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chance to vote on that. All right, now I'd like to go to some of the specific items. I would say I'm not in favor of the at -large, as I stated last time. The Managing Director. I don't know that it's stated but I would think he should have the same professional qualifications as a County Manager would have, though I would prefer that there be, in fact, a County Manager. On Article V, Section 5-1.2, I would just suggest a small change of wording. It says 'the mayor may serve for more than two terms but shall not serve more than two consecutive full terms'. I'd suggest changing that 'may serve for more than two terms, but shall not be elected to more than two consecutive terms'. Conceivably one day, you might get someone unscrupulous who might resign just before the end of the term, as it's worded now, and run again for re-election. That would not be in the sense of this. So if we just said `shall not be elected to more than two consecutive full terms', I think that would take care of that. 13-3, Appointments. I want to say, again, proper professional degrees are needed. As written, I think maybe, the terms there such as `proper investigation ' and 'related fields' are so ambiguous that they don't mean anything. They're too broad and I think maybe one wants to say a little more clearly what constitutes `proper investigation' and `related fields'. That's done somewhat for the Planning Director but I'm a little taken aback by the term 'geography' as a qualification. It might be nice if they can tell you where the Holy Roman Empire used to be in a map of the world, and the Ottoman Empire, but it's not clear to me what that has to do with running a Planning Office. An appointment in Hilo would probably be able to tell us.that the Grand Canyon is not what he reaches back and finds, but I don't see that as relevant, again, to running the Planning Department. RAY: Actually, the field of geography is quite broad. I studied Coastal Geography when I was in college, which was actually directly applicable to planning issues in this County. BLANN: might say — Okay, it's not what comes to my mind by 'geography'. Geology, I HERKES: Mr. Ray, could I ask a question? BLANN: Please. HERKES: I went through about 15 different Charters, or documents, from different entities on the mainland and across this island, and I looked for language for Managing Directors, for qualifications. I didn't find a lot of language that pleased me, or that I felt comfortable with. Do you have any specific language that you could propose? I mean, like five years experience, and those kinds of broad things, are fine, but they 8