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• HIGASHI: Just one word, Ginny. We will be holding agendized items later on - nonpartisan elections, getting some background and also getting background on the Managing Director form of government so watch the paper and when you see that on the agenda, please come back. ASTE: Okay. IRVINE: Either August 11th or 25th actually. HIGASHI: Next speaker, Jon Olson. OLSON: Yes, thank you. My name is Jon Olson. Basically, I guess I'm going to expand upon what Ginny has said. These all have to do with Boards and Commissions. My proposal would be to expand the membership of all Boards and Commissions to 10 members. There being one member for each Council Districtplus one alternate for each Council District. I know that each one of you have all sat on Boards and Commissions where we've all waited for a quorum to appear and I think, in the interest of the public and the people who are donating their time, if you had an alternate, it would increase the likelihood that the Board or Commission could move forward with its business. The appointment by Council District would more closely mirror the change from the Council people being elected at large to being elected by • District which is what we have now. The Mayor, of course, would elect the Chairperson and the Chairperson would, as by Roberts Rules, vote to either make or break a tie. Moving on to the Department of Taxation idea and itemization. I think the answer to your question is "not exactly." The property owner would simply know the amount of money that he paid into roads county wide or solid waste county wide and I think that probably to ask them to break it out too much more than that would probably be cumbersome at this point. But you'd certainly want to know, and of course at that point, you could find out from your Council person if you were interested, how much money that department, the Road Department, spent in your district from that point on. You'd be able to break it down pretty well. And of course, when things like sewer bonding shows up on your tax bill, you know that your district doesn't have any. The other thing is that I think that there has been some talk about having a special election to move this process along and I don't think, economically, that makes any sense or in terms of input from the public. I think that this process is going to take a little time. And as a question of information, the input that is going to this body now, is that going to be summarized somewhere? And then there's going to be what, yet another round of meetings to have discussion about that input? HIGASHI: Yes. •