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• fact that they resided in the same districts. Nobody would be disqualified. I would draw your attention to Section 3 of this. Two new members will be appointed and those would be appointed from any vacant district. There would be at least two districts which do not have representation so the Mayor would appoint to those districts. And what it says here is 'allow for the staggering of terms, one of the two new commissioners would be appointed to five-year term and the other appointed to a one-year term, and would be eligible for a second term'. And I wanted to specify because when Commissions start off, they have started off with different lengths of terms, and so they don't all expire at the same time. This way, you'll have one that will come on and be appointed for five years and that won't expire for five years. You'll have one that will expire in one year but that individual will be eligible for reappointment and it will involve the same Mayor so, presumably, that person could be reappointed for another five-year term and stay on for six years. What I did was the same thing that was done when, I think, the Police Commission was changed from seven to nine. I can't remember which Commission. And this was the strategy that was adopted. HIGASHI: Chris, is there a Statute or a section in the Charter in which you cannot succeed yourself in any commission? YUEN: Except if you're appointed to an initial one-year term. That's in 13 -something. It should be — just a second. Yes, you can't succeed yourself except if you're appointed to an initial term of one year or two years, you can succeed yourself. So that's why the person who gets the five years would not be eligible to succeed himself or herself. The person who gets the one-year would be eligible to get a second appointment of five years when the one-year ran out. RAY: So does everybody understand that? I mean the rest of it is pretty straight forward, so this is just trying to accommodate the changeover. Sue? IRVINE: Never mind. YOSHIYAMA: I move for the acceptance of the language for Charter Amendment No. 14. HIGASHI: Second. RAY: Any more discussion? All in favor? COMMISSIONERS: Aye. RAY: want — YUEN: This is the Statement of Purpose or Policy and, actually, the Commission adopted this, the Statement of Policy, and as far as I could tell from reading the minutes, we didn't come to a decision on exactly where it would be put in the Code of Ethics. It could be its own — I did it this way. Right now you have a Section 14-1 which doesn't have any subsection. It just has this first two sentences. I changed the title of this section from 'Enactment' to 'Enactment and Policy'. I changed what was there. I put it in as (a) and I put the Statement of Opposed? Okay, No. 15, the addition of the Code of Ethics. Chris, you 4