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with your conscience. There's no simple answer to that that, you know, public input is -, comes
<br />in when they vote on it, yes or no, I mean, that's the final, you know, final say. You can't tell
<br />from what comes in public hearings -, really a read of what's, you know, what's out there. You
<br />may have ten -, you've been on the Council, ten people scream against it, and you have all kinds
<br />of other people that, you know, that don't.
<br />SANTANGELO: I think that's why I asked that question, Pete, because on a Council and in
<br />politics, you know, the hardest thing for me to learn, that was perception was the reality. But I
<br />felt like here on the Commission, we're not elected, and so where's our accountability? And I
<br />keep looking at myself being accountable to working with this group to create good government.
<br />And this is a Charter that's been around for a while, so I, you know, I don't see how it needs a
<br />huge bunch of -. You know, case in point, you got a Fire Commission. I struggle with what is a
<br />Fire -? Because this was brought up when John and I were on the Council, and it's like how does
<br />that translate or relate to how a Police Commission works, where you're dealing with -. I mean
<br />firemen don't arrest people and deal, you know -, so it's just getting that information. But that
<br />was my main thing is -.
<br />So it sounds like you guys got your information, you held each other accountable to get your
<br />background and be informed, and then you had your discussion. When it came to putting
<br />something on the ballot, did you go for pretty much a majority vote, I mean a major majority, or
<br />was there something that was like -? How often did it come real close?
<br />• L'ORANGE: Simple. Single member district was 6-5, I think.
<br />YUEN: No, no. no.
<br />BETHEA: Seven -four.
<br />L'ORANGE: Seven -four? Seven -four, yeah.
<br />YUEN: Seven -four, yeah. Well, you have to have, to put something on the ballot,
<br />you need a majority of the 11; you need six votes. If six people vote for it, it goes on the ballot.
<br />That's -.
<br />HERKES: Simple arithmetic.
<br />YUEN: Yeah.
<br />SANTANGELO: But it wasn't like a jury thing where you tried to get everybody to buy into
<br />this thing?
<br />YUEN: I think maybe there was some attempt to arrive at consensus. I think
<br />whenever you're sitting in a group like this, and where there's a degree -, and I think the people
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