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system and then you have department heads. Why couldn ' t you just have department heads reporting to the mayor? And, if he has an administrative function with public works, he talks to the public works guy. If it is pertaining to the planning, he talks to the planning department head and you give him some leeway in_ =Subsection (b) where he can appoint the necessary staff as long as he has council appropriation. Why are we creating a department head as a charter item to be carried that is a managing director? I don ' t know what function he provides. I know we are not in that section now, but in Section 5-1.4 (a) it says, "and through the managing director. " That is why I bring it up. I 'm saying a managing director is fine, if a need is shown today, but by putting it in the charter, we are going to have one for ten years whether we need one or not. By eliminating "and through the managing director" in this section, we can cross that bridge later. I don ' t know whether we want one or not. I don' t see that. . . CHAIRMAN SAKATA: There isn ' t a need for a managing director. MRS. KOBAYASHI : Mr. Chairman. I believe at the time we were doing the administrative overview, we never did. . .did we ever have the managing director come and talk to us? I don ' t recall. Perhaps he could be invited to talk to us at some future meeting, unless Akira can shed some light on previous. . . MR. OMONAKA: If you will look at the organiza- tional setup, under the executive branch and the so-called staff agencies -under the mayor and certain departments like public works, parks and recreation are set`: up with the managing director running these departments. The other agencies are so-called executive types. In this way, too, I think if you had something like this, you have a line of succession in terms of temporary vacancy. MR. ISHIDA: I think the only reason they probably did it is probably just dividing up the direct supervision of the different can departments. I know yousay mayor or is Y responsible for all of them anyway. I think that provision in Subsection ( a) in essence, still makes the mayor responsible. MR. CADINHA: The current administration has administrative aides. He has a managing director and a deputy managing director. . . MR. YANAGA: Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask Harlan a question. Harlan , are you saying that wetake out the ,. managing director's job? MR. CADINHA: Well , I 'm asking for a good reason why it should be in there. If there is a. . .Akira, the best' -- reason that he said, for succession, if something happens to the -11-