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MR. SILVA: To train in that area, you have to be certificated. You have people like Alex Demello, who are really experts in his area, and Joe Dart. We have a couple of county employees which we sent to school to become certificated and they train. But not anybody can train. They have to be certificated. What you see in Bayfront, could be training and it could also be Officer Dart actually testing people t;or give them their licenses, operate that kind of equipment. They!:re not actually taking over the training from the county but they are just really giving us another resource. If we want to use, we can. We can still develop our own program, but my philosophy has always been if we can use Federal funds or if we can use state funds or state resources, that' s what we have been doing to save our money. I don' t know if this should be publicized too much but that' s what we've been doing. I would like to emphasize that my concern is the responsibility, being that it' s been repealed from the statute, should be pointed out in the charter. I would like to add that if you look at the present charter, you have a statement like that in the police department which says the department head is responsible for the training of their employees, but you do not find that in the other departments. So my proposal is to put that in the general section under the executive branch to say that all department heads are responsible for training. It doesn' t mean that they will do the training, but they have the responsibility of making sure that their employees are trained so that they can perform efficiently and not take a new man and put him on $50, 000 piece of equipment and have that thing in shambles in six months. MR. SCHUTTE: Section 7-1. 6, administrative super- vision of the department of personnel services shall come under the general supervision and control of the Mayor. Any comments? MR. SILVA: Well, here again, I've always felt that the civil service commission should have full jurisdiction over the personnel department. I can see for administrative purposes you may have to assign the department of personnel services to sub and in this case the mayor would probably be appropriate. MR. SCHUTTE: No, what this refers to, it gives the mayor the general supervision and control of the department. MR. SILVA: That' s right. So my point I'm making is that for administrative purposes, not supervision and control, but for administrative purposes the department should be assigned. MR. SCHUTTE: Why is it that you did hotiiii.clude this in your request for----? MR. SILVA: Well, in my proposal I did leave that out. The proposal that I submitted, on page 2, I did leave that out. MR. SCHUTTE: Have you had any problems in the past? - 22 -