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• . 2 ' 5/23/79 Meeting . for in the Charter. So it's up: to you, you're going to have to talk this over and ask Ed and Akira what they think; but if you 're worried about that, you can provide for it in the event the manager becomes unable to serve, the deputy manager shall serve as acting manager until such time that you can hire, but this is my testimony now. • I 'm going to go out here now because you folks are the ones that ought to stand up here and put it on the record because the Corporation Counsel ten • years from now maybe reading this and saying oh, that Roxanna Garcia. . . MANAGER: Well , really it' s up to the guy; really, when you come down to it, up to the individual whose in there - how well they can work, how well they can set up their organization because even right now, too, I don't depend myself on engineering,. I depend on 'qualified guys to work under me because if I were to spend my time in doing engineering per se, I would forget about my other operations, like fiscal. and operations - I got from laborer up to the engineers , I have to deal with state officials, legislators, like that and you know I don't have,time for that, but you know lot of things you know are accepted fact that when it' s engineering, I depend on the engineering division. IIDA: Okay, then in effect are you saying, so you know-- MANAGER: And Ed does that too'. IIDA: Okay, then in effect are you saying that in your position it doesn 't have to be a registered engineer. MANAGER: No, I don't want to say that because maybe because I 'm a. registered engineer that I have a lot of times when I can go and talk with other engineers, talk to legislators and I can talk to maybe consulting engineers like that because lots of things deals with projects, money. TANAKA: So you feel it's important. MANAGER: Well , it helps; put it that way. • KLECKNER: I think, I think when you talk about administrative level positions like head of an operation, head of a department, whatever, you have to take a look at the skills. You have different levels of managerial skills that come • into the picture. For your foreman level , you have a lot of what you call • -11-