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still be small enough that people wouldn't have to spend as much to run and, yet, • there'd be two people representing any given person. It would keep the Council people closer in touch with their communities, and like I said, they'd have to spend less money to run. I was wondering if people feel that the quality of the County Council has gone down since it became single member. I don't have a feel for that. HIGASHI: Let's not get into that. RAY: Let's take a short recess. 1 want Daryl and John in here on this discussion. Let's take a brief recess. RECESSED The Chairman called a recess at 10:16 a.m. RECONVENED The meeting reconvened at 10:21 a.m. RAY: Continuing our discussion, Mr. Higashi has the floor. He was discussing his reasons for putting forth - HIGASHI: What point I want to make is once we adopt a model, we're going to take it to public hearing, or go back to the public again, and then we can receive more input, and if it seems that people are opposed to it because unbalanced majority may come from one side, we can adjust it then, but 1 don't think it's an easy fix. I mean, • it's two -one unless you're going to go two -two, but I think the proposal we have before us is a reasonable one, and I think we should move on this proposal. If we face terrific public opposition, or future considerations and amendments, then we should consider that then. RAY: George. MARTIN: What I was going to say is somewhat in line with what I think John was saying earlier about not being able to approach your Council member. In some cases, you can approach your Council member and have no problem with the individual, but you can't approach the other eight because you don't have any say in their political lives, so if the idea is great between you and your Council representative, it could stop right there. So I think this particular format is great, but what was brought up by the doctor over there, I never looked at in that it could be slated to mean one side or the other would be the vote populace, so I think the vote following the senatorial situation makes sense. Of course, Roland, let's correct the problems if, in fact, they do come up, but why not put into writing so that the people look at it and say, yes, they do have the right thoughts in mind. Let's put it in place before we do go to the public meetings, if we have the ability to do it. RAY: Marni. HERKES: Is the fact that people don't vote, have the opportunity to, but don't 11