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• • e• • Fujimoto: You favor city manager type of county government. With that whai. would be. your idea of the term of office for councilmen? • • Osorio: Councilmen for four years ,' staggered terms , higher salary. . When most of the responsibilities fall on the Board as it does now, they should be compensated. ' • Koehnon: One possibility under the county manager system will be to put department heads under Civil Service. What are your thoughts , on this? Osorio: I've never given this any thought. • • Keehnen: Perhaps you get the best individuals this way, Vhe available local talent. Locally, we think of Civil Service as being entremely protected and being almost impossible to remove a department head and this is not actually true. Osorio: If he is under our present Civil Service law it is difficult to remove . I still feel department heads should be appointed and should go with appointedauthority. • • Sugawara: In your first statement you said the members in the • : council should run on a non-political basis . In the following • Primary election, the voters must take one party. The main philosophy was to generate more participation by the public• . In your statement, doesn' t it conflict with the philosophy? Osorio: If the intent of the law was to generate partisan support and no active party politics In primaries , then lem wrong but I don' t believe that it will generate that much party action by next primary. I think you' re going to find that the percentage of voters in next year' s primary is going to drop considerably. • Loweth: You mentioned four-year terms to be staggered terms i• every two years . . .so you have a continuity in council? Osorio: Yes . This would be a chaotic government if all seven of us were removed at one time. It takes time to learn the goverrpent. • • • Baldwin: We hare quite a conglomeration of boards , commissions , powers . Osorio: I think if you're not going to give commissions some real power there is no sense in having them at all. • Baldwin: This would enforce the idea that commission members should be with advise and consent. • 'Osorio: Yes . • Kawahara: Where you have commissions with very long . torms9An terms of your Board (every two years) maybe that' s where your • difficulty lies . Either reduce the terms of members of the commissions or increase the terms of the Board so they would coincide. • Osorio: Every commission has different term of office. ITRA has appointments which run - 5 , 4, 3 , 2, 1 yr . ; Civil Service two years and then you cannot serve. It seems: to me there could • be a general tenure of office for all commission members . Kochnen: I have two observations to make: 1) Non-partisanship might resolve some of the problems ; 2) In going through the list .