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• MR. CADINHA: Would it be possible then to, have the planner report directly to the County Council and whatever comes out of that mill it is up to the (, i�ayor to administer® Is that theoretically possible? MR. FTJKE: Sure, that ' s right® And I think that is how it should be. You know, we provide some of the, critical staff support required by the legislative branch, otherwise what youare going to end up with is two of the same kind of branches with the same kinds of personnel and I think that under those bases would be a real duplication of functions. And) sour role, even if It is on a mayor appointed, no confirmation is still to respond to the needs of the County Council at the legislative branch. MR. CADINHA: What about removing the function completely from the administrative branch and putting it under the legislative appointment like the clerk? MR. FUKE: You mean the Planning Director? I have to think about that. MR. CADINHA: Because if it is purely staff and the policy making body ��'jas you see it, is 62lEgOlative0 body. Then it should be removed from the administrative body. To me that seems logical. MR. FUKE: You have situations where, as I indicated earlier, Harlan, like the Finance Director also advises in legislative policy making in the fiscal area. The same thing with the Parks Director. in the parks area; and the . . Chief Engineer. So, - I don ' t think you can necessarilyc= single out the Planning Department function and say it should be housed within the County Council. MR. CADINHA: I 'm being a_.dev l's_ad_ko-ca>te_but what I hate to see is a cluttering up of staffs for staffs for staffs. I 'm trying to justify in my own mind clearly why the council needs any kind of planning staff at all. If they get direction, financially,, and on fiscal matters , from the Finance 61v,ectiftfWAIf they get direction, legally, from the Corporation Counsel. If they get direction from these various divisions of government that are currently administrative, to • follow your argument then they. need a legal staff; they need a planning' staff; they need a finance staff; and everything else® We are running into duplication and I don ' tunderstand completely what you are saying. I don ' t see the need. Or these is no need. , I 'm just trying to, as I said, be a devil ' s advocate to understand. MR. FUKE: For the sake of emphasis , all I 'm . saying is that the legislative branchshouldbe allowed to have some amount of staff: to provide normal administrative function required%,`for running the legislative branch. A lot of the basic advisory functions should come from the adminis- trative branch whether they come from the Planning Director, the Finance Director or the Chief Engineer or whatever. Therefore, I don ' t. necessarily see the need to duplicate - 21 -