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I find myself thinking that is wrong. A person representing <br /> that district should be elected by the people in that <br /> district. '-If we are going to have district representation <br /> that we should have the House members come. In that case, <br /> when a person is representing the First, Second, Third or <br /> Fourth District, or whatever district, he is the one that <br /> is elected out •ofetthat district and the people in that district <br /> have voted for him. He is the one that represents it. I think <br /> that is correct. <br /> MR. CADINHA: Mr. Mayor, you mentioned awhile back , initiative <br /> and referendum powers. I take it, that you agree with that <br /> being part of the charter? Our current charter specifically <br /> removes the power of initiative and referendum insofar as <br /> fiscal matters , levy ;of taxes , etc. Do you agree with that <br /> or should we, in your mind , throw that , out? <br /> MAYOR MATAYOSHI : No, I agree with that. I agree with the idea <br /> that they should not be on a referendum basis. In the case of <br /> the moneyed items because I do think that the responsibility <br /> of running the government and everything else is set up with <br /> the elected officials. In other words , with the County Council <br /> having the ultimate say. And they are the representatives of <br /> the people and they are then voting accordingly. You may look <br /> at it, the island the size it is and the basic services that <br /> are necessary, you must raise the moneys accordingly to be <br /> able to meet the levels that you want to. You might have just <br /> a district say cutting down their expenses , just to go by <br /> initiative and to cut down the cost of income for the county <br /> government, you've g;ot a hell of a problem. I think that the <br /> system as it is now is correct. The elected officials, myself <br /> included must:,,answer to any tax bill that would come up. <br /> MR. CADINHA: I have one more question, Mr. Mayor. Does the <br /> aspect of Civil Service within the groups that you administer <br /> to make any difference insofar as your administrative <br /> authority or powers. Could you administer more easily, or <br /> does it make a difference whether we have Civil Service or not? <br /> MAYOR MATAYOSHI: You are talking about the Civil Service <br /> laws? <br /> MR. CADINHA: From the standpoint that the employees are Civil <br /> Service employees. Is there any administrative encumbrance <br /> or benefit that thereis. . . <br /> MAYOR MATAYOSHI : Well , I would think, let me preface that if <br /> yousare talking about the Civil Service laws across the charter <br /> they do not have any powers as far as personnel problems go. <br /> Point 1, you could not write into the charter anything about <br /> personnel law because the enabling act takes that power, preempts <br /> that area into the state level, to be perfectly candid about <br /> that, and I think this is a problemthat„ .you have. Point ( 1) <br /> is just to clear that. But Point ( 2) as far as the operational <br /> system, yes , it is very difficult. You must remember that we <br /> -11- <br />