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Charter Commission - Transcript of Meeting of July 12, 2000Page 4 of 45 don’t all expire at the same time. This way, you’ll have one that will come on and be appointed for five years and that won’t expire for five years. You’ll have one that will expire in one year but that individual will be eligible for reappointment and it will involve the same Mayor so, presumably, that person could be reappointed for another five-year term and stay on for six years. What I did was the same thing that was done when, I think, the Police Commission was changed from seven to nine. I can’t remember which Commission. And this was the strategy that was adopted. HIGASHI: Chris, is there a Statute or a section in the Charter in which you cannot succeed yourself in any commission? YUEN: Except if you’re appointed to an initial one-year term. That’s in 13-something. It should be – just a second. Yes, you can’t succeed yourself except if you’re appointed to an initial term of one year or two years, you can succeed yourself. So that’s why the person who gets the five years would not be eligible to succeed himself or herself. The person who gets the one-year would be eligible to get a second appointment of five years when the one-year ran out. RAY: So does everybody understand that? I mean the rest of it is pretty straight forward, so this is just trying to accommodate the changeover. Sue? IRVINE: Never mind. YOSHIYAMA: I move for the acceptance of the language for Charter Amendment No. 14. HIGASHI: Second. RAY: Any more discussion? All in favor? COMMISSIONERS: Aye. RAY: Opposed? Okay, No. 15, the addition of the Code of Ethics. Chris, you want – YUEN: This is the Statement of Purpose or Policy and, actually, the Commission adopted this, the Statement of Policy, and as far as I could tell from reading the minutes, we didn’t come to a decision on exactly where it would be put in the Code of Ethics. It could be its own – I did it this way. Right now you have a Section 14-1 which doesn’t have any subsection. It just has this first two sentences. I changed the title of this section from ‘Enactment’ to ‘Enactment and Policy’. I changed what was there. I put it in as (a) and I put the Statement of Policy as (b). IRVINE: I must say I don’t think we’re improving our Charter’s readability with the way we’ve got this. I’m not quite sure of what the answer is but we’re talking there about elected and appointed officers and employees, and if everybody looks in the Charter on page 32, 33, it’s Section 14-4 that talks about conduct of employees. And this enactment and then standards are over on page 32 under 14-1 and 14-2. I, kind of, wish Marni were here. This was her amendment, so to speak, I think. MARTIN: Is she expected? IRVINE: Yes. MARTIN: How’s about we defer till she gets here then? file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 07-12-00.html7/1/2011