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• operating costs of government. A lot of these recommendations I'm making are <br />primarily a shuffling of people internally. It has nothing to do with adding anybody. It's <br />just trying to get the right skills in the right place. That was that one. <br />HIGASHI: Would a section in Department of Public Works work because <br />ultimately? - <br />OLESEN: It could be a Division of Public Works. Public Works now, I believe, has <br />seven or nine separate divisions operating underneath the Chief Engineer. It would be <br />a logical place to have another division established that just does that. They, in turn, <br />would take the proper input, but they would take the project from start to finish. It <br />wouldn't be piecemeal from department to department, back and forth. <br />IRVINE: Could I ask a question here? <br />HIGASHI: Yes. <br />IRVINE: You know I appreciate what you had to say about the first two things you <br />said but both of those were revised in 1998 in the Charter and I don't understand why <br />they weren't straightened out then. I mean the Planning Department themselves <br />came up with amendments for us to vote on in '98 and both of your first two items were <br />left where they are or reworded a bit and put back in the Charter. Does that mean that <br />these are just your own wild ideas and that the? - <br />OLESEN: No, I think you'll find that the Mayor agrees with all I'm saying. <br />IRVINE: Oh, okay. <br />OLESEN: 100%. <br />IRVINE: All right. <br />OLESEN: It doesn't belong there. <br />IRVINE: No, I - <br />OLESEN: And I almost got fired because I couldn't get it out of there. <br />IRVINE: All right. I guess I'm just having trouble figuring why they didn't do it at <br />that time. <br />OLESEN: To clarify a little bit. To do the administerial function, it takes a technical <br />talent completely different than the kind of talent that they have in the Planning <br />• <br />