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MR. SCHUTTE: Mr. Omonaka, you say you can set these three other departments up on your calendar for another date so we can get both. . .all of them together. It, appears that we 've had Research and Economic Development here today. We've had the Public Works. We've had the Chief Engineer. The Parks Director. The whole bit but it appears that there is nocoordinating but a lack of communications between the various departments. And if you talk to one they feel it 's. . .everything is status quo. You talk to another and it ' s status quo. And now we come to the Planning Department and we find all kinds of des- crepancies. Such as one not being able to. . .or disagreeing with the particular phase of the responsibilities of each department as it relates to the Planning Commission. We look at the Planning Commission as it shows here on the Charter and we can ' t envision the types of problems that you are suggesting. And if there are these kind of problems now is the time to weed it out and get down tothe brass tacks of how it should be handled and what should be done and what the responsibilities are, if it is not spelling out the program properly. I don ' t mean to cut you short on your presentation, today, I just want to give you an opportunity. It appears that you have some very important things that you want to present and if given the proper time would be able to put this into perspective and give us an overall view of how this effects the Llanning Commission. MR. FUKE: As far the tI ►ingw±se is , yes , I think it would help. In my statements I did not want to at all suggest that there are functional problems in the current arrangement. What I wanted to point out is that are areas',"'ghat. . . MR. SCHUTTE: Mr. Fuke, you have already expressed that position and I don 't want you to feel that you are going to be behind the eight ball . It is something that we want to know about. I 'm glad you brought it up. Let 's put it that way. All we want to do is give you the opportunity to show us. Like I say, we talked to these other departments and everything is status quo. Then we come down to the Planning Department where everything is supposed to centralize on we find there areproblems. So this is good. Is there any particular date that would be good for you? MR. TRULSON: Mr. Chairman, I was just looking at the calendar and also the list that the mayor submitted when their Cabinet Meetings are out in the country. It looks like there are only two days available. February 27 or March 6, before we go on the road. -28-