To accompany Jon Huntsman Jr.'s campaign theme of "a new day," the new executive director of the state Community and Arts Department said Wednesday the state's ethnic minority offices need a new structure to handle future populations. "The current model is not working," Yvette Donosso Diaz told the Legislature's Economic Development and Human Resources Appropriations Subcommittee. Diaz, recently named to the Community and Arts post, also said the offices should work more with state agencies than in their current role of "gatekeepers" between minority individuals and agencies. While minority offices may be able to handle the workload now, in five or 10 years, as the populations grow, they won't be able to, she said. Their job should be to encourage individuals to call agencies themselves, she said. Ethnic populations in Utah have grown 124 percent, Diaz said, but the offices have received little money to do their work. She asked for $250,000 for the offices, which include Asian, Pacific Islander, Hispanic, American Indian and Black affairs. Under the plan Diaz outlined, the offices would keep individual their directors but would report to the director of ethnic affairs. "We don't want them to be viewed as token offices," she said. Diaz said new directors for Pacific Islander, Black and Hispanic affairs offices have not been chosen but that an appointment may be announced soon.