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Also, I 'd like to say that in matters like in thepart of the charter where we have departments where we have commissions, I don 't know whether it makes any difference whether it' s a city-manager type of government or not. I think we can more or less discuss whether we should retain commission type or not. And if we in fact do make the decision, Ithink then we would really have the problem as to deciding and inter- preting what the final general administrative superivsor control phrase means in all of those three or four different departments . I for one would like to have the thing clari- fied because apparently on the basis of what testimony we have already received, the respected departments don ' t have anything to offer nor does the administration have anything to offer as to what it really means. Or if they do there seems to be some confusion as to what it means. MR. OMONAKA: Page 35 , Section 13-22 answers that. MR. ISHIDA: No, I was more specifically referring to the commissions like the police commission. . .the administrative supervision clauses where it says, "the depart- ment shall come under the general supervison and control of the mayor. " What does that really entail? I don ' t think that the departments or the Mayor, or the administration, came up with a definitive-answer of what they felt. I think the police department was very clear in their position saying that the police chief has two bosses. I don ' t think that that provision should become construed in that fashion. But I could be wrong. I thought maybe since the confusion is there it is incumbent upon us to at least clarify that interpretation. CHAIRMAN SAKATA: So as of right now we are still not very clear: °.about the administrative supervision per- taining to the department of personnel services or the police department, right? Or what "general supervision" is. MR. ISHIDA: Unless we can ask our counsel to see if he can find out something about it. I think we also should, at this time, since we anticipate we will be faced with the problem of whether we should determine or adopt a different type of plan as far as councilmembers are concerned, as far as their representation as far as county is concerned, I think that we should ask the counsel to initiate research as to what is the standard we must follow. We have, candidly, among -ourselves _determined that this be on the basis of one man , one-vote type of principle, but I think it should be clarified to us what does one man, one vote mean. I would suggest we ask our counsel to start working on that in anticipation of the problem which I think definitely that we will be facing. - 3 -