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MR. FUKE: Being able to not only participate but to be able to exercise that participation by voting, I think would enhance the coordination, also. In the absence of having it all under a centralized administration. MR. CADINHA: Thank you. MR. ISHIDA: Mr. Fuke, in your presentation, if it is at all possible, if you could cover two areas that I am personally interested in whether you have any feelings concerning the planning of variances. Should it remain with the Planning Commission or should it be delegated to the descretion of the department head? And also the necessity of retaining the Board of appeals. Both theoretically and practically speaking. MR. FUKE: I have every intention of addressing that question. Thank you. MR. ISHIDA: Also, another thing. You mentioned the Department of Research and Development and Public Works. Would not the Department of Water Supply be involved in. . .be affected by your presentation? MR. FUKE: Well , again, if I can use another analogy. It is just like the environmental impact statement to what extent does our office affect. .or does a project affect something that happens maybe fifty or bne hundred miles away. I think when you look at the planning offices function, it is kind of like the central nervous system for the entire countys operation from the administrative end. And so to that extent our office touches upon each and every activity or agency that the county has whether it relates to Finance, the Parks Department, because we do get involved in -terms of recommending to the mayor and the council the capital improve- ment expenditures and so we have to have some semblance of appreciation of the county' s fiscal posture. The Water Department, very definitely, inasmuch as the intrastructural needs for development primarily in roads and water and sewage system. Those agencies would have to get involved. What I am saying is that you can make an argument for all agencies to be =involved. But I guess that in response to Mr. Schutte ' s question , I was primarily pointing out to the transportation planning functions, the functions of the R & D, I 'm quite sure that no department would escape probably the influence of our office or vice versa. MR. ISHIDA: Then I take it as far as you are concerned, it is the R & D and Public Works Departments that would be most affected by what you think your presentation would be. MR. FUKE: I think at this point in time, again, I guess I 'm only reacting to the questions that are asked but I don 't know if it might be too much for my office, right now, at this point in time, to evaluate the Charter. Particularly in relation to the executive branch in total. It might be too -30-