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minutes 10-16-99Page 6 of 75 <br />GRAHAM: Right. <br />SANTANGELO: And these districts are going to change drastically, and we haven’t talked about this <br />much, but in this six single and three at-large, you’re not getting rid of single member districts. <br />GRAHAM: I understand. It’s just diluting the impact of single member districts, that’s what I’m saying. <br />And you’re increasing the island-wide impact. <br />SANTANGELO: But your opinion is very important and that’s the only reason that I entered into this <br />dialogue. I don’t want to lobby for anything specifically because we haven’t even talked about it, but <br />thank you. <br />GRAHAM: Sure. <br />RAY: Just so you know, and for the record, we have not formally taken up this discussion yet, but we <br />definitely will be, and members have expressed their interest in introducing something along those lines, <br />and that’s one of the models, the three at-large and the six single members, so I think it’s appropriate. <br />And like you say, everything is on the table today, so that’s as good a thing as any to talk about. Sue. <br />IRVINE: I guess I just wanted to say that we have had quite a few ideas along this line, and one of the <br />suggestions was to have two-person single member districts, dual member districts, rather than just one <br />person representing each district. I think the suggestion was four districts with - <br />RAY: Yes, Keola Childs came up with four districts, two members of each district, and one at-large. <br />IRVINE: I know the League of Women Voters is coming in with something to say about that later this <br />morning, too. I don’t want to destroy home rule. We’ve worked to get a little more here. I guess you feel <br />strongly that it is working. Sometimes I feel like if you just have one representative that you can talk to, <br />it disenfranchises people that just don’t get along with that individual person. The other thing that we’ve <br />been talking about, and I can’t say whether we’ve talked or whether these are letters that have come to <br />us or whatnot, but out there are all sorts of ideas about electing, say, the Planning Commission, the <br />Water Commission, the Police Commission. Transferring Police and Ethics Commissions over to the <br />Prosecutor’s Office. Turning the Police Commission into a Public Safety, which would include Fire and <br />Police. <br />RAY: And Civil Defense. <br />HERKES: And Civil Defense, and Emergency Services. <br />IRVINE: And Civil Defense and Emergency Services, which are already under Fire, I guess. We may be <br />coming up with some more Commissions and maybe we should go to electing some of these officials. <br />Maybe we should elect out County Corporation Counsel, or something like that, that would give people <br />more chances to vote and be heard, personally. <br />HERKES: Your eyes are getting wider and wider and wider. I encourage you to read the minutes. <br />RAY: Sue, are you finished? <br />IRVINE: Yes. <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 10-16-99.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />