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Page 6 of 12 <br />appoint the person who’s going to manage the county vs. the elected public, a majority of everyone who <br />votes, elect your Managing or your Executive person. <br />LAWSON: Yes. <br />BALOG: So you’re saying that’s better to have - <br />LAWSON: Yes. I would be more than comfortable with five out of nine people. <br />BALOG: Five people have somebody. <br />LAWSON: Yes, because that goes along with our republican form of <br />government. Remember - <br />BALOG: Well, you’re talking nonpartisan too. <br />LAWSON: Yes, that’s right. The people elect the Council people. <br />BALOG: So who elects the Mayor? If the people only elect the Council, who elects the Mayor? <br />LAWSON: The Council is responsible for hiring the Mayor much as in any corporation. Remember this <br />is a municipal corporation form of government. If you, any Board, any governing Council appoint their <br />executive. They hire them. They also fire them. They also hold them accountable. <br />BALOG: Okay. No, that’s just what I want to - just a question. <br />LAWSON: Thank you. <br />RAY: Mr. Santangelo. <br />SANTANGELO: <br />Well, I was just going to address a point of what I think Kevin’s on the right track but I’m a little <br />uncomfortable in a venue such as this in which we start to debate the presenter because we’re here to <br />hear their opinions and we can get overzealous and put them on the spot and I just wanted to bring that <br />up. <br />RAY: Any other questions? One thing you brought up and I can’t speak to this definitively and we’ll <br />need to do some more legal research on this in regard to when things can and do take effect in regard to <br />the elections but I know in the b election when we voted in the four two-year terms, much to the surprise <br />and dismay of the County Council, it was voted in there. When we looked at that, we find that that <br />actually did take effect the day it was voted in and everybody had thought it would take affect two years <br />later but that was not the case so I’m not so sure, as bizarre as it may sound, that if you voted to go with <br />a City Manager Director in spite of the fact that you’d have folks running for Mayor. I think that it <br />would probably be eliminated, as strange as that sounds or that could be legally possible so I’m not sure <br />of that but I think that you do have case law supporting people running for offices that can and have <br />been eliminated in elections. But anyway, we’ll certainly be looking into all of that. <br />Comment? <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 6-23-99.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />