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MR. ISHIDA: I am unfamiliar with any county or state government which has this position. Do you folks "know :of_ any government that has this position? One point I am concerned with is the removal portion. Whether the removal should be approved by council or the legislative branch of the government of a department head. i , personally, am not aware of any and I was wondering if someone in your organization might known-, that. MR. GARRISON : No, I am not familiar with that and in the other charters they don ' t go into that detail in many cases. MR. ISHIDA: We have a lot of governments that where the appointments , in many cases, are subject to confir- mation. I have never seen one where the removal has that same procedure. MR. GARRISON: In some of my review of the various charters that I requested from around the country, I have found our charter to be rather clear and concise in many areas where other charters are not as clear and concise. I think the intent of the Kona Coast Chamber of Commerce position is to clarify some issues and try and develop _some things that maybe could enhance the overall administrative legislative process of our county and represent the people better because we are still a government of the people and by the people and for the people. The intent is not 'to limit any- body' s responsibility or position. The intent is to enhance and make it more workable within the community. Maybe my compadre has a comment. MR. BARTSCH: I think what we were attempting to do in that particular item was to force a closer working relationship between the mayor and the county council . - Prior to 1968 it was the board of supervisors. They all had pretty well equal poweras they discovered. This charter was de- signed to correct that and in our opinion this charter did an overkill on it. The pendulum went too far the other way where now we have a very strong mayor and a very weak county council . What we were attempting to do in some of these things is bring the power back somewhat to the middle where the councilmen have some power and the mayor does not have as much power. But we feel that it is a good charter, as Garry said, but it went too far to correct the situation that existed prior to 1968. We feel that we would like to see it brought back somewhere in the middle. This was one of the things by giving the council members more power. It may be the wrong approach, but that was what our rationale was. MR. ISHIDA: I can understand that. The only thing I have in mind, right now, is if we do have the removal portion subject to council ratification--I 'm also assuming that the Chamber' s position is that the council can initiate the removal also. Would I be wrong in assuming that? - 19 -