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• to be out of Planning Department and quite frankly, it has nothing to do with planning <br />because once the Council has made the ordinance with regard to subdivisions, <br />everything flows down. It's a strictly mechanical function and the talent, quite frankly, to <br />follow through on this is better served in the Building Department and in Engineering <br />under Public Works. Now it's either Public Works -Engineering or it's Building. I'm not <br />quite sure where it would fit exactly but it would definitely be Public Works. Any <br />questions on that? I'II go to my next one. <br />HIGASHI: Do you know exactly what Section in the Charter? <br />OLESEN: Yes, I think it was on the last amendment that was made to the Charter <br />and is the recent one, it's an (undiscernible) sheet. <br />IRVINE: Was this like in 1998? <br />OLESEN: Yes. <br />IRVINE: That's Section 5-4 - <br />OLESEN: It was an (undiscernible) sheet that went into the Charter that specifically <br />designated that these functions would be in the Planning Department. <br />IRVINE: It says that under 5-4.2, that the Planning Director will administer the <br />subdivision and zoning ordinances and regulations adopted thereunder. <br />OLESEN: Correct. <br />IRVINE: Under (e) in an insert in 1998 - <br />OLESEN: Right, it's an insert, right. <br />IRVINE: Yes. <br />OLESEN: Okay, the second one is, again this is a question of function, how it <br />actually fits. Again, it's addressing the Planning Department. The Planning <br />Department is in charge of, on paper now, it's in charge of establishing the priorities of <br />CIP funding. In reality, this does not take place. In reality, it is effectively a function of <br />the Finance Department and a function of priorities established directly out of the <br />Mayor's Office and/or directly out of the Council. But to have it in the Planning <br />Department, effectively it's a deceptive place to put it because you're thinking that <br />Planning now is establishing what the priorities of a CIP spending is and that is not <br />correct. They do not establish this. It's actually done in a different area. So I would <br />recommend that probably the best place it would fit would be, my guess would be, <br />