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<br />regulations, when the Planning Department makes, for example, the shoreline setback being 40 feet is a
<br />matter of a rule of the -, either the Planning Department or the Planning Commission, as I recall. The
<br />State law says the Mayor signs all those rules and regulations or can refuse to sign all those rules and
<br />regulations.
<br />I think that a managing -, I think the County has the power to not have a Mayor and have a County
<br />Manager, but I think that if the County does go that route, then the County Manager must be invested
<br />with all the powers that the Mayor gives -, is given under State law, and somebody -, if this is seriously
<br />looked at, then somebody’s got to try to list these things down. You’ll see that there are quite a few
<br />powers that are delegated to the Mayor that are not -, you’re not going to be able to rewrite those powers
<br />and -, for the most part, at least, and say the Council -, well, no, we don’t want the managing -, County
<br />Manager to have those powers, we want to give the Council those powers. That’s -, those -, that’s an
<br />issue that’s going to have to be looked at very carefully. When they wrote all these State laws, they kind
<br />of assumed that you were going to have a Mayor. The old, you go back 30 years under the State laws,
<br />would say County Chair, Chairman, because that’s the way they had it.
<br />HERKES: Yeah.
<br />YUEN: Back 30 years ago.
<br />RAY: Marni, any other questions?
<br />HERKES: That’s it.
<br />RAY: Mr. Martin?
<br />MARTIN: I just had one question actually, maybe two, I’m not sure. But you made mention of going
<br />along and voting on items as they came up. You’d discuss it, you’d vote on it, then it would be tabled
<br />until you come to the point where it’s going to be written down, possibly put in Charter form, and then,
<br />once again, discussed and voted on, I guess a second time, to say, yeah, that’s what we wanted to do.
<br />That’s what we was thinking about. Let’s go with it. But then you also made mention that if you had
<br />public input, you possibly would change your mind. Did that ever happen where you guys went about
<br />doing your business, putting it down, taking a vote on it, then going out to the public, gathering
<br />information, having some sentiment on possibly that particular subject, and changing your mind?
<br />L’ORANGE: Yeah, we took public input before there were any votes.
<br />MARTIN: Okay.
<br />YUEN: Yeah, they -.
<br />MARTIN: I was misunderstood then; I thought that -.
<br />YUEN: Yeah, the Commission went around the Island before it ever voted on anything.
<br />The other thing, I think that -, say, one set of things would be on the action agenda for a particular
<br />meeting so, you know, once that was dealt with, you move on. And, you know, people can always -. If
<br />somebody comes and they, you know, make the effort to come to your hearing and they want to talk
<br />about something that you’ve already dealt with, well, you know -.
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