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agencies, does building repair and maintenance and does contract administration on buildings only. We have an engineering division with 26 employees . They do code enforcement for subdivision and civil engineering type works for the general public and as support, provide for contract administration and development review for the other agencies of . . .within the County and state. Our highway maintenance division is our largest division with 138 employees . They perform maintenance on the 1 , 000 miles of highway throughout the County of Hawaii and incidental work, perform flood control and also take care of a few sanitaries . And for other agencies they per- form miscellaneous work upon request . I might add that this is a special fund, the highway fund, and so they have their own resources . The traffic division performs streetlighting, signal work, pavement markings and signs and also operates the parking meter operation for the County of Hawaii . They also perform incidental work to other agencies , making signs for them. Th eir. . .they also operate out of a special fund called the highway fund. The . . .our priority division is the next one. It ' s called our solid waste management division and their primary goal is to handle all the refuse on the island which constitutes picking up the refuse at the transfer stations and hauling it to our two regional landfills , one in Hilo, one in Kona. And they have 33 employees . The wastewater management is almost like a mini- department on its own and it administers all of the sewers to include the collections and the operation and maintenance, as well as constructing. . . the contract administration of all the sewer projects throughout the County of Hawaii . They are also a special fund (inaudible) administered under the sewer fund. And the last unit is an administrative unit which is attached to the 14 people in the unit and I would. . .handle the fiscal, general administration contracts and personnel matters of the entire department . And pretty much, that ' s a brief explanation of what our department does . BETHEA: Would there be questions from the members of the commission? Let me start . I noticed in your letter that you were requesting the commission to consider the following. • And the first was an amendment to §6-2 . 2 . which in its present form simply says the chief engineer shall be appointed by the mayor, confirmed by the Council and may be moved. . .removed by the mayor . He should be. . .he shall be a registered professional engineer . You' re suggesting an amendment to include the deputy chief engineer and deputies as authorized. . I 'm not 128