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the broader economic policy areas like in tourism or agri- culture, the planning function should be handled by the Planning Department. The actual implementation of those functions should be handled by another agency. There is kind of like a strange mix. Take, for example, the state passed a law requiring the counties to develop Via:=+program requiring parks for all of the sub- divisions within the island. It ' s the park's dedication requirement. The state law says that county planning, you guys have got to be responsible because you guys handle the subdivision. But on the other hand, who is the one who is a little bit more knowledgable in figuring out where the parks should be; what the park ' s ratio should be within an area. And that logical):y falls within the Parks and Rec- reation Department. Not because it involves land, then it is the Planning to be handling. I feel that what we should be doing as the Planning Department is making sure that all of these diff- erent kinds of concerns; the water; the sewer; the roadway system or the park facilities are all over there but letting the other guys doing it and we pulling it all together. So, in a sense, we become the major coordinators but we don ' t actually become and assume the functions of implementation that is currently assigned to the different agencies ; the Parks ; the Public Works ; the Research and Development ; and also the Water. MR. SENSANO: Don ' t you think , Mr. Fuke, that if these different departments were under one head there would be less tendency to build empires of their own regard- less of the general welfare of the county. MR. FUKE: I don ' t know, I guess you get two ways of looking at it. I can ' . just, for example, point out the State Department of Land and Natural Resources where you essentially have about four or five major divisions. You have state parks ; land management ; forestry. In our past experience, it has been just as difficult in getting decisions or getting things done through one department in which you house several major divisions as opposed to also working with another agency. I don ' t think , necessarily, the answer is to putting it all in one house because even within one house you would have to establish major divisions and in sometimes getting response from the major divisions , if the department becomes a very super department, very large, it becomesquite difficult. MR. CADINHA: Mr. Fuke, currently how does a general plan revision come about, mechanically? - 14 -