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<br />district and two year terms? And the actual language that goes in the Charter is, you know, maybe a
<br />couple paragraphs to do that. So I think I did both of those things, and not necessarily at the same -, I
<br />think it was probably like a three-step process where the Commission would, just to take single member
<br />districts, they vote we’re going to have a single member district. Then I come in with a draft of what it’s
<br />going to look like in the actual language changes in the Charter, and the Commission votes on that and
<br />approves that. And then finally, we decide how it’s going to appear on the ballot, and they vote on that.
<br />But they’re not going to -, I think part of the agreement was that they’re not going to, you know, try to
<br />re-argue everything at each point, you know. Once you’ve made the basic decision, then you are going
<br />to move ahead and vote on the language, and then you are just -, it’s just a technical question of how it’s
<br />going to be stated on the ballot. What’s the clearest and fairest way to do that.
<br />L’ORANGE: Yeah, we didn’t word-smith the ballot stuff. Our function was sort of do we understand
<br />what he’s saying? Is this expressing what we wanted to do? You know, I think that was more a
<br />reflection, I mean, we had confidence that Chris would do a good job with the ballot language in making
<br />it legal. Is it understandable was sort of our function.
<br />HIGASHI: One last question, Chris. Do you recall about how many hours was required of your
<br />services?
<br />YUEN: Well, I read in the paper that my bill was $34,000, which would work out, I think I was
<br />probably charging -.
<br />BESS: Eighty-five.
<br />YUEN: A hundred, hundred and ten or something, so about 300, and I was surprised to read that. But I
<br />attended all the meetings, and we had a lot of meetings. So that’s about what it was, yeah.
<br />HIGASHI: Okay.
<br />RAY: Marni.
<br />HERKES: I did a little checking with Sherwood Greenwell, a couple of items, and I’m fascinated by the
<br />Board of Supervisors and why that changed to a strong mayoral and Council, and I have, from
<br />Sherwood’s standpoint, he thinks it was a very strong Councilperson that they wanted to kind of
<br />disenfranchise and get back to a strong mayor because the Mayor would represent the complete Island.
<br />In talking, people talking to me, they seem very interested in having a Managing Director, and it could
<br />be the global economy that’s driving this. I’m not interested in doing anything as a reaction to any one
<br />person, because my feeling is that the strong people in the Council will drive the Council; the strong
<br />Mayor will drive the Mayor. I think the Council was strong when Yamashiro was there; I think the
<br />Mayor is strong when he’s there because he’s a strong leader. But I don’t think that now in the global
<br />economy, I think the Managing Director -, I’m personally leaning towards a Managing Director, but I
<br />was fascinated by the fact that you didn’t have much discussion on that. And I don’t know if that’s
<br />because people didn’t bring it to you or that your Commission wasn’t really interested in it.
<br />BETHEA: We discussed it early on.
<br />YUEN: Yeah, I -, in fact, I was -, one of the things I didn’t remember was I wrote some material on it
<br />for the Commission. I think that there were -, I think Sherwood was interested in it, and I think -, am I
<br />wrong that you were basically -.
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