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• good oversight and I do worry about hazardous materials. Having an accident or a spill on the highway and having proper procedures in place and people who are knowledgeable of the law and knowledgeable how to handle hazardous materials. So it's a health issue and I don't know whether a Fire Commission is going to solve that oversight problem but something has to give somehow. • RAY: Okay. Mr. Bess. BESS: Yes, on your point on the Water Commission. As I understand it, on the Manager of the Water Department, the Council would be the supervising body of that Manager, is that right? So they would actually be engaged in administration. BOCHE: No. I think I'm proposing that the Water Commission be appointed by the County Council. BESS: Okay. BOCHE: And so - BESS: And then you talked about the article in the Charter that said that the Water Manager was under the Mayor and you had a difficulty with that. You'd prefer that he be under the Council or did I hear you? BOCHE: Well, it's the whole Water Department. The Department of Water Supply. BESS: Department of Water Supply. It would be under the supervision of the County Council? BOCHE: Yes and I'm not quite sure how that would work except that the - yes, I'm not sure how that would work. BESS: And I don't want to be imperious because I just want to understand. With regard to the other Commissions that would be appointed under your proposal that they be appointed by the Council Member of that district, that that department also would be under the supervision of the Council? BOCHE: I haven't looked at it. I don't know the best way to administer the Water and Liquor Commission or the Police Commission. I haven't really thought it through on each and every one but I know with the Water Commission there's a problem, with the Planning Commission there's problem, with representation and diversity. I don't know that there is a problem in those areas with the Liquor Commission. I mean I don't know what they do even. 25