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INTRODUCTION OF COMMISSIONERSPage 6 of 29 <br />WURDEMAN: There will be but for now, I’ll assist the Commission. Previous Commissions <br />have had special Counsel. What’s your budget situation? <br />LEGASPI: We’ll have to decide that. <br />WURDEMAN: It has been the general rule, if that’s your wish, that’s fine. If not, then it’s my <br />duty to assist you. <br />RAY: Do we have option of who assists us from your office? <br />LEGASPI: We’ve always had an outside attorney. <br />WURDEMAN: As I said, it’s my intention to personally assist you, at least until everything is <br />rolling smoothly, and then I guess we can discuss such conflicts. <br />RAY: It’s just that in terms of continuity of legal advice and whatever, I’d like to have somebody <br />on board who’s going to be there. Not necessarily starting out, but once we do have somebody <br />assigned, that person is with us throughout the process. <br />WURDEMAN: One other consideration you should keep in mind is that the people in my office <br />are sort of sub-specialized in various things like public works, finance, things like that and for <br />any particular subject matter that is on the agenda, it might be better to have the person that <br />knows that area best rather than have the same person all the time. But we’ll try and assist you <br />as best we can. <br />RAY: We have access to your office in addition to our own counselor? <br />WURDEMAN: It’s our job to provide you advice; we don’t provide advice unless it’s asked for. <br />RAY: If we are going through a specific section by section review, we can ask Corporation <br />Counsel to be part of that review? <br />WURDEMAN: Of course. <br />SANTANGELO: I guess under B – Election of Officers. Options: outright, offer a slate and <br />defer to the next meeting or appoint a nominating committee. If I understand right, we have two <br />officers to elect, a Chair and a Vice-Chair. So at this committee as a whole, I open it up, what’s <br />the will? Do we want to elect outright today, do we want to offer a slate for next meeting, or do <br />we want to appoint? <br />RAY: I know that John Santangelo called some members of the commission in regard to this <br />appointment and I know that he put my name out there so I just want to speak to that. When <br />John called me I told him I’d be happy to serve, I’ll also be happy be happy to serve with <br />whoever you guys feel would be best qualified. And as far as the process, whatever everybody <br />is comfortable with, whether we choose somebody today or whether we appoint a nominating <br />committee, I’m fine with that too. <br />SANTANGELO: And to make that clear, my phone call was who I supported and asking for the <br />people to consider that. I don’t think I asked anyone to vote in a particular way. And just to <br />qualify that too, I think I talked to everybody here and the people I didn’t I tried to get a hold of <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 2-20-99.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />