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• <br />HIGASHI: Would you support a Special Election to put this question before <br />the voters before the next election, or would you be satisfied that it be settled in the <br />next election and implemented four years henceforth? <br />TYLER: At this time I do not support a Special Election, and I understand <br />the reasons for considering one, because the person who would be elected Mayor <br />would only serve, possibly, four years, should the Charter Amendment pass, however, I <br />think - <br />HIGASHI: <br />implement it. <br />TYLER: Yes, of course it would take four years unless, of course, you put <br />some provision in there that if it passed, they'd have to resign, but I can't imagine that <br />somebody would run under those circumstances, but hope springs eternal. I think my <br />main reason is the cost, and I think you heard very clearly from personnel from the <br />Elections Office, including our Clerk and others, that it's almost an impossibility to do <br />this in a timely fashion, based on the kinds of deadlines that the State imposes on the <br />County. So, I think, for those reasons, if it came before the Council, I would not vote to <br />give you folks the funding. I know what your counsel has said, but I believe that your <br />charge does not preempt the Council's authority. Nevertheless, you have your <br />counsel. <br />The implementation would take four years before we could <br />RAY: Roland, are you finished? Let's just go on around the room. <br />Daryl? No? Kevin. <br />BALOG: Two questions. The .first one is just to follow up with Roland's. <br />You said that the County didn't have the money to pay for a Special Election, but earlier <br />you said that if you switch to a management, CEO type of Executive Branch, you'd <br />save possibly three to four million, so if you're looking at saving three to four million vs. <br />spending a quarter of a million, I mean, what's it worth to people who believe in that <br />concept? I mean, if I'm a person looking at money, which you guys do now, wouldn't it <br />be worth your while to look at saving three to four million if that's what you really <br />believe in? <br />RAY: That's three or four million per year times four. <br />BALOG: Yes. <br />TYLER: I don't believe I said three or four million. I said two or three, or <br />something like that. I don't know. I said some millions of dollars. <br />BALOG: Well, I'm a million off, but let's say two and a half times four is <br />11 <br />