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The budget for the next fiscal year will be submitted to the Finance Director sometime in April, 1989 . 2. Mr . Bethea explained that we are purchasing some equip- ment because the County has none available for the full duration of the commission. Some items will be rented or borrowed. Whatever is purchased will be able to be used by the County after the commission terminates . V. FINANCIAL-EXPENSE REPORT Commission expenditures to date have been $1 , 080 .48 . This includes $286 .93 for advertisements , $141 . 99 for office supplies and printing, $258 .44 for mileage and $393 .12 for equipment . VI . DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS PRESENTATION By Hugh Ono and Bruce McClure (Verbatim) ONO: Mr. Chairman and members of the Charter Commission. I gather what you wanted was for me to quickly do an overview of our departmental functions for your basic understanding as far as what Public Works does . Am I correct? BETHEA: That ' s correct . ONO : Okay. Let me start this way. The department consists of seven divisions , and. . .totaling 336 employees. We're broken down this way and now we ' re pretty much in alphabeti- cal order . We have an automotive division. And the auto- motive division has two basic functions , one in terms of a line support . That means services to the public. And the other one I call support activities , which would be activities that support other agencies of the County or other agencies of the government . So the automotive division has 20 employees . They per- form the abandoned-car removal program and they also provide for the care and maintenance program on some 600 to 700 vehicle and equipment units within the County of Hawaii, with the exception of Police and Fire that performs their own. We have a building division that on the public side provides for (inaudible) . BETHEA: Mr . Ono , would you. . .when we have questions , would you rather take them as w e go, or would you rather make your presentation, and then we can come back and. ask you questions? ONO : If I go right through this , it ' d probably take about 5 minutes . BETHEA: Alright . Very good. ONO: That might be easiest I guess . So the build- ing division has 46 employees perform code enforcement for the general public and as a support to the other County 127