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MR. SCHUTTE: Mr. Kim, then what it amounts to is that because this is a position created through an RL it does not have to be mentioned in the County Charter. MR. KIM: Yes , that is how I conclude it. A status quo thing. MR. BESS : Just a point of clarification. This was really a quick look , but the Honolulu Charter does not have any reference at all to the Civil Defense Department. Neither does Maui. Kauai has one and it reads , "there shall be a Civil Defense Agency whose powers, duties , functions and organization shall be provided----for,,by-filaw. This would again revert back to 127. co 3212ecT1/13 MR.CYAGONGQ In case of a disaster you have mit-Se-11"1" to work with other agencies within the county, right? Some- times the police, for example. . .do they come under you during disaster or under their police chief. MR. KIM: Our primary function is that of coordination so we represent the Mayor in coordinating the . various agencies such as the Police, Fire, Public Works. So as I have listed, we have only five in the department. We are just a staff agency. We have no -resources or manpower to do any emergency work but we do coordinate the various outlying agencies if we need them. We will call on the Public Works, as weneed them, and representing the Mayor, we will utilize their services. CHAIRMAN SAKATA: Any other questions? No. We thank you, Mr. Kim. MR. KIM: Thank you. CORPORATION Introduction was, made of Stephen Bess , COUNSEL: Corporation Counsel . MR. BESS : Mr. Chairman , and members of the Commission, I want to apologize for not having a written state- ment here today. I wasn ' t notified of this meeting until this morning. It wasn ' t put on my calendar and so I should have been able to write a written statement while I was back here waiting to appear. But, at any rate, what I would like to do is express my concerns about the structure and organization of our department in written form and the commission can be assured that they will receive that within a week. Basically, I don ' t have any startling changes to recommend as far as our office is concerned. Our office is in Chapter 2 , Section 5 on Page 9 of the current Charter. I would recommend that Section 5-2.4 that refers to Assistant Corporation Counsel be amended with language similar to that found in Maui County' s Charter and apparently at the time that this Charter was written there were just two people in the office and I don ' t know whether or not the Charter Commission envisioned having more than just one person to assist the -- Corporation Counsel but rather than just specifying that the -26-