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• Again this is an issue because we don't have local government. Where I grew up, you have Mayors of townships and that's a reasonable sized unit for - geographically, etc. it's more homogenous than this island is so that I would much rather see a Mayor at a local level and a County Manager at a County level which is, we can't put townships in through the County Charter but it's a goal of mine ultimately if we can ever get through the State Legislature with it. But I wouldn't want to do anything that would take away from that momentum. RAY: Okay. Any questions? No? All right, thank you very much. Our next speaker is Richard Boyd. MARTIN: Actually I have a question. RAY: Okay. MARTIN: Just a simple question. If there were to be neighborhood boards and they were to have some authoritative power, would you be in favor of that? PATTON: If they had substantially the powers that a local government normally enjoys in the other 49 states, yes. MARTIN: Thank you. RAY: Can you speak into the mike, please? BOYD: I'll try to do that. RAY: Thank you very much. BOYD: Yes, my name's Richard Boyd. I'm from North Kohala as are most everybody over here except this one gentleman from Waikoloa. So you can tell - RAY: I think they must just trust their Chairman here in Waimea. That must be it, I don't know. BOYD: The Commission should note that North Kohala people care. Not to say that other community people don't care but we drove up here. RAY: Thank you very much. BOYD: And we're here for a purpose. Anyway, I don't disagree with anything that's been said by Bill so far or Lesley and I pretty much know what Ken's going to say and I don't disagree with what he'll be saying. I just want to elaborate a little, as you •