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In other words, there is no criteria as to, say, that whether the person has any knowledge whether about planning or anything of that sort. He just simply sits on the Board of Appeals. MR. FUKE: That is correct Just to make sure, Fagain, ' that the decision maker doesn ' t abuse their authority. MR. SENSANO: Mr. Fuke, perhaps I misunder- stood you when you first appeared before this group. But at that time, I came away with the feeling, after hearing your statements that you were not happy with your relationship with other departments. Particularly with Research and Development, Parks and Recreation, Public Works and the Department of Waters Supply. Reading your statements today and listening to you, I find your statements are altogether different from what I initially understood concerns you. Could you explain--you allude very lightly on your relation- ship with the other agencies in the last page of your report today, the third paragraph--could you explain some of these concerns which you initially expressed when you first appeared before this commission. MR. FUKE: When I appeared before the Charter Commission what I said in that point in time was that I wanted to reserve comments on because there were certain areas that I wanted to study. Particularly, the relationship between our office and Research and Development. Invariably, the question came up whether the Water D.e,p,ai^:tment, should be under the mayor or an executive type of commission. Specifically, again, my initial reservation was more without studying the charter, was trying to see whether some of the research functions of both the Planning Department and the Research and Development Department could be combined. Again, I looked at the language of the charter and it appears to me there is sufficient latitude within the existing language to allow greater consolidation. Right now, even without making any changes to the charter, for some of the research functions to be combined. Then I also asked myself the question , well what about the development end. Should, for example, R '& Das a"r whole be combined with planning or planning combined with R & D. Then, basically, my conclusion was no. What really made it more clear to me was that I went on a field trip with the rest of the cabinet officers. About three weeks ago we went up to Kohala and in the process, on that field trip, we looked at the various Kohala Task Force projects and I know that the Research and Development Department were kind of like sitting on it. And I . was asking myself, can your office legitlmately handle those kinds of functions and still provide the overall broad planning coordination functions. And I couldn ' t really say,byes. I looked at also, R ,& D ' s efforts right now in trying to coordinate the tourism program either with ASTA or the Travel Writers ' Association program 'in;;JI17.,na,2l - 12 -