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• <br /> , ' • 5/23/79 Meeting <br /> • <br /> DEPUTY <br /> PLANNING Instead of being ex-officio, .you mean have a vote? <br /> DIRECTOR: <br /> At the top of my head, there are advantages and disadvantages. <br /> TANAKA: Go ahead. <br /> DEPUTY <br /> PLANNING Again, it depends on whether or not the Commission itself still retains <br /> DIRECTOR.: <br /> semiautonomous status . If it does, then I would suspect it would be more <br /> . beneficial ; you would have more active participation on our part perhaps and <br /> also that of the chief engineer. • <br /> TANAKA: Thank you. Mr. Kuba, you have any thoughts since you're representing Mr. Harada? <br /> KUBA: I think I would have to concur. <br /> TANAKA: WithDuane so that what you're saying is that if it's semiautonomous, if it <br /> stays semiautonomous, you would think that vote would mean having a member <br /> • from the public works voting on the Commission would be important to the <br /> • functions of the Department. • <br /> . MANAGER: Then the chief engineer has, to come. <br /> IIDA: That's right. <br /> TANAKA: Okay, all right. Anybody else have any comments to make in this particular <br /> area? Okay. Can we take--- <br /> KEAWE: Mr. Chairman. . <br /> TANAKA: Yes , Clarence. <br /> • KEAWE: It's kind of hard to explain why you mention nine members on the Commission <br /> and then just six geographical areas. Couldn't you mention the nine geographical <br /> areas? <br /> TANAKA: As .a suggestion, sure. <br /> IIDA: Well , just prior to what you know the other thing that came up, I just thought <br /> that• I think, I feel and I think that it was written this way because <br /> probably they figured it would be difficult to get people- to serve from this. <br /> certain other geographic areas and if you tie yourself up by designating nine <br /> you know you might -have; I don't know, I could be wrong; but that thought just <br /> came up. <br /> MANAGER: One thing you got to realize, too, on this Commission, the 5-year term is <br /> really short;. you know really your term is really short because there's a lot <br /> • of hard decisions you 'got to make in money financing kind, an important <br /> • thing; that by the time you learn, for anybody to learn you know what's <br /> -7- <br />