MIN CHARTER 2018-08-10 (2018-2020)

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Hawaii County Charter Commission -2 August 10, 2018 do you feel yourself constrained in any way that you are aware of, by not being identified or created by the Charter, having your agency created by the Charter as opposed to by ordinance? MR. MAGNO: One thing I look at it, it adds continuity. The position can go through different Administrations so it can continue on if things are working right. So I think it works under this current, I guess method that we are created under an ordinance. CHR. ADAMS: And then, just to, follow up I guess to the question that Commissioner Saquing had, when you— of course we are looking at your organizational infrastructure, so when we take a look, we're not going to be able to, because you are created by ordinance, this Commission doesn't really have anything that we can say unless we brought you in under the Charter. Meaning of course the proposal and then the voters would have to do that. The way that things are set up for you right now, it's really a capacity issue for you as opposed to an organizational infrastructure issue for you when you look at your ability to do or handle the issues that you have to handle? MR. MAGNO: Yeah, that's what I believe. It is capacity but you know 127 Alpha allows for other resources. We are pretty fortunate that this County, the atmosphere is that everybody works together so you know, we are aligned with Police, Fire, all the other emergency response folks, so as long as that's the case, 1 think it will work, but you can see we are at our limits at this point. CHR. ADAMS: Well, Mr. Magno, I would, we really appreciate your being here and if you have any additional information or thoughts that you would like to provide to us, we welcome you doing that over the course of the time that we are going to be in session, which will be the next year or so, as we consider these items. Our proposal times are probably going to be up and through the end of the year. We have yet to decide a specific date, but it will be something like that. So, by all means if you have something we would appreciate hearing from you. Thank you very much for making time today, in a very, very busy session for you. MR. MAGNO: You're welcome. 1 look forward to you know, getting more familiar with the Commission and seeing what you guys are all about so perhaps we can work together. Thank you. CHR. ADAMS: Great. Thank you. Alright. I would like to next move to the Office of the Corporation Counsel. Operation of Corporation Counsel Renee Schoen, right? b. Office of the Corporation Counsel — Assistant Corporation Counsel — Renee Schoen Page 6