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Page 8 of 11 <br />OLSON: Ten alternates. In other words, there would be a position on Board or Commission plus an <br />alternate for that Board or Commission. <br />MARTIN: For each position? <br />OLSON: For each position for each Board or Commission. I don’t see necessarily any increase in cost. I <br />mean, the alternate is simply going to be kept informed of what’s going and informed of meetings, and it <br />would be up to the Board person to inform the alternate if he is not going to be able to attend a Board or <br />Commission meeting. <br />IRVINE: I appreciate your input on that but for somebody to go through all the reading and whatnot that <br />we have in front of us for possibly coming to a meeting every once in a while and then not having really <br />been in on the back and forth at the meetings, I think would be very difficult to step in and make good <br />decisions. <br />OLSON: They’re going to be supplied with the minutes of the meetings and I mean, if you take on the <br />job, you take on the job. If there’s no comers, you’re not going to get an alternate, right? <br />IRVINE: Yes. <br />OLSON: I mean, it’s entirely up to the willingness of a person to volunteer their time in community <br />service to the community, to take on that responsibility in the interest of expediting the government’s <br />business. If nobody steps forward, they’re not willing to take it on. I mean you’re not forcing anyone to <br />do the job. <br />MARTIN: I have one more question, I think on the same lines as far as members in a Commission <br />and/or Charter. I believe I heard you make mention that the Mayor, under your proposal, would appoint <br />the Chair of that Commission and/or Charter? <br />OLSON: That’s correct. <br />MARTIN: Commission and/or Charter, or Board. <br />OLSON: Board or Commission, yes. <br />MARTIN: As is present, we were all appointed and amongst us, we decided who the Chair was going to <br />be. <br />OLSON: Right. <br />MARTIN: But you’d rather have the Mayor decide who the Chair’s going to be before the Commission <br />and/or Board is formalized? <br />OLSON: I think that that would be necessary in order to have it conform, I think, because basically <br />under the current system, the Mayor appoints all Boards and Commission Members. So he, at that point, <br />would be only appointing a single member to a Board or Commission. <br />MARTIN: He makes recommendations and then the Council approves or disapproves of the body in its <br />present form. <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 7-21-99.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />