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f 4 t 5/23/79 Meeting changes to specific areas here or whether we keep it the same; if we keep it the same, let's say we agree to remain semiautonomous and I think the gray areas like you know 8-5, I don't know how we can change it but to me that's too general you know a statement or whatever; there's no real meaning to me. MANAGER: The newspaper, Hugh Clark's newspaper, quoted that I was one that said abolish, but that's not right. Civil Service says abolish that and Police says abolish that section. When they asked me, the only thing I told them this thing should be clarified instead of abolishing because to me I thought that the direction of the County, you got to follow one direction and where the County is going and that' s from the mayor and so it should be clarified to say what it means . I didn't say abolish that portion if you look into the Charter Commission minutes; but Hugh Clark said I said to abolish that section. I think we all should know where the whole County is headed for and that's where the general supervision will come in, not specific supervision like cooperation, that's the Commission 's job; that's why we go to cabinet meetings like that to know what's going on, what's the thinking of the County, the administration, where they want to go, the direction. IIDA: So that what you're saying maybe-- MANAGER: It should be clarified, define this. IIDA: What general supervision is and what control is. MANAGER: Instead of leaving it up to interpretation; some people don't know how to interpret this like the Police Commission and maybe Civil Service Commission like when they say knock it off, you know I didn't go along with that. IIDA: Yes, I remember reading that. TANAKA: Thank you for bringing that up. I think that you know we're very uncomfortable with Section 8-4 you know its a too broad and general area and but I still don't know how we can clarify it; personally, I don't have any specific recommendations in terms of clarifying that particular area but does anybody else have, does anybody else have anything specific with regard to general supervision? KAWAMATA: Maybe the Mayor' s office can do some clarification on that. Let the Mayor tell us what it is . -23-