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MIZUNO: Uh-huh. Sure. . . L'ORANGE: So that ' s what I 'm talking about . When you say computers , I get worried. BETHEA: Yeah. Okay. Alright. I didn' t mean to be broad. That type of data processing information system so that you don' t get a lot of systems that don' t mesh one with the other. MIZUNO: I guess the bottom line is we need to control the direction that we ' re headed as far as the County' s concerned, then computerizing the different departments . We need control . And I think what we've established now works. I think that the data processing committee which was created by this administration to ( inaudible) I think is doing a very good job at controlling and setting direction. But my problem is that in a lot of cases , the damage has already been done. And to correct it will be almost impossible at this stage for it would be very expensive to do. What I wanna do. . .my statement really pertains to controling the future, I mean, and less on correcting some of these problems in the past . I think it would just be too expensive to correct all our problems . POPPE: Well , may I suggest that we can also impose on you to get us at least a conceptual thing, perhaps based on what you ' re doing now for consideration? MIZUNO: I ' ll put it in writing. JUVIK: Excuse me, just to follow up. Do you think maybe that . . . this is really an area the Charter has to get into? I mean, for example, I know in the area of computers , technology is changing so rapidly, and we only review the Charter every ten years. Maybe. . . I think these suggestions are obviously are good ones . I 'm just wondering whether maybe the Charter ' s getting too detailed for a direct . . .you know, internal committees within the administration or so on that may be necessary to solve some computer problems may develop one year and disappear later . You know, I 'm just pointing that out as sort of the devil ' s advocate. Maybe we don' t really need to get that detailed in the Charter. Whether a body, Council , or administrative activity they want to develop some response to computerization and so forth. Obviously, if you can save the taxpayer money, this is good and efficient . But I 'm not sure. . . I 'm just not sure that necessarily has to be spelled out in a great deal in the Charter . POPPE: I must admit prior to my comments , I was thinking the same thing. Do we really want to get into this? Is it possible that you even broaden it , and maybe 276