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water source and the trunk line coming down. That will <br /> develop the area. I recognize the bond payments in this <br /> sort of setup so that individual companies have to pay <br /> so there would be no obligation on the county. I agree, ' <br /> yes, this is the way it is set up, but I think this is <br /> very necessary to do that kind of financing in the future, <br /> or maybe other kinds of financing where the county would <br /> have to become up with its own assets and move ahead. <br /> On the capital side, now, not on the operational side. <br /> And the answering part of it is on the operational side. <br /> MR. TRULSON: Mr. Mayor, under your suggestion, if we put <br /> that the, if we wrote in that the Water Department were <br /> under the authority and supervisory of the Mayor, would <br /> there be any chance of jeopardizing state funding? That <br /> wouldn ' t make any difference insofar as the State Legislature <br /> is concerned? <br /> MAYOR MATAYOSHI: No, I don ' t think so. <br /> MR® SCHUTTE: M . Mayor, looking over the the charter, you <br /> appoint, >9 members to serve on the board who appoint the <br /> manager, who in turn appoint the deputy. However, the final <br /> authority as I understand it here, you sit on top of it all <br /> anyway. How is this different from what you are proposing? <br /> MAYOR MATAYOSHI : Well , a couple of ways. Point one, as far <br /> as that last clause of general supervision and control , I <br /> stated, I 'd like to see it, point one. If any kind of a <br /> commission is going to be set up. But if it is going to <br /> stay the same, what I am saying is that on the other side <br /> of the coin is, two more points , ( 1) is abolish,.the--make the <br /> Water Board, if you want to an advisory but make the direct <br /> department one of the Department of Public Works or Parks <br /> or whatever to be directly under the Mayor' s office. Appoint <br /> directly as one of the divisions. You take away the commission <br /> and you go directly. That ' s point two. Point three, don ' t <br /> put any departments but wipe, it clean and then say "the Mayors <br /> office shall deliver with the approval of the County Council" . <br /> In that case, I 'm not talking about only water but all <br /> departments. <br /> MR. SCHUTTE: With the departments being under the Mayor <br /> directly there is not going to be very much for you to go <br /> aroundato take care of all these things. Where you have the <br /> commissions handling the various things now and if everything <br /> will be put directly under your control . <br /> MAYOR MATAYOSHI: I don ' t quite follow your line of thought, <br /> here. Are you talking about "if departmentally"? In each <br /> department the division chief would still operate as a division , a <br /> department. As you would "have the chief engineer taking care of <br /> the Public Works Department. He ' ll still take care of that. <br /> -23- <br />