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• <br />'responsive and efficient' might be good goals, and that's why I put those two words in there. <br />HERKES: Do you want a motion? <br />YUEN: If I could just make a brief suggestion. I think what you're discussing is <br />really more of a Statement of Purpose and that could be put in Article I. I would suggest that <br />rather than changing the Preamble because the Preamble just is an adopting statement and we <br />don't want to say that the voters are adopting the Charter because they adopted the Charter a <br />long time ago. They're not really re -adopting the Charter. I think what the members who are <br />discussing the Preamble are getting at is more a desire to have some kind of overall statement <br />of what the purpose of having a Charter is. I think we could amend the title of Article I to <br />include a Statement of Purpose and put it in there if the Commissioners wish to do that. <br />IRVINE: I personally have no thoughts on where it should — I knew, as an attorney, <br />you'd have some help for us, and I'm not committed to this happening. It's just that Marni had <br />passed around a version. <br />RAY: Do we have a motion? <br />SANTANGELO: No. <br />RAY: No. Yes, no? <br />SANTANGELO: One of the things that I liked about what you were reading, and be it in <br />Purpose or not, if I understand why we're doing this is if a person picks up the Charter and <br />wants to open it up to the first page, they should get some idea about what it's about. The <br />other thing is if the ordinance body, the Council and the Administration, wanted to change <br />something in the Charter, that there's a genesis or a root that they go to that should give them a <br />guideline on how they should go about it and what they're going about, and so I don't have a <br />problem with that. I don't know about this 'shall'. I understand the thing behind it but again, as <br />you said, things like honesty, ethics, things like that, that comes from within. You can't <br />mandate that. That just should be there. So I like what you have and I don't have a problem <br />putting it in the Purpose. <br />RAY: <br />HERKES: <br />Marni and Sue, what's your enthusiasm for putting this in the Article I? <br />Let me read you Maui's. <br />RAY: Wait a minute. But the idea of putting it under Article 1 as a Purpose <br />section vs. a Preamble? <br />HERKES: Article I is Incorporation and Geographical Limits. Would you change <br />Article I to Purpose? <br />YUEN: If we wanted to put Purpose somewhere, that's where I would put it and <br />you'd change the title — <br />• <br />22 <br />