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• Policy as (b). • • IRVINE: I must say I don't think we're improving our Charter's readability with the way we've got this. I'm not quite sure of what the answer is but we're talking there about elected and appointed officers and employees, and if everybody looks in the Charter on page 32, 33, it's Section 14-4 that talks about conduct of employees. And this enactment and then standards are over on page 32 under 14-1 and 14-2. I, kind of, wish Marni were here. This was her amendment, so to speak, I think. MARTIN: Is she expected? IRVINE: Yes. MARTIN: How's about we defer till she gets here then? IRVINE: The other thing that I came up with, and I know it's really, really late, but on page 29 under Section 13-10 near the bottom of the page, it says 'prohibitions' and then it goes on to talk about 'persons seeking appointment or promotion can't render or pay money or services to anyone doing it'. This seems to me the next two paragraphs and about appointing a relative, that sounds to me like it should be under the Code of Ethics. I don't quite get -- I mean, it seems like our Code of Ethics is, sort of, strewn around in here and then we're now adding something rather odd besides. Did anybody else notice anything like that or shall we just go ahead with it? RAY: I don't think we want to get into changing that around at this point in time, with the present time frame. IRVINE: Yes. RAY: As far as, I guess, voting on what's before us today, maybe we should wait till Marni gets here, just in deference to her. IRVINE: In case she has something. That's a good idea. RAY; Let's go on to No. 16 which is the Residency and Redistricting. Chris. YUEN : This is meant to cover the situation where you have a reapportionment of Council districts and those Commissions where you're supposed to have a member be a resident of each district. Commission member finds that he's been apportioned out of the district he or she is supposed to represent, and this says that you will continue to be eligible to represent that district. I think the Commission understands. I'm not sure. It's a little hard to explain. I'm not sure about the general public at this point. I think that if you didn't say anything about this, the person would continue to be eligible and would represent. I haven't really researched that but I think it's the kind of thing that's best spelled out. It is spelled out in the Charter for Council members, for the time between the reapportionment and the next election, they don't have to worry that the line has been drawn and they're no longer in their district. They ought to worry for the next election, but they have not become disqualified by the 5