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L'ORANGE: Needed more information.
<br />YUEN: On -, and I think they were -, weren't they all invited to -.
<br />BETHEA: I think we took them -.
<br />YUEN: Invited to -.
<br />BETHEA: Didn't we take them in groups or -?
<br />YUEN: Yeah.
<br />BETHEA: Have the finance people come.
<br />RAY: Okay, well, let me give you a example, okay. We've already requested,
<br />you know, from the departments and boards and commissions, right, that they submit in writing,
<br />you know, what they've got on their minds, and we're starting to schedule meetings. I've got a
<br />letter from the Fire Department saying, basically, no comment. Okay, well, I know that we're
<br />going to get comment from the general public in regard to a Fire Commission or, you know, some
<br />things about the Fire Department or whatever so, you know, that's an example of where, you
<br />know, initially the Fire Department, you know, might not have anything to say, right, and then
<br />we, you know, say we have a huge outpouring of folks that, you know, are -, suggest a Fire
<br />Commission just like the Police Commission or, you know, and that commission, just like the
<br />Police Commission, electing the -, I mean hiring the chief and whatever. So does that ring a bell,
<br />things like that?
<br />YUEN: I would let the department know when the item was on the agenda for
<br />discussion certainly, if they missed it in the paper or something.
<br />RAY: Yeah. Okay, well, let's go around -.
<br />BETHEA: Did we do an agenda before the meeting?
<br />YUEN: Yeah.
<br />`RAY: John, you had some questions? Mr. Santangelo?
<br />SANTANGELO: Just a couple. It's interesting when Bob brought up the dialogue over the
<br />single member. I was someone that was pretty excited about that. I think that in practice, having
<br />been a Council Member, I don't see how it works real well because of the trophy taking and the
<br />territorialism at the Council. On the other hand, I feel people are very well served having a
<br />servant that can step up in a small community and represent it, so I'm definitely in favor of the
<br />single member district, with its faults in a nonpartisan. You know, power and politics, that's
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