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MR. KUNIYOSHI: I don' t know if I really understand. As I said, we moved from the old system, which at that time, I was under civil service. The reason could be this. Because under the old system, the old liquor commission made the appointment of myself and the staff, so it could have been that the rationale was that as far as the appointment of the staff, we left the power with the liquor commission. Mr. Sensano, I'm not appointed, as I said. This appointment and removal of this position would happen whendmy successor comes in. As I said, we' re all under civil service and it was only one body, at that time. We didn' t have a liquor control adjudication board. Also, there was not a third body which I have for that position. It was under this , everything was under the liquor commission. Total operation and the preparation of the budget, the appointment of myself and the staff. I don' t know if I've answered you. MR. SENSANO: No, I'm just curious because if the charter is the law under which you' re working, then I should think that you should be responsible only to that body which is supposed to appoint a man in your position under the charter. MR. KUNIYOSHI: But you know, Mr. Sensano, the liquor commission is composed of seven members who are not con- nected fulltime with the government. As I said, they only meet once a month. They only deliberate on the matters of issuing liquor licenses. As far as the liquor commission, the total membership, most of them are not familiar with the daily operation. So in that sense, there is some conflict because, as I said, frankly, I dohnot report to the liquor commission on the daily operation which takes up 90 percent of our time because according to charter, I'm not required to report to the liquor commission nor to the adjudication board. If there is anything else that I have to report, I have to report to the Mayor because I'm one of his department heads. We do report at cabinet meetings what is happening to our department, our programs, our objectives, our goals. For example, the past Sunday we had a meeting with the Mayor and the Mayor would ask us what is your program for the year 1979? Reporting to the liquor commission, I don' t think there is any ideal such a thing, because this is a day-to-day operation. So I would say as far as reporting, I think the general supervision should be under the Mayor, but I have no answer to this idea why only the liquor commission has the appointive authority. MR. SCHUTTE: What you' re trying to say is that with the implementation of this charter, you said you were the director of liquor control prior to that. Your status then moved as the director of liquor control under the charter, however, you are not governed by the charter until your successor comes in. Is that what you' re saying? That your position is not governed by the Charter?tn MR. KUNIYOSHI: When you say, whether I'm governed by the charter no, I'm governed by the Charter. MR. SCHUTTE: Mr. Sensano asked you when you moved over into this position under the charter, are you not governed by the charter? Is that correct? - 8 -