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hire the Managing Director. What we have included is that the Managing Director <br />would be confirmed by the County Council, which it's not now, so that's an addition. <br />Then throughout the Charter, in areas where the management role and oversight only <br />refer to the Mayor in different instances, we've included the Managing Director <br />throughout the Charter to basically, from an organizational standpoint, to clearly put the <br />Managing Director more in the chief management role. So, that's what that amendment <br />is all about. <br />Number 4, a Fire Commission. We have a Police Commission now. We don't have a <br />Fire Commission. We basically, pretty much, copied the City and County of Honolulu <br />language and model. They implemented a Fire Commission a few years ago. It seems <br />to be working well. It seems to be working with a minimum of expense, and so we're <br />recommending that a Fire Commission be created and it's main function would be to <br />hire or fire the chief, review the department, and it seems to have had a real positive <br />impact on political shenanigans in the Fire Department, so we're recommending a Fire <br />Commission. <br />Number 5, a Department of Environmental Services, or we may call it Environmental <br />Management. A little bit of background on this. The County Administration came to us <br />last Spring with a proposal to move the Wastewater Division from the Department of <br />Public Works to the Department of Water Supply. So that's what generated a lot of <br />discussion on what might make sense in terms of, kind of, mixing or matching, or <br />whatever, and in researching this, we found that a much more common match -up <br />across the country was a match -up with wastewater and solid waste matched together. <br />So, we're moving in that direction, and we're talking about a possible Commission, and <br />this proposal would basically - In the Public Works Department, there are six divisions <br />right now. This would take two of the divisions, Solid Waste and Wastewater, and <br />create a new department. This Charter Amendment would mandate that that would <br />have to happen, but the County Council and the Administration would be coming up <br />with the ordinances and figuring out exactly how it would be set up. But you'd have <br />these two existing divisions now involved in a new department, whether it's <br />Environmental Services or Environmental Management. Where we came up with that <br />word is that's basically what most people are calling it across the country, and the City <br />and County of Honolulu actually proposed a similar alignment a few years ago. It didn't <br />go through in this case, but that was the title they had used as well. I think what's <br />driving that is we'd like to see more emphasis in terms of these areas, especially in <br />regard to the regulatory regime, which is increasing every year, Federal regulations in <br />regard to these areas. It's becoming increasingly complex to deal with these issues. So <br />that's part of the justification for a separate department. There's a huge area called non <br />point source pollution, which is dealt with now by our Engineering Division, which we <br />think would be logical to include the responsibilities for that in this department. So, <br />that's what this is suggesting, and the proposal would also create an advisory <br />Commission to work with this department and get more public input, hopefully, <br />7 <br />