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RAY: Let me just interject. We alluded to the Lexington model, and the way the Lexington model works is the top at -large vote getter is the Council Chair, and the Mayor is elected separately, and he attended the Council meetings. HERKES: RAY: I wasn't sure about that, but we don't have to follow it all the way through. No. HERKES: As long as the top vote getter chairs the Council and he's the ceremonial Mayor. Who needs a Mayor? HIGASHI: With the strong mayor system, we need the Mayor. RAY: That's one view. Sue. IRVINE: I just feel that we can work this out without radically changing to a Council Manager form of government, by possibly beefing up the qualifications for our Managing Director. I was very down on Council Manager until this. Riverside, California has a very simple Charter, and they really do seem to be happy with their Council Manager, but I don't think we're ready for it here yet. RAY: And there again, going back to the Lexington model. They did switch back to a strong mayor form of government. HERKES: Oh, I know. RAY: But, it's interesting, in the transition, their Managing Director now does serve more as the City Manager type, so it seems like that's the direction we'd like to head in, and if there's a way we could encourage the Managing Director to be more of a City Manager type, and to have more professional credentials, and have more authority, but ultimately, I think, that is going to be up to the Mayor, so there's no way around that unless we totally switch forms of govemment. So, it sounds like, out of ten of us right now, there's only one person speaking to pursue the Council Manager form of government. HIGASHI: So why don't we vote on the question? HERKES: We don't have to vote on it. HIGASHI: We have a motion. SANTANGELO: We have a motion. Cali for the question. The motion was that we drop pursuing City Manager. 5