MIN CHARTER 2018-09-14 (2018-2020)

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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -3 September 14, 2018 CHR. ADAMS: "Director shall have had a minimum of five years of related experience." Related to what? MR. WHITMORE: Well, to continue what Diane was saying, you know, you could describe the department in a number of different ways. You could call it you know, Community and Economic Development, you could call is Sustainable Development, the bottom line is, you know any Director that comes in is not going to have likely you know, super deep level of experience across the range of issues that we face on a daily, weekly basis. CHR. ADAMS: Sure. MR. WHITMORE: You know, Diane's got tremendous experience in agriculture, I have experience in other areas, you know, you've got to work together as a team and figure things out. So as Diane said, it's fundamentally, it has to be somebody who has worked in areas of complexity and where you are dealing with looking at things in a comprehensive systemic way. Cause fundamentally a lot of what we do is search for solutions and try to innovate because we are dealing with largely complex, thorny issues that touch many different aspects of community and economic life. CHR. ADAMS: Okay. Is five years enough? MS. LEY: Is five years enough? Most likely. You know I think that the first number, or letter A managerial legislative decision making programmatic and policy and I would throw in budgeting, you know really gives you the basics for what areas you are going to be tracking in and then as Ron indicated, and then you are going to end up diving into different programmatic areas. Buts() much of it whether you're focused on energy or tourism, there's overlap in all of these initiatives and there is overlap in all of the skills that you bring to it and so, but, I think if you... five years is probably ample. CHR. ADAMS: Okay. The other thing I had a question about had to do with your department at least from my perspective, your department is the department that allows the County executive at least to look forward. Everybody else is doing stuff by and large and you are, you're helping with some of that as well, but part of your responsibility is to be the strategic, to have the strategic perspective at least to try and bring that, doing the future looking. Does that need to be included anywhere? You feel that's covered in what we are talking about when we talk about the powers, duties, and functions? One of the things that I get on my high horse about when we look at what we are doing here is to try and take a look at what the Charter is designed for in not just 10 years but in 20 years and so, I want to make sure that knowing that you're supposed to be the tip of the spear when it comes to looking at what are we doing Page 10