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were not properly acknowledged in the initial Charter back in 1968. But, I don ' t think it is any fault of the Charter and it is more in relation to the current trend of judicial decisions that have come down in the last few years which have required the the Commission to take more of a_=:quasi- judicial fashion. Again, I 'd like to come before the Commission and recommend specific areas of changes. I feel that there are some areas that need to be changed. There is no question about that. MR. SCHUTTE: Mr. Chairman, I 'd like to recommend at this particular time, because of this situation that we reschedule. . .how long would it take for you to come up with some suggestions? MR. FUKE : I guess before the end of the month. See, what I would want to do is separate those areas that need an editorial cleaning up just to make things a little bit clearer. I can give you just as a case in point . . . MR. SCHUTTE: Excuse me, Mr. Fuke. Mr. Chair- man , I would like to give Mr. Fuke the option of preparing himself in relation to the County Charter and how the Department of Planning is placed within it. Can we schedule him, Mr. Omonaka? For another date prior to us going on the road? MR. OMONAKA: Sure, I don ' t see any problem. However, in the case of Mr. Fuke, if we are going to be discussing the Research and Development and the Public Works Department, maybe we should have those people present. Maybe they would have some thoughts on what you have to say. MR. FUKE: Quite possibly. This is just an off the cuff remark but what I was referring to is take, for example, the Research and Development functions. Their office currently handles certain kinds of research activities that our office in the process of working with the Commission must also handle. There becomes the concern that perhaps there should be a consolidations in greater amount, or a continu- ation of this same kind of pattern. Certain kinds of edit- orial comments , for example, in the Planning Commission they were given the role of recommending boundary amendments to the State Land Use Commission. But the law has since changed. Which currently totally eliminates _the Planning Commission from the Land Use Commission boundary actions. And so these are the kind of editorial changes that still should be made. So, I would think that, particulary, the Research and Development and Public Works Departments should also be involved in this as part of your overall review. -27-