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The Deputy Managing Director has come about <br /> subsequently ' back in the early 70 ' s, I believe it was. <br /> Someplace around there anyway that there was .-a ;heed as greater <br /> and greater responsibilities were put on the Mayor' s office in <br /> terms of interdepartmental coordination became necessary. And <br /> of course, the housing, the LEAA and some of the other various <br /> staff agencies and office of manpower all began to expand and <br /> the emphasis shifted in that area and it became necessary for <br /> someone to coordinate all those activities. <br /> If you look at that in that light--I do have <br /> a table of organization set up for my office. I don ' t know <br /> whether you have had occasion to look at it. Chairman , did <br /> someone pass out the table of organization of my office? <br /> Is a machine handy around here someplace? While they are <br /> being run off for you, let me just explain to you how I have <br /> it set up. <br /> With this in mind, I have set up the Managing <br /> Director being in charge-:of and to coordinate all of the <br /> activities of the outlying agencies and the Deputy Managing <br /> Director in all areas of staff agencies. In other words, the <br /> Deputy Managing Director in terms of areas of finance, <br /> personnel , corp counsel and R & D and then in the Deputy <br /> Manager' s coordination areas and supervision and in the area <br /> of the outlying agencies, the police, the fire, the water, <br /> parks, public works. I might have missed a few here but <br /> anyway that is the way it is done. <br /> And the reason why I feel very strongly that <br /> there is need for this kind of effort is like any corporation, <br /> I think you need the various vice-presidents , or group of <br /> vice-presidents, if you want to call it that. It is necessary <br /> to have. And then you have groups, if you call it the group <br /> vice-president. Then the planning director would be considered <br /> the group vice-president of outlying agencies and then he would <br /> report. And the Deputy Managing Director would be the group <br /> vice-president in charge of staff agencies. And then , therefore, <br /> these two would then report directly to me. And myself, <br /> included , there are other than just needing these various <br /> things but we also have ceremonial duties which, by the way, <br /> gets pretty heavy at times and I have been passing it on quite <br /> a bit to other people, other members of my staff and my cabinet <br /> as much as possible. It does become very necessary in the <br /> local political picture to be asked to appear at many of these <br /> things. And the island is big and it does take time to go <br /> around and around. So we are called upon to do quite a bit <br /> of that. <br /> So, basically, this is way it is set up and I <br /> feel it is very, very essential because in the present <br /> managerial problem areas of business that these managerial <br /> staffs be put in the County Charter. Because that would assure <br /> at least ( 1 ) succession and ( 2) a control factor. Otherwise, <br /> I have not had the problem with the Managing Director but <br /> Deputy Managing Director I have had a little problem with in <br /> the past. But it could be that the legislative branch may <br /> want to sometime put a real crimp in not counting the spirit of <br /> the charter, itself, in separation of powers, but may really <br /> -3- <br />