2000-07-12 Charter Commission Minutes

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Charter Commission - Transcript of Meeting of July 12, 2000Page 15 of 45 HERKES: I think we ought to have separate lines. IRVINE: Yes. HERKES: I think they ought to be put on ‘Should the directors of research and development and of parks and recreation be required to meet minimum qualifications. Should the title of the chief engineer’s – ‘ MARTIN: There’s three new amendments there. IRVINE: No you can’t. We have to have it in one question, right? HERKES: Why do we have to have it in one question? MARTIN: We don’t. SANTANGELO: I think we all decided at one time in the dialogue that we wanted to keep the amendments to as few as possible and we grouped – RAY: Well, let’s ask Chris that. As far as structuring this grammatically, could it be three questions all in No. 7 vs. this one question? YUEN: I don’t like this either but the problem is that we grouped together a number of related items in order to not have a lot of different questions. It could be phrased as three questions or four questions that you vote on together. It could be phrased as ‘Should the following changes be made to the Charter, colon, dash, Require – HERKES: Do you find that’s hard for voters to understand, Sue? RAY: Well, it’s not correct grammatically as it is now as far as that first comma. IRVINE: You say it’s not. No, no. RAY: No. You’ve got a comma there but it really should be a period. IRVINE: A period, yes, or maybe a semi-colon would do, but at least they need to be separated with a semi-colon if not, I think. SANTANGELO: So Marni, you were saying, like, you could do it under 7. but make those like separate paragraphs or separate lines? HERKES: Yes, it could all be number 7. I’m trying to think from a voter’s standpoint of another ballot issue – IRVINE: Could it be done more in a – Would it be three questions or ‘Should the following changes be made, bullet, bullet, bullet? HERKES: Yes. file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 07-12-00.html7/1/2011