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t I. . 5/23/79 Meeting testimony to the-.Charter Commission you know asked to be .excused because they were not prepared or they didn't have anything ready and I just wondered why it Was not brought before us for our consideration in terms of the initial proposals before it actually went before the Charter Commission. MANAGER: Because we didn' t have time to contact you. It was just a last minute thing; on,a •certain date, please come and testify and let us know about your Department and so at that time I had to go to Honolulu because we had the first •Finance :Committee hearing so I asked Ed to draft it outand we went • through the draft. and I came back that afternoon and presented that to the Charter Commission. • TANAKA: • No, but that's the point I 'm making. Some other department heads didn't make their presentation at the time they were scheduled to and they asked to be you know moved' to another time and I just wondered why. . . MAMANGER: We tried to. get it moved, but all they did was extend the time from 3:00 to 5:00 . TANAKA: • • Okay. MANAGER: At least. I checked. with Jerry, he was the Chairman. KAWAMATA: . Mr. Chairman, may I- say something. . TANAKA: Yes. KAWAMATA: . . .I think I 'm making an assumption, an assumption, that the staff, the entire water department staff, wants to be semiautonomous including all personnel of the Department of Water Supply.-- DEPUTY You cannot--- • MANAGER: TENGAN: That's an incorrect assumption. DEPUTY • You cannot make that assumption. MANAGER: TENGAN: We haven't polled the employees, so we don't know. • • TANAKA: You're just asking him to clarify the statement that he just made.. KAWAMATA: From what I thought that the poll, stated that. MANAGER: No, we didn't say about a poll . KAWAMATA: No, the general feeling was that. -21-