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<br />HERKES: No, I know that, yeah.
<br />YUEN: I don't think that it was ever voted on because I think it was certainly
<br />discussed and it was discussed early, and there was -, certainly everybody wanted to get informed
<br />about it, and after hearing about it, I don't think that -, I think it was plain that, you know, it
<br />wasn't going to get passed by the Commission, so it went -.
<br />I'd just like to make one comment, from a legal point of view, and that is that you have to be
<br />aware that State law must have somewhere between 50 and 100 references to what the Mayor
<br />does in the county, and things like -.
<br />HERKES: That probably, did it, Chris.
<br />YUEN: Things like declaring a public emergency; the Mayor has the power to do
<br />that. Rules and regulations, when the Planning Department makes, for example, the shoreline
<br />setback being 40 -feet is a matter of a rule of the -, either the Planning Department or the Planning
<br />Commission, as I recall. The State law says the Mayor signs all those rules and regulations or can
<br />refuse to sign all those rules and regulations.
<br />I think that a managing -, I think the County has the power to not have a Mayor and have a
<br />County Manager, but I think that if the County does go that route, then the County Manager must
<br />be invested with all the powers that the Mayor gives -, is given under State law, and somebody -,
<br />if this is seriously looked at, then somebody's got to try to list these things down. You'll see that
<br />there are quite a few powers that are delegated to the Mayor that are not -, you're not going to be
<br />able to rewrite those powers and -, for the most part, at least, and say the Council -, well, no, we
<br />don't want the managing -, County Manager to have those powers, we want to give the Council
<br />those powers. That's -, those -, that's an issue that's going to have to be looked at very carefully.
<br />When they wrote all these State laws, they kind of assumed that you were going to have a Mayor.
<br />The old, you go back 30 years under the State laws, would say County Chair, Chairman, because
<br />that's the way they had it.
<br />BERKES: Yeah.
<br />YUEN: Back 30 years ago.
<br />RAY: Marni, any other questions?
<br />HERKES: That's it.
<br />RAY: Mr. Martin?
<br />MARTIN: , I just had one question actually, maybe two, I'm not sure. But you made
<br />mention of going along and voting on items as they came up. You'd discuss it, you'd vote on it,
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