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supervision and control of the mayor . There is nothing in <br /> . . . I just put 'this out on observation. . . there is nothing <br /> in the Fire Department section or it says the powers , <br /> duties and functions of the Fire Department shall be pre- <br /> scribed by ordinance and shall be exercised and performed <br /> by the department. So it ' s apparently the County Council <br /> who' s calling the shot there as to the powers, duties and <br /> functions of the Fire Department. And no. . . <br /> GREENWELL: The ordinance sets it up and the mayor <br /> administers it. <br /> CUSHNIE: But, Mr . Chairman, if I might add, my point <br /> being that on the last page of Chief Bello' s handout, <br /> there ' s absolutely no line connecting the County Council <br /> with the mayor or his department, just to show how widely <br /> misunderstood these powers oflresponsibility are throughout <br /> our County. And to me it ,,seem's - there should be a direct <br /> line to the Council. . .County ,Council for a _variety of reasons, <br /> including one. . . <br /> GREENWELL: Yeah, I understand. This is the simplest <br /> way and you have direct authority . You start_ getting the Council <br /> involved, and you have a whole pile of (inaudible). <br /> CUSHNIE: But it ' s written in the Charter , and yet it ' s <br /> not in practice. <br /> GREENWELL: I don' t think the Charter says that. <br /> CUSHNIE: Doesn' t the Charter say the Police Depart- <br /> ment do. . . the. Fire Department duties are by ordinance? <br /> GREENWELL: No, confirmed by the. Council. Those. . . <br /> where are we? (Inaudible) powers , duties and functions of <br /> the Fire Department shall be prescribed by ordinance and <br /> shall be exercised and performed by the department. The <br /> ordinance is a just a law setting up the Fire Department . <br /> And the Fire department is set up. . . follows that under the <br /> authority of the mayor . The County . . . the Council itself <br /> doesn ' t have any managerial relationship with the Fire <br /> Department at all. It only sets up the ordinance. <br /> CUSHNIE: You don' t feel that by changing the <br /> ordinance, the County Council has tremendous control over <br /> the duties of the Fire Department? <br /> GREENWELL: The chairman now? Is it this now? <br /> OMONAKA: That would be the truth to a degree because <br /> in terms of your manning, who decides that by ordinance who <br /> shall have each battalion chief.. .only a battalion chief. . .how is that <br /> set up? <br /> 187 <br />