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• RAY: Then you could run for an additional 2 four-year terms? HIGASHI: It's a different office. Right now, if you live in Hilo and you move to Hamakua, you .could probably run for office again. HERKES: Keep moving around the island, you could - HIGASHI: I think so. I mean, your title is Councilman, Hamakua. Anyway, that's some legal question. YUEN: No, it's not. IRVINE: You don't think so, Chris? YUEN: No, 1 don't think so because the term limits is really directed at the individual. In the terms of the Council members, every time you are serving a new term, but I think they're looking at you as a Council member. In the present Charter, I would have to say it's a gray area that was passed in '96. Whatever we do, it's best to spell it out. And so, I understand what you're saying and that can be spelled out, exactly what you're saying. Your proposal would really enable somebody to serve 16 years, as long as they went district to at -large, and I understand that, and that could be spelled out plainly, if that's the sense of all the Commission members. RAY: Daryl, did you have something to say? KUROZAWA: I just had a question. Can you talk a little about the two -four -two thing, or do I want to know? RAY: That was a letter, and I don't know that I have it. KUROZAWA: No, I have it all here. I just need a summary. I have all the correspondence. IRVINE: In a two -four -two proposal, a Council person will be elected to a first term of two years. In his second bid for office, he runs for a four-year term, and then go back to two. MARTIN: What was the reasoning behind that? He wrote down some reasoning behind it. IRVINE: The four-year term will convey the message that the constituents are satisfied with the first two-year term performance, thereby granting him a longer term. When the four years are up, the candidate may run for another two-year term, if elected, still conclude his term of office within the eight maximum as practiced today. 19