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• • RAY: Hiring a Managing Director. BALOG: A Managing Director. I keep thinking of it over and over again. We're trying to say that we want to be more efficient, more efficient so if you play all of this out now, we have our Council elected every two years. You get six new Council people in in two years and they terminate Managing Director that was just hired two years ago that's going to have the powers, maybe, to authorize bonds or whatever, 44 times mentioned in the Charter, whatever it is, appoint people or whatever - whatever those duties are that we're going to try to incorporate or however we do it. I would much rather favor what the Chairman suggested and try and see if we could have our Managing Director now be a Financial Officer of the County, the Chief Financial Officer, and be efficient from that standpoint because I view a Council as more of a legislative body than a body that should be getting six votes or whatever amount of votes you are going to come up with, to get a Managing Director and then instructing that person how to run each department. I'd rather see a little more cut and go more with somebody who would try and run the County more efficiently. RAY: In terms of one point you brought up, as far as the potential for turnover, two year terms and whatever. I think that's pretty effectively dealt with in most models that I'm aware of. In other words, you issue a contract with somebody, there has to be just cause so I don't think you have that much of a threat effectively, of a new Council coming in and firing somebody just willy-nilly or whatever, but you did bring up the two year term and that's a real dynamic under the present Charter. The two year that the Council has and the four year terms of the Mayor, that's something that certainly is a huge advantage to the Mayor's Office. Mr. Santangelo. Oh, Ms. Irvine, first. IRVINE: You folks have been touching on this two year term vs. four year. I feel if we were to go with a professional manager that if we had a Mayor or a head of the County Council, so to speak, who would be in the position of Mayor, that that Chairman of the County Council really should serve for more than two years and should be elected island -wide. I know Roland Higashi had talked about going back to a six, with three people elected at -large and I really feel that if somebody's going to represent our island, they should be elected island -wide rather than be elected from one Council District. That is the model I have from Lexington, Kentucky. They do elect part of their Council from each district for two years and then they elect, I think, three people at -large for four year terms. It would make the dynamics of the County Council a little different but it might be a thought. RAY: That's something that we need to keep in mind and I don't want to get too far off on that tangent right now because that's a whole other discussion we'll be taking up. But yes, that's a good thing to keep in mind is how all that would work in relation to the City Manager. John. 19