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OLSON: Yes, so I guess from a practical sense, there isn't going to be time for a special election anyway. Thank you. HIGASHI: Ginny was talking about Managing Director. OLSON: Yes, but I mean, what you are saying then is that you would like to see that particular issue, or all of the issues, go to a special election? That's the question. HIGASHI: My question is (undiscernible) person to the public, if you support a Managing Director, would you want to wait four years until this election is over and then go to a Managing Director form of government? OLSON: To save the County some numbers of hundreds of thousands of dollars, yes. That makes sense. I mean, not only that, but I think that if you determine that a Managing Director system is what you want, getting the logistics of that, the criteria for the position. You know there's just a whole lot of things involved there that is not simply going to spring magically into place just because you changed the law and you no longer have a Mayor. I mean that's a process that's going to have to be worked out. Quite frankly, I'm not even certain that I'm all that - l mean, look what happened to Orange County. The Managing Director took all of the money and put it into junk bonds and they all went bankrupt so I don't think we really want to be rushing down that road. It just may not have a good end. I think we want to look at it and have a discussion process. And people will have time to consider it between now and the next election. If they elect a Mayor and then we've got four years to work out the details and I think that's plenty quickly enough if we're going to make that major a change in the way we do business. HIGASHI: Okay. MARTIN: I have a question, if I may. You made mention about an alternate. Correct me if I'm wrong. You said you wanted to see the number go to 10 and with one alternate or with 10 alternates? OLSON: Ten alternates. In other words, there would be a position on Board or Commission plus an alternate for that Board or Commission. MARTIN: For each position? OLSON: For each position for each Board or Commission. I don't see necessarily any increase in cost. I mean, the alternate is simply going to be kept informed of what's going and informed of meetings, and it would be up to the Board person to inform the alternate if he is not going to be able to attend a Board or Commission meeting.