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MR. ISHIDA: Now, can you give us any reason as to <br /> why possibly any changes should be made because of your 10-year <br /> experience? Has there been any conflict that you could see <br /> resulting or are you more or less saying that because you were .; <br /> grandfathered in, you' re a special situation, that a person who <br /> follows you in might be confronted with the problem? <br /> MR. KUNIYOSHI: Okay. My answer to that would be <br /> as far as the organizational setup, I have no quarrels. My only <br /> concern is, as Mrs. Kobayashi said, is that because the liquor <br /> commission appoints the director, in a way, it' s very difficult <br /> for a person in that position. Who is he accountable to? <br /> MR. ISHIDA: You don' t find yourself in difficult <br /> position? <br /> MR. KUNIYOSHI: At times I do, because the liquor <br /> commission would like to tell me certain things, the Mayor tells <br /> me certain things, my staff tells me certain things. It would <br /> remove many problems that this appointment power would resolve <br /> somehow. I would agree with you. I don' t think one body should <br /> be the appointing authority under this present setup. Naturally, <br /> if this board after the deliberation feels that the commission <br /> and the adjudication board should be combined into one body you <br /> may have less difficulty, your question would be resolved. As I <br /> said, prior to the adoption of the charter, we were under the <br /> other system which still prevail in the County of Hawaii and the <br /> County o;f Honolulu. As you say, it doesn' t concern me but in a <br /> way whoever my successor is may have that problem, you know, <br /> hierarchy, the way it' s set up, the way the responsibilities, who <br /> is he responsible to. <br /> MR. ISHIDA: Were you involved during the drafting <br /> of this present charter? <br /> MR. KUNIYOSHI: No. I'm only familiar because on <br /> the first charter commission, I was the liaison officer to the <br /> first charter commission. <br /> MR. ISHIDA: Are you aware of the principles or the <br /> policies, why this system was adopted? <br /> MR. KUNIYOSHI: Frankly, I don' t think I was ever <br /> called before the second and third charter commission and that ' s <br /> why I didn' t give any input. If I was called before the second <br /> and third charter commissions, these organizational setup was <br /> deliberated upon, I would have made comments at that time. I <br /> would have maybe posed the same question that I'm posing right <br /> now. <br /> MR. SENSANO: Mr. Kuniypshi, we are now operating <br /> under the charter but you' re telling us that the Mayor controls <br /> you sometimes and then the Liquor Control Adjudication board. <br /> Shouldn' t you be responsible to the body that appears as an <br /> appointment group under the charter? Or are you still, if we are <br /> now operating under the charter and the Mayor appoints the Liquor <br /> Commission which in turns is supposed to appoint you, then aren' t <br /> you supposed to be responsible to the liquor commission alone? <br /> - 7 - <br />