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whatever is in the administrative branch in terms of personnel. This is why, depending upon the direction that the council wants to assumeat that point in time, they should have the latitude to figure out maybe the next three or four years they want to move more agressively, . for example, on n«theagricultura-1 development program. Under that basis--and then they want to originate atlot oftheir programs and not necessarily wait for the administration--they may elect to hire people in agricul- ture development specialty areas,. But this is , of course, based upon what the council would feel like they themselves want to develop and assist in not only policy formulation but so advisethe executive branch as well . These kind of priorities will generally shift from ktermri;;to<<,term or maybe even within the term.. Whereas. like ..in the administration area you would just generally have a constant flow of these kinds of require- ments. The fiscal and the planning and the public works. 'It is a steady thing. MR. ISHIDA: One more question. Talking about relations between departments. The Planning Department and Board of Water Supply. . Seeing that the Board ofWater Supply has been classified as a semi-autonomous body and consequently there may not have been a direct relationship coming through the M;ayor ' s office the way you are. Now, because of this situation, is there any problems that you a:te;-faced with as to this form of concept? MR. FUKE: The existing setup whether there are any problems? I , personally, haven ' t experienced any problem. All I can say is that there is a potential for the Water^eommission going different ways and I can point out, although it hasn ' t happened, like in the situation for the Water 'Board forL,Aher7J5outh Kohala area. The administration and the County Council were both in unison in terms of the program for that area and the Water Commission was actually required to get the funds fromthe state government for their portion, requesting the governor to release their portion. So, you know, it is conceivable under that setup where you have the legislative and the executive branch concurring on what the policy and implementing it should be.. You could conceiv- ably have a Water; Commission saying well that is not what they want to do and kind of like block the efforts on the legis- lative and executive branch. That is conceivable. I 'm not saying that has happened but thereis the potential for that kind of conflict to arise. MR. ISHIDA: You mean conceptually. Should that situation be remedied? MR. FUKE: I .think so. MR. ISHIDA: What would your recommendation be? Or what would you suggest is possible? MR. FUKE: I really wouldn ' t know because •" you know, I concentrated too much--not too much--but maybe, not enough on our area. I kind of like have an off the cuff - 22 -