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that room for improvements, discuss that, and send a solid recommendation to the County Council instead of leaving and sending a recommendation with an open ended statement. TANAKA: I can agree somewhat to that statement, Commissioner Souza. But as you know with all recommendations that go up to the County Council, they'll have their own discussions anyway, they'll have three readings on this. They might still twist and turn this thing regardless of our recommendation. My only intent in that is to follow along the lines with Commissioner McIntosh's feeling in that we don't know what the exact solution is at this time, and I think you stated this is a step in the right direction, that it needs some further fine tuning. But the fine tuning right now I think we wouldn't be able to do it. I don't think we would be able to reach a consensus today. So my only recommendation is that they look into that. I'm sure that when this proposal or recommendation goes up to the full Council they'll have the minutes of the meeting, they will see our concerns, and with the three readings they have to go through they will have a little more time than we have to, hopefully, improve it. GOLDSTEIN: May I make one more comment on this. This is a bill which proposes an amendment to the Charter and so that ultimately this is a question that will be decided by the, all voters. It needs to go to and be placed on the ballot for confirmation or whatever. So I think it's a good time to start the discussion for some of these changes that are necessary. MCINTOSH: Mr. Chairman, then I'd ask Commissioner Tanaka to be more specific when you ask them to, in your recommendation to look at further streamlining because since this is a Charter amendment it is going to have to go out on the ballot any way. If we think there's a better way to solve the problem, I would ask that we include that solution in our recommendation and then take the argument to the Council. This issue went to the Council two years ago, last year? GOLDSTEIN: Last year. MCINTOSH: Yeah, and didn't get passed the Council because there were concerns. But it didn't include leaving it to Corp. Counsel did it or didn't -? GOLDSTEIN: It did. MCINTOSH: Is the same, this is the same -? GOLDSTEIN: It's the same bill. This is the same bill. MCINTOSH: Okay. So it didn't get past the Council a year ago because it was, they wanted the people's court, so to speak. I think if we retained the people's court and give, offer a solution that also give the people's court more independence, and, yes, we can take that argument to the Council and I think we should. I would just ask you to be a little bit more specific in your motion as to what you mean by more independence. So whatever you said. spa