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was a political cover-up for Mr. Carvalho who's in deep water right now, and just barely keeping <br />his head up. And I just wanted to say the people of this county are constantly -- people that <br />come up to me constantly, 'why don't they get rid of that guy'. 'How can we do that?' But we <br />can't. As long as the Mayor appoints the Police Commission and the Police Commission <br />appoints the Police Chief, we cannot get rid of him unless the Police Commission decides that <br />they want to. And if they are under political control of the one person who appoints them, then <br />we have no choice. So, we need to give people the opportunity — they're begging for this out <br />there — the opportunity to change the way the Police Commission is chosen. The Police Chief <br />would still be chosen the same way. To allow each County Council person to appoint a Police <br />Commissioner to the Police Commission with the approval of the rest of the Council, and that <br />person would be appointed from their district. It's that simple. It's a simple change. I've written <br />it up for you and I know you folks have it. It's really, really, really important. Right now, this is <br />the thing that everybody talks about every time they come up to me. 'Why are we stuck with <br />this guy?' The reason we're stuck with him is because the Police Commission is under the <br />control of the Mayor. Now, this wouldn't always be the case. We know that it can happen <br />again. Anyone that serves two terms would have the chance that they would have the majority <br />of the Police Commissioners to have been appointed by the person who would be the Mayor. If <br />we change it the other way, we'd have a much better mix of people who would be appointing <br />the folks, and that, of course, is the bottom line. That's the major, major thing. That's just got to <br />get on the ballot so people have a chance to vote on that. And I appreciate your listening to <br />me. <br />RAY: Thank you. Any questions for Del? <br />IRVINE: I just wanted to comment that we've been over this a lot, and Del knows we <br />have, and it's our impression that the Police Commission is empowered to do their job by the <br />Charter, and we are, as you know, trying to beef up some of the wording, and if they wish to do <br />so, they could do so, and I really don't think that all members of every Board and Commission <br />are under the thumb of the person who appoints them. I think you've noticed that on this <br />Commission, that we do have a variety of people. And I guess I was confused about a lot of <br />your requests. We had so many different things that we were trying to put in that I guess this <br />one has sort of — <br />PRANKE: <br />Okay, sorry. <br />IRVINE: <br />RAY: <br />This has been the major one. We've been talking about this for nine years. <br />Okay, thank you. <br />Marni. <br />HERKES: Do you know what the votes were on the County Council? Each <br />Commissioner is approved by the County Council. Do you have any idea what those votes <br />were on the Commission? That's the check and balance that was in the present Charter. <br />PRANKE: I know that for two of the last Commissioners, Mr. Moe and Mr. Muller, it <br />was six to two with one Council member absent. But on the others, I don't know. But the <br />newspaper stories didn't even begin to tell what circus this was. If you've ever been to a <br />itokangaroo court, that's what this was the other day at the Police Commission meeting. Members <br />2 <br />