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BESS: I understand your comments with regard to trying to bring about more <br />diversity on the Commission but I'm talking about now your comments with regard to <br />supervision. <br />BOCHE: Okay. <br />BESS: And that's what's confusing me. <br />BOCHE: I'm not sure how it would work. <br />BESS: See, I think one of the things, and not to unfairly extrapolate on what you <br />said previously about how we should provide for maximum discussion or what have you <br />but I think when you look at this Charter, it comes from a very traditional viewpoint that <br />(a) we have an Executive Branch that is primarily responsible for administration and we <br />have this Council Branch that's supposed to be policy formulation and that there's <br />some how or other, a separation of the two and that by building in the administration <br />into one of those branches, that you have greater accountability. And what I'm hearing <br />you say is that, and it may relate to your feelings about better balance of power, that <br />the Council should have administrative functions as well as policy making functions. <br />BOCHE: Yes, I'm not sure. I'II have to think about it and I think that's one of the <br />things that maybe I'll take away from this meeting are your ideas for further <br />consideration of my own. I can go back and read this and think about it because, as I <br />say, I've got a couple of different ideas here about how the Boards and Commissions <br />should be appointed and I'm not really set in stone. I'm just exploring, really trying to <br />explore various ways to create a better County government. <br />BESS: Thank you. <br />BOCHE: That's all. <br />RAY: Just try to think practically how that would work from an administrative <br />standpoint, if you put the legislative body in that loop to make administrative decisions <br />on how these departments function and I think that's the point that Steve was bringing <br />up. How that would work. <br />Okay, any more questions. <br />MARTIN: Yes, I have a comment. Maybe I shouldn't be saying this but you made <br />mention of a group of people per se, being higher up in the rankings of a department. If <br />any one group participates or applies itself more than another and they do in fact, <br />proceed up the ladder, if you will, it's to their good luck I think and I just would be wary <br />of comment something like that. Yes? <br />26 <br />