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., • see, if we're going to change the numbers, is the requirement of getting an Initiative on the ballot from 20% down to a level of two or three percent. I think that's more reasonable and feasible. What danger is there to let the people vote on whether they think something is a good idea or not? HERKES: May I ask another question? BLANN: Please. HERKES: On impeachment, do you favor island -wide impeachment for single district members, or do you favor single district voters only impeaching. I mean, I could reach into somebody else's district and impeach their Councilman. BLANN: Right now, I think that's exactly what I'd like to see. HERKES: So you favor island -wide for single districts. Okay. BLANN: There was 5-6.3, Board of Appeals and my recommendation there is to make it nine members, 'again one from each district, consistent with some of the suggestions that have come from this group on some of the other Boards. Department of Research and Development, I've already given my ideas on that. The Cost -of -Government Commission, finally. It seems to me that the meetings are too frequent as proposed, that every three to four years would be more appropriate if you had such a Commission. That's because it takes them one year to study the operation of the government It would take a second year to put the changes they recommended into effect. By then you're appointing a new committee to study again. It seems that the changes haven't really had a chance to work in and see if they're effective until they've had a year in place. RAY: We are amending that to every four years. BLANN: Great. That is everything I wish to say. Thank you. RAY: Walt. Kriewald, followed by Councilwoman Bobby Jean Leithead- Todd. KRIEWALD: I don't want to keep hitting a dead horse here, but there are a couple of things in the minutes of your previous two meetings before the Waimea meeting that I took issue to, and both of them come from Ms. Herkes. One of them, she says about spending money for campaigns, and she says `do you know how much, let's pick Chairman Arakaki, spent in his last campaign', and I brought that up at the Waimea meeting. He spent $71,000 running unopposed. Finance matters a great deal in the County elections, and I didn't have time to pull the rest of them, but I just picked Al Smith's, but I'm sure Ms. Leithead-Todd can speak to it, maybe. Mr. Arakaki's ran 40 10