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5/23/79 Meeting • <br /> is to illustrate the growth of the Department and its water systems and <br /> it's not to show the growth in our operations ,, the operating expenses per se.. <br /> TANAKA: Okay. Anybody else have any other questions to this area? Anybody else <br /> have anything else they want to bring up? Anybody want to speak or make--- <br /> DEPUTY I 'd just like to make one comment. It would really be interesting and very <br /> . - MANAGER: <br /> informative to the Commission members if you could find the time to read the <br /> Charter Reivew Committee minutes. There are, so many false statements in <br /> there and I can give you some very specific examples . Fred Koehnen, who <br /> I believe was the last Chairman of the Charter Review Committee, made a <br /> statement that the Honolulu Board of Water Supply was under the administration <br /> of' the Mayor; and this is entirely false. And the committee just goes on; <br /> nobody question that. They take it for what he says. Jack Konno made so <br /> many statements that he could not back up such as the employees of the Board <br /> of Water Supply want to go under the County; that .it would be cheaper for <br /> us to do our own work and repair on vehicles instead of contracting, that <br /> sort of things; we have facts to prove so, that it is not so. If you guys <br /> could just find the time to just go• over, you'd be surprised what you read. <br /> TANAKA: Like I said it before, I read everything. I read all of it. <br /> DEPUTY For the guys who have not. <br /> MANAGER: <br /> TANAKA: And .I agree' with you that there are discrepancies in some other facts that I <br /> found out otherwise but alongwith that . because of the Department's strong <br /> P <br /> stand, right, with regard to keeping it semiautonomous , are you folks <br /> planning to go to the public hearings to rebut any of these statements or <br /> you're going to just. let it be, without any clarification? <br /> DEPUTY Well , maybe the Commission should do something. • <br /> 'MANAGER: <br /> MANAGER: We feel that, I guess when. I say this, most of the employees feel , that we . <br /> would .like to see the Commission support us, support the Department. I <br /> understand the HGEA is going to support us and they have some groups that <br /> are going to support the semiautonomous part. <br /> TANAKA: Again, my questions, okay along the same lines, going back to the initial <br /> presentation, I notice some other department heads who were asked to present <br /> • -20- <br />