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the population balance i)s going to shift in this county over the next 10 years before the next charter revision and there should be some provision for automatic redisdt-ricting. The only suggestion that:. I can ma=ltie : to you, at themoment, is to take a look at the State Constitution which I believe already has provision for redistricting the House of Representatives and the State Senate. We could base the county, somewhat, on the list there. Well , gentlemen , that is all I have to say. We' ll be. glad to try to answer any questions you have. Again, I 'd like to say we greatly apprectate the opportunity of coming over here and talking to you face to face because in writing letters you don ' t really have the feedback as to how your ideas are being received and I 'm very glad we came over today. MR. SCHUTTE: Mr. Moss , you recommended doing away with some commissions. I didn ' t quite get all of that. Which commissions did you recommend doing away with?" MR. MOSS: Frank. . .? MR. ZUZAX:J We had suggested the consideration of consolidating a number of the commissions and the salary commission which is on page 3 of. the County Charter; the civil service commission which is on page 16 ; the police commission and the reason that we eliminated the police commission if you notice on the organizational chart, the pped.iee has been in- corporated in the department of public service; the liquor which is on page 17 of the County Charter and again looking at your chart under the department of public affairs , you' ll notice personnel. .the second one is liquor, so that is where your liquor control would be. Your water commission is under the department of public works , water, parks and recreation . Now the personnel commission would embody or include the salary, the civil serviceand pension which is not within the charter but is one of the commissions that we currently have. By putting them altogether under one personnel commission it consolidates that. So we are eliminatWng a number of them. MR. MOSS: Frank , isn ' t it right that what . we are really saying is that there should be only three comm- issions left. The board of ethics ; the combined civil service, salary and pension board and the planning commission.. MR. ZUZJ : 3) Right. Those are the only ones that we suggest you consider retaining. MR. ISHIDA: On. this topic is of commissions. ..r� p Mr. Zuza 71 what is the rationale for doing away with the police commission? As I see it, bane of the committee ' s recommendations is that you would like to somewhat curtail the Mayor' s powers. Don ' t you think that by e 1 minating the police commission , you are, in fact, increasing the Mayor ' s powers? - 9