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There are also functions, for example, like our transportation planning and which agency should be responsible in handling this. Whether it should be the Planning or the Public Works Department. There are many issues and what I would like to do is to reserve some time to study these issues in the total context of the administrative structure and then come forth with my comments and recommendations to the County Charter Commission. At this point in time, I have some preliminary feelings but, again, for the advice to be mean- inful in something as major an undertaking as this , I think that I would like to reserve some time to think about it. MR. SCHUTTE: You mean to say, Mr. Fuke, that ,after being in this department for how many years? MR. FUKE: Officially, as a Planning Director as of May, 1977. So just approaching 2 years. MR. SCHUTTE: Prior to that you were with the department? MR. FUKE: That is correct. MR. SCHUTTE: And you know of nothing that you could come up with now after having worked under this Charter provision for that long? MR. FUKE: No, no. There are, you know, certain areas within the Charter which provide some. . .I think which is in need of certain kind of editorial or cleaning up. There is no question about that but I think that what I would want to do is not only address myself to the specific respon- sibilities that are currently assigned to the office, but I think we have to. . . .I feel, anyway, for the Charter Commission to evaluate the functions of only our office would be. . .well , would not really be the best way of evaluating the entire planning and implementation function of the thing. We would have to evaluate in total , in context, the other agencies. Particularly, the Research and Development. The Public Works Department and of course, our office. We all have overlapping kinds of functions. Maybe it could be greater_ centralized or continued in the same pattern. There has also been, like over the last:year or so a considerable amount of changing in terms of how certain kinds of, how the Planning Commission actions are handled. Increasingly, the Commission 's actions have assumed what is called a contested case procedure, whereby a guy applying for a variance or applying for a rezoning action, the setting before the Planning Commission approach is almost like a courtroom setting where you would have advocate as well as those guys against the petition coming forth in the same testimony and all that stuff. And I think that these -26-