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CUSHNIE: Well , I was thinking if we just deleted <br /> that section, it would then become optional . Because the <br /> Charter certainly doesn' t match in zoos , parks , <br /> equestrian centers , etcetera. That is an optional <br /> benefit that you provide. <br /> TANIMOTO: Yeah. What I think I hear you saying is <br /> if you made it an option, then at some purpose. . . some <br /> point in time, if someone wanted to streamline or. . . for <br /> prudency or for cost-effectiveness , decided not to do <br /> that, then they have the option to do that. I would <br /> agree to something like that . <br /> BETHEA: Yeah, I 'm not sure that the. . .the bands are <br /> a little funny thing because it ' s simply assigned to your <br /> department by the Charter. You may have elderly <br /> activities that are assigned to your department, but not <br /> by the Charter. Just in some other manner. Is that <br /> correct? I mean, you do the elderly activities type of <br /> thing; you get federal money for it. And. . . is that <br /> correct? <br /> TANIMOTO: Yes, part of it. <br /> BETHEA: Those programs are simply. . .have been <br /> assigned to you by ordinance or some other fashion. <br /> TNIMOTO: Yes. <br /> BETHEA: Well , if there are going to be County <br /> bands, if there are going to be such creatures, shouldn' t <br /> that be part of your department? Parks and Recreation? <br /> TANIMOTO: If there are going to be, yes , they could <br /> be in my department , yes . There is a. . . one small differ- <br /> ence, and I don' t understand the rationality behind it. <br /> Although the other people who are in my division so to <br /> speak are civil service employees--and I 'm not pushing <br /> for this now--however , the bandmaster is appointed by the <br /> mayor. And again, I don' t want you to misinterpret that <br /> I 'm saying the bandmaster should be a civil service <br /> employee in my department . However , he is appointed by <br /> the mayor and stuck into my department. <br /> GREENWELL: Mr. Chairman. The bands go back for <br /> years even prior to the time there was a recreation <br /> department. And when the recreation department was <br /> eventually created, I think it just seemed like a logical <br /> place to put it , for no other reason. And I guess it was <br /> just something some. . .another duty for the first <br /> recreation department director to have. And it ' s always <br /> been only the separate department in itself. <br /> 277 <br />