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us look at them, we ' re obviously very anxious to get the benefit of your experiences . Because I read this thing and I can see conflict that simply should be cleared up. One thing I think we ought not to end up with, if we can help it , is a situation where the County Clerk, for example , has to make interpretations that the Charter should make. You know, that ' d be as clear as possible on major issues. So I' d very much appreciate it if you would , just as things occur to you, if you could send them in to us. I think it would be very valuable. And certainly we appreciate your being here. I' d like to be able to call on you again as we get through this. C. Break BETHEA : Is there any other questions that should be directed to Mr. Ibarra? If not , I suggest that we take just a short break, then we come back and there ' s administrative matters that I need to we need to go through and then we can get out of here as quickly as possible. I also want to discuss the possibility for a subject matter for next week. But let ' s take a brief recess right now. D. Administrative Matters : Office set-up and secretary BETHEA : (Reconvened ; general comments) . Some of the ministerial business of the community . At the last meeting , as you will recall from the minutes, you asked me to find an executive secretary for the commission. As Okira noted at that meeting, it was a full-time job. I think I ' ve done that , and I ' ve also arranged for some office space. I think most of you saw the space which we got through the cooperation of Jan Bibb, and we appreciate that very much. I think it ' s going to be helpful to have the private space. And, in terms of the office , we ' ll be able , as we understand it right now, we ' re still trying to get all this together, to have a separate phone number, separate address , etcetera, etcetera. And I'll get in a little bit more to that. With the cooperation of Susan Labrenz, we ' ve arranged for our secretary to fill an exempt position in the Mayor' s Office. And this works out very nicely in that it covers all of the bases for employee. . .the details for employment , workers ' comp and all of that type thing. At the same time , it gives us an opportunity to employ a person only for the life of the commission. That ' s the only. . . that ' s the job limitation. And subject to funding and work load, I met initially on this subject matter with Mike Benn and Merle Egusa at the Civil Service Commission [office] and later with David Luke who runs the commission [office ]. Again, their office was extremely, cooperative. In order to do this , they got a Corp. Counsel opinion that it could be done with an exempt position in the Mayor ' s Office. We didn ' t need Council approval, which I. think was absolutely correct. And they ' ve met with me to discuss what the appropriate salary schedule would be; and they were very helpful. They rushed through a job description and are in the 55