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

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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -3 September 14, 2018 (Note: At this time, Executive Assistant to the Mayor, Roy Takemoto came forward to address the members of the Commission. Mr. Takemoto presented a PowerPoint presentation to the Commission. See Charter Communication No. 4.6) CHR. ADAMS: Thank you for being here. I will ask you to introduce yourself and to give your presentation. If I may just briefly and perhaps you are going to do this, and I am stealing your thunder, we have asked, I would just point out that in our Charter there is a specific portion that is Office of Management and that is what we are asking for the conversation to be about although Commissioners can ask anything they dam well please. So Mr. Takemoto. MR. TAKEMOTO: Thank you for having me. Okay, so if we confine this discussion to the Office of Management, it's basically in the Charter discussing the Managing Director. And the Managing Director basically carries out the directives of the Mayor, and in the Charter the Mayor's powers and duties are intentionally justifiably quite broad. So what I have today is in the Mayor's powers, his initiatives are carried out through the departments. So it comes back to is the organization of the County through its departments adequate to carryout whatever Mayor is in power, their initiatives. So for our Mayor, let's see, so for the powers and duties that's in the Charter. This is just discussing what I just summarized as where the Managing Director's powers originally derive from, which is from the Mayor, executive branch. So the organization, this chart is hard to see but basically there's like three tiers of departments. The first tier is the departments under the Managing Director, the second tier is the departments under Boards and Commissions, the third tier is the agencies like Office of Aging, Office of Housing, that are not in the Charter but still carry out the directives of the Mayor. So for this Mayor, these are the missions and the kinds of initiatives that our Mayor has, as a test to see if the departments has organized now under the Charter, can carry out broad initiatives of any Mayor. So for our Mayor, his initiatives are affordable housing and homelessness, connectedness which means, which goes to the transportation system, but not just roads, but including Mass Transit. A broad health and wellness kind of initiative, where there is a move to try and promote preventative medicine, you know getting active lifestyles and how do we do that. Safety and resilience, that goes to the Public Safety functions, an inclusive and fiscally responsible governance that goes to different initiatives like financing. Environment and culture, which is DEM (Department of Page 32