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may be removed upon recommendation by the mayor and the <br /> approval of the council. I think in all these other commissions <br /> we have, they don ' t need the recommendation, or the approval <br /> of the council. That portion, i believe, will have to be <br /> changed. <br /> MR. ISHIDA: I think all commission members <br /> require council approval. We didn 't change that. <br /> MR. SCHUTTE: Yes, but, remove upon recommendation <br /> by the mayor and the approval of the council. We have changed <br /> that to read that they may be approved by the council but <br /> removed by the mayor. <br /> MR. ISHIDA: That is department heads. <br /> MR. SCHUTTE: I would think that this is not <br /> consistent then. <br /> MR. ISHIDA: No, I think it is, consistent. If <br /> I can say something on that. I think commission members are not <br /> directly accountable to the mayor. They have an independent - 7- ry-77 <br /> , position , and this is why, I think, the removal requires action <br /> MR. SCHUTTE: But didn ' t we just last week <br /> decide that that wasn 't so, or am I wrong? <br /> MR. ISHIDA: Department heads, yes. <br /> MR. SCHUTTE: No, I am talking about the executive <br /> branch, departments or agencies under commissions. Didn ' t we <br /> discuss something relative to that? <br /> MR. ISHIDA: Not the removal of commissioners. <br /> The Planning Director. The Planning Director, as -originally <br /> stated, to be removed, requires council approval. Even <br /> corporation counsel, originally. In the present charter, for <br /> removal, it requires the approval of the council. <br /> MR. TRULSON: Mr. Chairman. Mr. Cadinha, if we <br /> reduce the term there will be staggered terms of five years. <br /> Like in a commission composed of five commissioners, there is <br /> only one that has a term of five years. By the way I read this. <br /> . . .Upon the initital appointment of the members of a commission <br /> consisting of five members, one shall be appointed for term of <br /> one year, one for a term of two years, one for a term of three <br /> years, one for a term of four years, and one for a term of five <br /> years. <br /> MR. CADINHA: Well, this was initially, my <br /> interpretation so, now, I say, this was when <br /> the charter was new, so, now, that any time one comes up for <br /> appointment, he or she gets a five year appointment. That was <br /> initially to get the staggering. <br /> -39- <br />