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<br />RECONVENED The meeting reconvened at 10:03 a.m.
<br />RAY: I’d like to call the meeting back to order. Under Unfinished Business, a couple of items listed here in regard to the vote
<br />we took on the 6-3 Council terms, and some stuff we need to discuss further, as far as the mechanics of that; how it would
<br />work. The term limits is one, and then how non-partisan voting would work. In other words, if the non-partisan gets voted in,
<br />then for instance, how do the Council persons at-large get elected under the non-partisan scenario. Chris, you want to go over
<br />this, and bring up, if there’s anything else. As part of that overall suggested Amendment, I assume these would be lumped
<br />together. In other words, if we’re recommending 6-3, how it would work, so we need to give Chris some direction on that.
<br />Sue.
<br />IRVINE: Did you just say that 6-3 and non-partisanship would be lumped together?
<br />YUEN: Is Roland coming back? Because he made the motion to do that. Why don’t we wait till Roland comes back on that.
<br />RAY: Okay.
<br />MARTIN: As I was mentioning to the Chair outside, if I may.
<br />RAY: Sure.
<br />MARTIN: Because he’s not back, but it’s on the non-partisan. I was talking to our counsel from the stairs the other day, and
<br />two ideas came up to me regarding the non-partisan. If a person runs unopposed, they should only run in the Primary, and
<br />they be bound over as elected, and wouldn’t have to run in the General, therefore saving money on the printing of the next
<br />ballot. Also, if two people run, the same thing.
<br />RAY: Wasn’t it last time that they didn’t even go on the ballot. Don’t you remember that? Because Dominic was all upset
<br />because he didn’t even get on the ballot because he ran unopposed.
<br />YUEN: Yes, if you’re unopposed, you don’t go on the second ballot.
<br />MARTIN: Right. If you run only two people. You and I run, and you beat me, you should, right there, be bound over as
<br />elected. Why should you run again and have the same result again? And cost factor is what I’m looking at, to the County.
<br />YUEN: You’re elected outright. And this was your motion on the non-partisan, and this is the way we wrote it up that it
<br />would work, exactly like that.
<br />MARTIN: Okay. As long as it’s written because you know how our public works it sometimes.
<br />YUEN: Actually, it’s guaranteed if you only have two, one would be elected outright in the first election, for simplicity’s
<br />sake, we’ll call the Primary Election because it would be held at the time of the Primary, but because blanks and spoils are
<br />not counted, with two people, somebody’s got to win. And so, that will not carry over.
<br />We started this discussion a minute ago when Roland was out, and I wanted you to come back. I think there’s two details left
<br />on the 6-3 that passed, that the Commission just needs to give me a little direction on so that I can finalize that item. And the
<br />two issues are: Are there term limits for the 3 at-larges, and if so, how does that work? Is it going to be four terms of two
<br />years? Two times four years? And I really wasn’t sure from reading the minutes how the Commission wanted to go on that.
<br />RAY: Another thing in regard to term limits that we need to explore is do we want to make any exception on the eight-year
<br />term limit to accommodate the Council persons at-large. In other words, if you’ve served 3 two-year terms, could you run
<br />Council at-large and, in essence, serve - because that’s another -
<br />HIGASHI: Another office.
<br />IRVINE: John, it would seem to me that it’s pretty obviously a different office
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