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input maybe six months from now, in ways in which Chief Bello feels that the mayor could or has already tried to dictate administrative positions . Since he' s new on the job, he may not fully appreciate. . . . GREENWELL: I think it ' s varied through the years depending on who was the mayor . BELLO: Well, my past experience what I ' ve observed on the past administrative. . .administration, I ' ve seen this happen. CUSHNIE: Uh-huh. And I wondering if you 'd like to remove yourself and answer only to a fire commission similar to the Police Commission? So we don' t need an answer now, but perhaps later you might have some comment to make. DUNCAN: May I just make one comment? I guess that is an interesting point, but I 'm thinking of the fire we have, you know, behind Mauna Lani and Puako. It ' d be under the mayor , there would be tremendous coordination after the fire that needed the most County agencies , and it was actually a very good thing to see and how the administration responded in coordinating the entire staff along with the fire chief and Civil Defense and everyone. And Patti Jenkins was (inaudible) Information Officer and depended. . .all the things were coming in, so there is . . . I think there is a, you know, an advantage of getting a directive from the mayor who said what the policy will be and everyone in administration, all department heads , kind of fall into step in making sure that a crises is not just taken from the time a fire starts and the fire ' s out and the time when people are (inaudible) control, etcetera, etcetera. And I don ' t know, you know, if it falls under a commission (inaudible) because, you know, in the past (inaudible) there was less concern, I had was how does . . . do you get a department under a commission to follow in close step with what may become a mayoral directive to set the policies . You know, whether it ' s affordable housing, or whether it ' s , you know (inaudible) or whatever . BETHEA: Just as a comment. Maybe that was one of the advantages for a strong-mayor system is that would be department heads being responsible to the strong mayor , even coordinate these public activities . Oh, I don' t know how the police responded to that. I think the provision in the Charter says that the Police Department is subject to the general supervision, I believe is what it says , the general supervision and control of the mayor . Now that ' s . . .yeah, the Police Department shall come under the general 186