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<br />HERKES: But, not well addressed.
<br />RAY: Any more discussion on the qualification of department heads?
<br />Holdover.
<br />BESS: We addressed that.
<br />MARTIN: I thought we did. I thought there was something that was printed up that addressed it, and we, kind of, voted on it.
<br />IRVINE: We did.
<br />MARTIN: Just a thought. I could be wrong.
<br />RAY: No, we did. On Commissions.
<br />Financial Procedures. We have got Mr. Takahashi coming in Wednesday so, hopefully, we can get him to focus in on some
<br />stuff, and I think, he’s going to be addressing, as well, this whole idea of financial auditing, and so if we can read the stuff
<br />from the Auditor’s Office, and follow up that discussion with him, we should be able to move that further along.
<br />Then, the Impeachment procedure, and Initiative and Referendum. We do have written information from our attorney.
<br />Probably everybody hasn’t had a chance to read and digest that. Any discussion at this point?
<br />HIGASHI: On impeachment, what does he recommend? I think the Impeachment section, I’d like to see that beefed up. I
<br />mean, it was so easy to file for an impeachment, and cost everybody so much money to get out of it. Good thing, technically,
<br />they were wrong this time. They needed a 100 people from that specific area, or district, but I would, maybe, if we keep
<br />impeachment in, make it the same as recall, in terms of 25% of the voters from that district.
<br />RAY: I think we’d better wait until we have Chris here.
<br />HIGASHI: But, I’d like to see impeachment beefed up a bit more.
<br />IRVINE: I did type up what the different counties - the number of legal signers for impeachment. If it’s of interest to others, I
<br />suppose I could share these.
<br />RAY: Yes, would you?
<br />IRVINE: Yes. The only thing I want to say is when I type something up, I don’t want to guarantee I’m a 100% right because
<br />you get to looking at all these different County Charters and you may have hit the wrong one, and put it under the wrong
<br />column. But, I’ll share this stuff.
<br />RAY: Okay. Charter Housekeeping: Language; Organization; Publication Notification.
<br />IRVINE: Concerning language, the Riverside County Charter, and this we’d have to ask our attorney, I’m sure, they say in
<br />here, the correction of typographical or clerical errors shall not constitute the making of an alteration within the meaning of
<br />the foregoing sentence. Is that not possible? And they’re talking about ordinances, and not their Charter. And I suppose,
<br />maybe, that we have to have every "i" dotted and "t" crossed.
<br />HERKES: Let’s ask for it.
<br />MARTIN: Let’s ask Steve.
<br />BESS: No, let’s ask Chris.
<br />IRVINE: Okay. It’s probably a matter of opinion, and I’d hate to see people be able to take the Charter and change the
<br />meaning, saying it was a correction of a typographical error, but I did see this here, which seemed like it might help us.
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