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minutes 05-31-00Page 13 of 54 RAY: Discussion. Page 17. IRVINE: The same thing I just said. I think you’ll find that you didn’t make a motion. SANTANGELO: That’s correct. That should be Santangelo, not Ray. Thank you. RAY: Other corrections, comments? All in favor? COMMISSIONERS: Aye. RAY: Financial Status Report. As of 4/30, we show a balance of $68,376.82. Communications in your packets today. Communications from Councilman Elarinoff; Milton Pavao with the Department of Water Supply; Harry Takahashi, Director of Finance; and Rudy Legaspi with the Mayor’s Office. Unfinished Business. Transition Language, Boards and Commission Membership and Council Districts. Chris, you want to go through this and summarize it, where we are. You should have received communications from Mr. Yuen in regard to his read on options. SANTANGELO: Mr. Chairman? RAY: Yes. SANTANGELO: Point of personal privilege. With the communications in dealing with Takahashi, I just had a question and this may not be the place to bring it up but I would try. If there’s some things that we’ve considered such as the City Manager, things like that, Mr. Yuen, in the past, has the Commission made, like, some sort of a document that was passed on to the next Commission that gives them kind of a heads up on what may have been considered so that they could quickly get to that or anything like that? Have we ever done anything like that? Is that being considered? RAY: Yes. What we received was full sets of minutes and, theoretically, they were somewhat organized, but they really weren’t. So we are going to try to leave as clear a record, and also I think it’s a good point you brought up that in terms of valid information, legal opinions, arguments, that we think would be helpful and worthwhile to the County Council or whoever might be dealing with some of these policy issues, we’re going to try to get that information out so that the Council, or whoever, has that as a resource in regard to dealing with some of these issues that may come up in the future. So yes, we are going to make every effort to do that. SANTANGELO: Thank you. RAY: Okay, Chris. YUEN: This is an issue that we left open at the end of the last meeting and some of the Commission members wanted to actually see how much of a conflict there was. We proposed that there would be a requirement that some Commissions change from having a more general geographic requirement to having one member from each Council district. At the present time, some of these Commissions – Well, let’s just talk about Water and Salary. They each have, at present, two members who are in the same Council district. I think it’s both in Council district 6. And then the question comes up what do we do as far as the taking of effect of this amendment. I think we should, rather than just leave it an open question that somebody has to worry about later, spell out what we want to do. The two basic alternatives are: Alternative (1) is to allow the sitting members to serve out their full terms and when the Mayor appoints new members, the Mayor would have to appoint a member from a district that’s not represented on the Commission. And I’ve written language that would do that. Alternative (2) would be to disqualify one of those members of the Commissions – one of we’ll call the duplicate members, or the overlapping members, or the over-represented members. And if you want to disqualify the member, then you have to come up with some method of deciding who would be disqualified. There’s only, as I said, on these two Commissions that we’re going to the single member districts, there’s only one pair of overlapping members on each of those two Commissions. Looking ahead, we’re talking about the Liquor Commission. There’s no duplicates on the Liquor Commission, so if we went to nine single members on the Liquor Commission, the Mayor could simply nominate two people from the districts that are not currently represented. So those are really the alternatives – the decision that has to be made on the alternatives. file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 05-31-00.html7/1/2011