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that as I could.
<br />Tie one thing back to what Chris said, this whole thing about City Manager, get it out of the way
<br />quick, one way or the other. You may really decide, after doing some reading about it, it's
<br />something you want to do and, if so, then, you know, . really get at it. But I wouldn't waste a lot
<br />of time on something you know, isn't going to go anywhere. It doesn't mean you don't hear from
<br />the public and what their recommendations are, and it doesn't mean that they can't change your
<br />mind, but I think you have to move through those kinds of things. And if you decide that you
<br />want to stay with the basic form of government that we have now, a Council and a Mayor, a
<br />strong Mayor or no, veto or no. And then, you know, you go down and get into the budget
<br />questions and the length of terms that Council people should have, etcetera, etcetera, how do you
<br />think they should balance out, that's what I think.
<br />And then we did, I had forgotten that, after we got some basic stuff out of the way, we tried to,
<br />for want of any other way, we tried to go through the Charter line by line and subject by subject.
<br />One of the things that I would strongly recommend, and I have it back in my mind now, is I got
<br />the Charter and I must have read it three or four times, then I'd start over, and I would start
<br />making notes to be sure that I could understand what I didn't understand, and then to try to fill in
<br />the gaps. So it would be really be helpful, I think, if you went through and really read the
<br />Charter, then read it again and read it again and, you know, then you get down to the things that
<br />you're pretty sure you don't know.
<br />• YUEN: You had asked -, I wanted to get back to your question on public input,
<br />and you know, I think it's important to have hearings in the different parts of the Island so that
<br />people feel welcome to come and say things. We had a lot of press coverage, and I don't see
<br />anybody here from the press. I thought that most of our meetings had press. I don't know, I
<br />think that there's -, there are assigning, the local paper I think is assigning fewer reporters to
<br />meetings than they used to. And then part of it was that we had a sexy issue, we had this political
<br />issue that was obviously going to be dealt with on the single member districts, but there was
<br />quite -, they pretty regularly, I thought they came to virtually all the meetings, even the ones that
<br />dealt with things that weren't very controversial, and that, you know, it helps keep people in the
<br />loop.
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<br />RAY: Yeah, Jason Armstrong is obsessed with the special election, and when I
<br />told him literally that we weren't going to be discussing it today, he said. well, let me know when
<br />you get back to that.
<br />BETHEA: With what?
<br />RAY: The idea of a special election. And I've tried to explain to him that, you
<br />know, this is just something that we talked about as a what if type scenario we might consider but
<br />anyway -.
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