CHC 1979-01-16 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home

MRS. KOBAYASHI: You want the Charter to put it in each department head is responsible. MR. SILVA: That' s right, and I might add you already have that in the present charter for the police department. So, instead of limiting it to one department, say all departments are responsible. MRS. KOBAYASHI: But then would that not involve additional employees_ somewhere? MR. SILVA: Not necessarily. MRS. KOBAYASHI: You can still utilize the other resources that other people have. MR. SILVA: If you say that the department head is responsible, it doesn' t mean that he would have to train or anybody in his department would have to train. He can come to me because I sit on the state advisory committee which is by statute. MRS. KOBAYASHI: Do you presently, within your department, have training officers? MR. SILVA: I have one training officer. When they come to me, I go to this advisory committee, I tell them what we need and we discuss it. If there is a need, the program is established, because they make an effort to establish a program or they have resources to refer me to. Then we get these people to come in and give the training. But what I am saying or trying to say is we don' t want department heads to feel, oh, I got nothing to do with that. So we' re saying "no, " you've got to train your people so we can increase the quality of public service and better the productiv'i`ty, this kind of thing to give us a better county government or better county administration. To me it' s a very important function. I would like to emphasize, what I'm trying to do is focus the responsibility, instead of leaving it all very vague. CHAIRMAN SAKATA: Mr. Silva, at present in your department, are your personnel all certified personnel, Office-wise. Whose working in your department? CHAIRMAN SAKATA: You do want to have a training program so you can certify certain personnel to work in specific areas? MR. SILVA: Well, certain kinds. The instructors, for example, the people who instruct on the road for these people operating heavy trucks, they should be certificated. But if we say that the department is responsible for the development of the training program, then he would come to me and tell me he needs this kind of training and I could contact the people in the state to see if they have these instructors. They could come over and give the training. But there are other alternatives. As I said, the State advisory committee on training is only one alternative. It doesn' t mean that we cannot establish in addition - 24 -