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• finally, we decide how it's going to appear on the ballot, and they vote on that. But they're not going to -, I think part of the agreement was that they're not going to, you know, try to re -argue everything at each point, you know. Once you've made the basic decision, then you are going to move ahead and vote on the language, and then you are just -, it's just a technical question of how it's going to be stated on the ballot. What's the clearest and fairest way to do that. L'ORANGE: Yeah, we didn't word -smith the ballot stuff. Our function was sort of do we understand what he's saying? Is this expressing what we wanted to do? You know, I think that was more a reflection, I mean, we had confidence that Chris would do a good job with the ballot language in making it legal. Is it understandable was sort of our function. HIGASHI: One last question, Chris. Do you recall about how many hours was required of your services? YUEN: Well, I read in the paper that my bill was $34,000, which would work out, I think I was probably charging -. BESS: Eighty-five. YUEN: A hundred, hundred and ten or something, so about 300, and I was surprised to read that. But I attended all the meetings, and we had a lot of meetings. So that's about what it was, yeah. HIGASHI: Okay. RAY: Marro. HERKES: I did a little checking with Sherwood Greenwell, a couple of items, and I'm fascinated by the Board of Supervisors and why that changed to a strong mayoral and Council, and I have, from Sherwood's standpoint, he thinks it was a very strong Councilperson that they wanted to kind of disenfranchise and get back to a strong mayor because the Mayor would represent the complete Island. In talking, people talking to me, they seem very interested in having a Managing Director, and it could be the global economy that's driving this. I'm not interested in doing anything as a reaction to any one person, because my feeling is that the strong people in the Council will drive the Council; the strong Mayor will drive the Mayor. I think the Council was strong when Yamashiro was there; I think the Mayor is strong when he's there because he's a strong leader. But I don't` think that now in the global economy, I think the Managing Director -, I'm personally leaning towards a Managing Director, but I was fascinated by the fact that you didn't have much discussion on that. And I don't know if that's because people didn't bring it to you or that your Commission wasn't really interested in it. 29