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Police Commission, etc. Boards should be the Boards that actually do work at <br />administering a department or an area of the government. <br />HERKES: Mr. Ray, could we ask our legal counsel to please check that <br />language? I think that's a good point. <br />IRVINE: Yes, that's what I was going to say. Although, I was just going to <br />ask Del, where did you get this information? <br />PRANKE: Which? <br />IRVINE: That Boards and Commissions have - <br />PRANKE: Well, I looked up the definition in the dictionary. <br />IRVINE: Okay. <br />PRANKE: They're not a lot different, and sometimes they'll talk about - <br />IRVINE: We heard testimony to this concerning our Water Board, or Water <br />Commission - it ought to be Board. <br />PRANKE: Yes. Well, I think there are some of them that are misnamed, <br />• perhaps, and the other thing would be to use those terms would give some consistency <br />to the Charter. <br />• <br />I want to go on to the definition of 'maladministration'. This is from Webster's <br />Dictionary. I didn't get a chance to check Black's Law Dictionary because I was, kind <br />of, busy this week. But `maladminister' is to - administration that is corrupt or <br />incompetent as that of a public office. That is what 'maladministration' means <br />according to Webster. Now, there's another definition, `administration that is incorrect <br />such as that of giving the wrong drug or maladministering a drug in a hospital or <br />elsewhere'. So, `maladministration' has a definite meaning and it has a meaning that <br />think is important to maintain in the County Charter. I don't think removing that is going <br />to make much of a change to how our government runs, and I think keeping it in there <br />is probably important, as I don't think the idea of making it harder for folks to impeach <br />someone - Remember, for instance, the impeachment of a President of the United <br />States does not require that everybody in the country, or that a large number of people, <br />approve that, only the number of people in the Senate, a hundred people, send that <br />over to the House of Representatives. Well, that's a hundred people, the same number <br />that we would have to have for an impeachment here. And I think that's enough. A <br />recall is a recall of someone who's elected. That takes a lot of people because that <br />puts it on the ballot, but an impeachment is a two-step process. Just getting a hundred <br />signatures on an impeachment petition doesn't impeach somebody. That only takes it <br />19 <br />