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thrust of this Commission is going to carry a lot of weight, like if you're recommending things that people like and people feel confident in. On that basis, you're going to carry the bulk of what's here when it comes to the election. You are a Commission appointed by the Mayor so - RAY: And confirmed by the Council. GRAHAM: So a Commission appointed by the Mayor that's putting through provisions which are very controversial, which will have a Targe vocal opposition. Maybe it will have a large vocal support also, but will have a large vocal opposition, and provisions we now live by which are not broken, in my mind, and have such sweeping consequences as changing the Council make-up, to me, really has a lot of potential to really poison your whole thing. And so it wouldn't be hard for me to see, when the election results come out, that a couple of these major issues may go one way or the other, but the whole thing could go down because of all the suspicion, and all the charges, and all the controversy that surrounds it. So, given the fact, that I haven't been to your meetings but I don't believe the public has come out in force and said the way we elect our Council members is broken, we need to change it. I don't believe that's happened. I don't believe that people feel that, and I believe that the whole discourse that goes on in the Council, with the wide variety of Council members that we have now compared to what we had ten years ago, is healthy for the political discourse in the County, even though I recognize that it has some detriment in the sense of the smoothness of operation, or whatever. So last time I spoke on the merits of it. I'm just encouraging you now on the consequences of what you're trying to do here. I think it's a big mistake and I hate to see a lot of your other work go down because of that, and I hate to do that myself. I hate to come out here and try to say I don't think the Planning Commission is really listening to the people of the County when they propose this kind of stuff, and have that kind of stuff come back and have prejudicial consequences on everything else you've done, which it can't help but do. So I don't like to have to do that either. So that's what I had to say. 1 just feel like you're really taking a step in the wrong direction unless you really feel it's the most important thing you need to do so you throw all your apples in that basket. Thank you. RAY: Okay. Any questions for Bill? MARTIN: Just a comment and possibly a question. Thank you for your input and I think it's well taken that exactly one bad apple may spoil the whole bunch. And if in fact it is a bad apple, then the public will have the right to make the decision come November. As far as your statement that you like the single district representation, I think maybe there's maybe a misnomer that you're going to be losing that, and you're not. You're still going to have your single member district. Nobody loses their single member district. As a matter of fact, some of the districts get a little bit bigger because of the make-up on the 6-3. You still have six individual Council members from six. individual districts, so to think that you're going to be losing anything, again, is a misnomer. The plight of this particular amendment would be the three at -large, and we have discussed it time and time again, and tried to come up with some manner to make 13