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MR. TRULSON: Mr. Silva, excuse me if I appear a little confused. Who trains your personnel right now since July 1? MR. SILVA: If you look into the budget message which we sent to the;.:mayor, the personnel department has prepared about 43 or 45 training programs. And the point that I'm making when we look at the basic documents, up to, I think it was 1978, as I cited in my presentation, there was a section in the statute which gave considerable training responsibility to the director of personnel services and that section has been repealed: So there is no section in this statute giving that responsibility to the department of personnel services even though in the spirit of cooperation we do whatever we can to take initiative in the training area. Of course, regardless of where the responsibility is, if you look at all the good text on management, they' ll tell you that every supervisor, every department head, is responsible for the develop- ment and the training of his employees to get the maximum pro- ductivity. My concern is when you refer back to the Maui case, of course that case is a long, difficult and complicated case and I do not want to ovdrsimplyfy it, but what it' s saying is that the personnel function has been reserved by the legislature for the legislature and it doesn' t give the authority to anyone else to meddle in the personnel functions as spelled out in the statutes. So the point I'm making is at one time, as of last year, the statutes had this provision giving responsibility for training to the department of personnel services. But that has been repealed. So then I'm saying that the charter should state that that responsibility should be in the department. And, really, answering your questions specifically, the training responsibility is in the department. Now, but we at the request of the Mayor have done whatever we could to develop training programs for the departments. I hope I've answered your question. You see, training is an inherent part of a supervisor' s duties. He has to be concerned with training and development of his men. MR. TRULSON: I agree. I think I understand that part. If the new employee comes now, according to the statute, who would train the employee? MR. SILVA: That section giving that responsibility to the personnel department has been repealed. MR. TRULSON: So there is an advisory committee on training? MR. SILVA: Yes. The new law which went into effect actually takes the responsibility for the development of the state-wide training program with state officials, specifically the department of personnel services in the state. But the guide, the development of the state-wide training program, the new law also creates an advisory committee made up of the directors of the outside island counties. I believe the universities , the union representatives, representatives from the state department of budget. - 20 -