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• know who makes that policy but it's not made by any elected official. It's not made by <br />the County Council. It's not made by the Water Commission. I think it's made by the <br />Manager. Is that correct, John? Who makes that decision? <br />RAY: I think it's made by the Commission. The Commission has jurisdiction <br />over that. <br />• <br />BOCHE: So anyway, enough on the water. <br />INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM, ARTICLE Xl. I'd like to see a lowering of the <br />percentage requirements for the petitioners. You need to have apparently 15% of the <br />signatures of the last mayoral election or something like that and I'd like to see that <br />come down to 10% or 5% or something that's more reasonable for people who want to <br />actually bring forth ordinance for the public to consider and this again, will bring more <br />diversity of ideas and more public discussion about better ways, perhaps or maybe not, <br />to manage our County and whatnot. <br />ARTICLE XIII. GENERAL PROVISIONS. This Section 13-4 on Boards and <br />Commissions. I ask you to look at that very carefully because that's where every - it <br />doesn't matter if it's the Ethics Commission or the Planning Commission or the Water <br />Commission or even the Charter Review Commission. I'd like to see them all be more <br />diversely chosen. I was particularly concerned with the Board of Ethics. That's <br />Section 14-5. Because the public appearance - when somebody comes up before the <br />Ethics Board, the Ethics Board invaribly finds that nothing is wrong and I think it's <br />because of this lack of diversity. The Ethics Board found that there was no problem - <br />I'm not sure but it's my impression that I don't think they found a problem with the <br />Mayor spending County funds to support the irradiator project. Was that before the <br />Ethics Board? <br />RAY: It goes to the State Campaign Commission. <br />BOCHE: That was the State Campaign Commission. Okay, I'm sorry. Anyway, the <br />Board of Ethics, I think needs more diversity. <br />And finally, the Mandatory Charter Reviews. I like the idea of having these reviews <br />every ten years. I think that should be retained in the new Charter and I would like to <br />see the Charter Commission also be chosen with more diversity. Just the <br />mechanism for choosing them. And that's really about all I have. Thank you for your <br />time. <br />RAY: Thank you. Questions? Ms. Herkes. <br />HERKES: I've been waiting to talk to you about diversity and I'm not going to pick on <br />21 <br />