <br />be in charge of the department. And again, it's just another one of these amendments that may, <br />or may not, be necessary. <br />RAY: Marni. <br />HERKES: Yes, we decided to also keep the engineer's qualifications for the Board of <br />Water Supply, but that's a Director of the Board of Water Supply. And if we're going to have a <br />Director of the Department and have administrative talents be part of their job description, their <br />qualifications, I think Director fits that, qualifications, fits that idea better than the Chief <br />Engineer. <br />IRVINE: If we do this, we already have an amendment concerning the Chief <br />Engineer that will have a five years experience in administrative capacity, so it wouldn't really <br />be adding another item to our list of things going to the public. Is that true? <br />RAY: Is that correct, Chris? Can we fold that in? <br />YUEN: As a legal matter, it could be included in number 7 if the Commission <br />wished, or it could be broken out on its own. We would just have to redo our explaining. It <br />would have to say something besides just qualification of Department Heads. <br />HERKES: Is there any legal problem with changing his title to a Director rather than <br />Chief Engineer? <br />YUEN: No. <br />RAY: John. <br />SANTANGELO: One of the reasons I like the idea, I think it's clear to the public that it's a <br />Director and secondly, as a Chief Engineer, that engineer has no authority over, say, the Water <br />Department's engineers so it's not like they're an engineer overseeing other engineers <br />completely. So, having the requirement there and having it as a Department Head makes total <br />sense to me and I support it. <br />24 <br />