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as administrators, myself in particular, run in three areas. We 've got the Civil Service laws that you must contend with. We 've got also the --two areas--labor contracts that we are accountable for. So really when you look for and deal with the employees , you have two contracts going. Two conditions that you have to watch constantly. Civil Service laws and the Labor laws. I say go one or the other. If we go in the contract arrangements with the union , fine, we ' ll deal with the union. If we go with the Civil Service, fine, let ' s stay with the Civil Service. B'ut if you've got two on us it is extremely difficult to administer, and this is a fact. MR. CADINHA: You say this decision is not within the realm of the Chajr. MAYOR MATAYOSHI: No, it is not, unfortunately. But let me just state. We are shifting away from the council represen- tations so we ' ll drop that and go to the next unless someone wants to ask me further about the council makeup. We ' ll drop that and go to the next. Okay? As far as,-these commissions and the form of government they come in, we have four as testified before you. We have the Police, the Liquor, the Civil Service and the Water Board that are the four divisions that are under commission form. My basic thinking is that I have no qualms about the way the police is handled and may I state also for the record that although many of them object to it, I think all three of them, if it stays the same, where it says the general supervision and control of the Mayor. I believe it must have that and all of the four, that is, of the commissions if they remain as commission membered structure. The reason is this , you see, Police, Liquor, Civil Service do not raise taxes they are only spending agencies. They are going to spend. Now, there must be someone who is accountable to raise the funds to run it. If that be the case, I think the one who is raising the money ought to have some say. At least to coordinate the activities, point one. Point two, I think that the various agencies, when you have like for instance Police, Police-Fire, where you have an emergency situation where police, fire and public works will have to get-together. We can ' t have an agency running by itself and deciding that the Chief, in the case of the police would do whatever he pleased. He cannot. You have to coordinate with the other departments. It must work together so there must be a general supervision and control from the County, from the Mayor' s office. I think this is an extreme must to be able to coordinate all the activities that take place. I do not think, however, that the Mayor' s part should go into the actual operational implementation and also the so-called Sriorities in- the case of the police, the Mayor should not step into those areas. The Police Commission should handle that. In other words, keeping the political side of who gets elevated, who gets promoted, who goes what and where. I think that should be left with the Police Commission. But as far as coordination between departments, I think it is very essential . Extremely essential. Point three now we are talking about separation of -12