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• HERKES: Continuity, I think, is what he said. <br />RAY: Well, wait a second. Mike, are you going to comment on that? <br />BEN: No, I wasn't aware of what was being said about the data processing. I'll <br />just leave it at that. <br />RAY: Marni. <br />HERKES: I think continuity was what he said, that continuity would lend stability to <br />the position and would be able to give it a stature that a political appointee may not have. <br />IRVINE: <br />HERKES: <br />All I'm saying is that -. <br />I think that was the point that Mr. Ben made. <br />IRVINE: That we just did the opposite in the last election with the Data Processing. <br />We went from just having a civil servant to having an appointed person and my -, I just had heard <br />that that was why they wanted that, was that this person would, therefore, have more authority or <br />stature with the other department heads. <br />• RAY: I think that was only part of the justification, but that was -, that does ring <br />a bell as being mentioned anyway. Any other comments or questions for Mr. Ben? What I -. <br />• <br />YOSHIYAMA: Yes, I have a -. <br />RAY: Gary. <br />YOSHIYAMA: Back to the Commission. Mike do you or the Commissioners have any <br />comment on the composition of the Commission and the number of Commissioners? <br />BEN: With respect to my Civil Service Commission? <br />YOSHIYAMA: Civil Service Commission. <br />BEN: We operate with five right now. <br />YOSHIYAMA: Yeah. <br />BEN: We've never explored that, but I've been comfortable with five. It hasn't <br />really created a problem. What has created a problem is when vacancies occur and, by some odd <br />reason, I get -, I have -, my vacancies occur two, two, one. In other words, two Commissioners <br />will leave one year, another two another year, and then one will leave at, you know -, so when I <br />31 <br />