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got the checks. You know, mayor appoints- and council confirms. The other way is to have an executive commission nobody bothers. The commissioners themselves appoint the planning director., What I am suggesting over here is that inasmuch as the basic ertnphasis has been on how you achieve better coordination of implementing functionsli t- ' policies are established by the council , the legislative branch, and the administrative branch is then designed to implement these policies. So how do you coordinate these implementations. I think the best way to coordinate it is if it is all under one house. It is easier. But, as I again say, it depends on what the general thrust of the Charter Commission is. I don ' t think you 'lshbuld necess- arily dismiss the idea of looking at other alternative options of the planning organization. MR. CADINHA: What would the function be for having the County Council with its own planning staff? Under your concept, if there is no confirmation needed and the planning function is purely administrative, then why should the council have a planning staff What would that staff ' s function be? MR. FUKE: Can you restate. . .I 'm trying to understand your question. . . MR. CADINHA: As I understand it, Sidney, what you are advocating is that there is no County Council approval necessary for appointment but it is purely the mayor taps the planner and he becomes a planner. Okay, if we accept that and as a body enact that in a charter, you have another recommenda- tion and that recommendation is that the County Council should have its own planning staff. MR. FUKE: No, I didn ' t say it should have its own planning staff. What I am saying is it should have its own staff support. MR. CADINHA: What is the function of its staff support? MR. FUKE: Essentially,. it is like perhaps the languageof the existing charter allows it to. .but if the legi- slative branch is to not only review whatever comes over from the administration but also wants to be in the position of ind- ependently arriving at policies then it should have at least some amount of staff support to help them prepare these policies Otherwise, they, themselves, have to do it all . It is kind of like, for example, I know that the •legislative auditor ' s office does a lot of the staff support services and perhaps if whether it is that office or another .; „ office maybe attached .to the County Council , can provide the= ni- tate fun.cton JIt is kind of hard to determine whether there should necessarily be one planner, one chief engineer, one parks or whatever have you. But as I explained earlier, I think it is more a question of what the emphasis of the present council ' s makeup would be. And there should be some amount of latitude. - 20 -