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a . 4 5/23/79 Meeting • • H) COUNTY CHARTER TANAKA: Again, too, I assume that you've all read the agenda and the attached minutes of the Hawaii County Charter Commission that I testified at. I would like to have us all refer to the County Charter, County of Hawaii 1968. Everybody • got their copies? Article VIII , Department of Water" Supply, pages 18 and 19, • .18 and19., Also, I would- like to refer to our January .meeting in- which testimony to the- Charter Commission was given by the head of-our department, Mr. Fujimoto; it's attached to our agenda of the January meeting,, the testimony that he gave to the 'Charter Commission and also the information that he has supplied us dated •May 16, 1979 with regard to Charter review. What I 'd like -to do at this time- is again open the discussion by referring to Article VIII , Department of • Water Supply, on page 18 and, go through. each section in order to extract from this thing any specific questions: we may hove at this time that could possibly, that we could possibly recommendoto the to the Charter Commission for them to again consider and propose to the voters of the County of Hawaii . Okay, so • that I 'd like to take it .section by section in terms 'of discussion's sake and • .ask you know questions and clarifying matters. and- then in each section give the opportunity to all of us and also to any member of the Department of Water Supply • who wants to interject anything at this time.to do so and then after we have . completely discussed to. our satisfaction, then make specific; recommendations as • to what we would .like to propose • to' the Charter Commission. Okay, so let's start with: • Section 8-1 . Organization. There shall bea semi-autonomous • department of water supply consisting of a water commission, a . manager and the necessary staff. • • Any questions there? No questions.. • I have one. Would anybody like to from the department give us their interpre- tation or their clarification of what semiautonomous means? Akira. MANAGER: Well , semi , the way we understand, I think came about through. the legislative revised laws; it's half - semi means half autonomous; so in other words, we're not a separate organization out of the county - we're part of the county except that the reason why •it's ,semi is that we have a Commission who takes the part of, instead of being. 'either the Mayor or the Council , they are the