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Number 9, the Safety Coordinator. There again, this is just reflecting how those duties and responsibilities are handled within the County now. All of the departments • really take responsibility for those functions now, so the way it appears in the Charter now does not reflect how that position works. So, we're suggesting moving the Safety Coordinator position to the Civil Service Department, so more closely reflecting how the - So, we're not doing away with anything. We're just trying to reflect the way it works. Number 10. This also has to do with the Planning Commission. These are fairly technical in nature, and maybe I'll ask Chris because he's a real authority in this area, to explain what these two proposed amendments would be about. One is to add language to clarify the role of the Planning Commission in the Special Management Area and the other, having the authority to adopt rules and regulations. YUEN: The Planning Commission presently does act as the authority in the Special Management Area. This means that they issue what are called Special Management Area Permits. These implement what are called the Coastal Zone Management Act. Special Management Area is along the coastline, although in some places, it goes in for a ways as well. In a way, this amendment is not strictly necessary because it already has this function, but the Planning Commission asked for this to be put in the Charter so that it would clarify that they do have this power. It's actually set in State Law that the Planning Commission has this power unless the Charter says that the Planning Commission is completely advisory. And since our Planning Commission has some other powers, it's not completely advisory. All the counties work this way • except for the City and County of Honolulu. Their Planning Commission is completely advisory, and so their Special Management Area Permits are issued by the County Council. 1 The second, to have rules and regulations, would reverse a change made in the '98 election for reasons that are not entirely clear to me. It says that they would have the power to adopt rules and regulations having the force and effect of law under the Subdivision and Zoning Ordinances. The portion about the Subdivision Ordinance, we'll probably take out. That's not really necessary because they don't currently have rules under the Subdivision Ordinance. Under the Zoning Ordinance, they currently do have rules and regulations having the force and effect of law. These cover things like what has to be in an application, how the application is processed, other more technical matters like that. And it raises this question now of their authority to have those kinds of rules. OTTERSON: I think you remember me talking about this junkyard business. was the one that set that up for them, and I was, of course, talking to Bill Davis and he said 'we don't have any teeth in it', and I told him, I said, `well, can I tell you what we did. I was a Zoning Inspector and Building Inspector.' And he said 'sure' so I told him exactly how we did it and he said `no, we can't do that.' About two days later he called 9