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Charter Commission e • <br /> April 10, 1979 <br /> Page 3 <br /> some of you are aware, it has not happened ' the way itwas intended. <br /> Instead, you either have the legislature appropriating funds or the <br /> County Council authorizing the sale of bonds. The Department of <br /> Water Supply has been operating no differently as any other <br /> department within the County. Why then, the semi-autonomous <br /> li <br /> status? Even though the present administration favors the return <br /> 3°u <br /> of the Water Departmentmaybe wonderingabout the feelings of the <br /> employees for the move as proposed. The workers themselves are <br /> strongly in favor of bringing the department under the Mayor' s . <br /> jurisdiction. The workers feel that they are not on the same <br /> status as other County employees. They do not have equipment to <br /> work with and many equipments that are needed on the job is rented <br /> from private contractors. The repair and maintenance of their <br /> vehicles is done by private firms and not at the County mechanic • <br /> shop. Cost-wise, does it not make more sense to have a centralized <br /> system where all repairs of County vehicles would be done in-house? <br /> If government is going to become or has become cost conscious, then <br /> it makes more sense moving toward utilizing what we have in the <br /> County such as the County garage . Let me give you another example <br /> of the kind. of= problems othergovernmental agencies within the :. <br /> County have in trying to work with the Water Department . Within <br /> the Water Department, there is an electronic data processing <br /> system. It is our understanding that some move was made to have <br /> that system fully utilized to its maximum by sharing it, but the <br /> Water Department has not been cooperative. It is beyond our <br /> comprehension why the Department of Water Supply would not want <br /> others to reap the benefits of such •a sophisticated .piece of <br /> equipment . The Department of Water Supply is also under the <br /> • <br />