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Page 18 of 23 am which I’m not sure that he does because I’m not maybe that well know. MARTIN: Okay, well getting back to my point then. In the manner in which you’re speaking ,the same thing could held true with the situation of the Council Member directly appointed. I tend to agree with what Marni was saying in that we took the opportunity to apply. I don’t believe anybody twisted anybody’s arms to appoint us. We just put the applications in and they came back and said would you be interested. I put a general one in. I said ‘hey, whatever you need help in, I’m willing to participate in,’ in ongoing county situations whether it be this Commission or any Commission at the time and it happened to be this one. So the opportunitites are there and the reason I’m saying that is I see a possibility to go to the individual Member of the district per se, Council Member appointing but there may be some problems there too and I think that the way that it’s sitting right now in that anybody has the opportunity to apply, is working. Okay. It’s not working as well as we want because we don’t have possibly the volunteers that we need. And I encourage you to apply. No problem there. Second point that I’m going to bring up. You made mention early on in that whatever we feel should be addressed in this book and possibly not just added into it, we should put it on the ballot and put it before the people so we have some discussion. I happen to agree with you except for the fact that we’d be putting the cart before the mule and that’s what we’re going through these meetings for right now and will go through them again before we do put it on there. We’d hate to put something on and waste everybody’s time and not have exactly what the people want. So I think more interjection with the communities before we put it on is important, yes? BOCHE: No, I agree. I wasn’t saying that you shouldn’t go through your whole process and have a couple of rounds of meetings but when you get down to are we going to have three or four amendments or are we going to have ten. It may come to that, or even fifteen, heaven forbid. Don’t make it so - give a broader choice of possible changes rather than restrict it. I didn’t mean to minimize your work because I’m sure it will be really thorough. RAY: All right. Any other comments? Daryl. KUROZAWA: I had a question about when you talked about the Fire Department. BOCHE: Yes. KUROZAWA: There was a recommendation for having a Fire Commission and also a comment about the hazardous waste. Was the issue - is it two separate issues for you or was it that the Commission can oversee the hazardous waste issues? BOCHE: They’re really two separate issues. I don’t know the best way to oversee the Fire Department. I don’t know how we make the Fire Department conform to what is standard practice for the health and safety of our community. People in the Fire Department who know what the law is and what standard practices are, don’t know how to get their bosses - This one particular person was offered a job to implement essentially the operating program that he designed and wrote up and he refused because he said his bosses wouldn’t allow him to do the right thing. So he said why should I do this? Why should I beat my head against the wall? What’s the point? And so we had a situation, in his view, where the County - basic maintenance on vehicles. If the brakes aren’t fixed and the County fire truck runs into the file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 7-7-99.html7/1/2011