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• • Kuwahara: Dccs the City of Lo; Angeles have the authority to Get-up taxes? Markey: Yes . And they determine how their capital improvements are going to be financed--whether by taxes , bonds, etc ICawahara: This interpretation of city manac cr--I thought that the ides. of city manager was brought about because pol.iti- • • c ans Frere thou ht to be somewhat "crooiceci" etc o : and the oily way you would get them out was through safety valve feature that we have---seine systems have recall. • City manager idea is the idea of a professional man—somebody who is an expert in government. I was wondering if we should place so much faith in this one man because looking at some of the people who call . themselves experts in government, they have a lot of academic training but are not much of a "politician." • Markey: The only answer would be who would. be the better expert administrator—the council who had actually no training and • experience or administrator who has had .both training and experience. • Noda; Most of the managers who are hired by municipalities are people from outside the community, generally. Markey: True, because most co,nelunitlas cannot provide than 0 Noda: If you bring in a person from outside, it seams to me that a person cannot feel the temper of the community and for a period of time he would be in a disadvantageous position Markey: This grasp of the community is somewhat overrated It is necessary to know the currmunity with whom you' re working, but the City i annger' s vi ob is not a policy-making job and it is the council' s job to know the temper of the community, to determine what it is that the community wants . • • Koehnen: I take it that you've had some experience with city managers . What has your experience been as to the availability of people, particularly considering our rather isolated position? • Markey: .. I might say that good city managers are hard to find anywhere. They are particularly hard to find as isolated as we are from the mainland. One of the things that create. a supply of city managers is professional schools of adminis- tration dmxn?sintrat7on where they start in as interns and then they work up to assistant city manager and then they go into another community and get a city manager' s position. However, we have found in r_•eczuing for the University that if the salary is right and the working conditions are right, Hawaii can find anybody it wants . So it would not be impossible to find a good city manager. How to tell a good city manager? The way this is done on the mainland is to ask for the assistance of professional associations to help communities to select a good city manager. Managers have their professional associa- tions and professional reputation, which follows them from one job to the other. Nagasako: I have a notion that the• political climate here in Hawaii County and the state and the situations on the mainland where you have successful city manager form, must be greatly different. I cannot see clearly how there won' t be politics involved in the selection of: • a city manager. If the council, for example, is of one party y and if we have a change, ,.n terms of the selection of the department heads by the city 0050