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MAYOR MATAYOSHI : For instance, a golf course. You can set up a golf course conceptually. Put that concept into the golf course and let that run. This would gross about $600 thousand bucks. Itcomes to about the same. The lease rental can all go in. So you look at the water system. You can put it in or keep it separate. That is fine, too. Like the highway fund. The highway fund is exactly the same system. It stands alone. You can have better coordination of engineers, if you will , moving back and forth, to help engineers. Move =ohe engineer _fromover-~here to there and back again if you wanted to. You could have your baseyards consolidated to bring down the cost of operations. You could have personnel problems taken care of together. you could have the data, processing. Right now if we—use the data processing we have, to pay the water board. We could work it together. If you need a special revenue, you could put it on the side. You have the fiscal officer. You have a duplication, right now You could probably have one. You could have many kinds of savings, in all kinds of ways. If , you look at the manpower requirements of both sides. You see a lot of duplication. Could you consolidate? I recognize sometimes you get a bigger one and they don ' t move quite as fast. Well , keep some of them separate. That is the administrative capability if under one. I think if it comes under the Mayor ' s office directly that it would be as responsible to the various rural areas too, Akira. I don ' t think it would be insensitive. It would become more sensitive to the rural areas, the various plantation areas can take advantage of that. I feel confident it will. So I really think it is a recognized way of coming from. I think you will find that it will become very responsive. MR. SCHUTTE: Mr. Mayor. You still have, in spite of your suggestions of moving the Department of Water Supply under your office, you still have maintained the general supervision and control over the water department. MAYOR MATAYOSHI : It is very vague. I know you folks were talking about it. The language has to be clarified. What does it mean. Not necessarily the water board now. The police, you've got that. You've got that in personnel services, you ' ve got it in liquor. Those are four agencies you have the same language. It is never quite clear and I guess the police chief objected to have that little control factor and I called him up and we had a nice chat. But what does control mean? General supervision. This , this and this priority. You set the priorities to this and that. No, you cannot. Because the managing director of that water board is responsible and serves , at the pleasure of the commission. So you talk to the managing director, he goes to the commission and tells you what are you going to do. Because if you look at it he serves at the pleasre of. So that is: how it comes. And you also have to watch out some- times the reverse takes place where the commission starts serving the director instead of the director serving the commission because there is a whole citizens 'committee. You look at all citizens ' committees, and I don ' t care what it, -24-