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PRANKE: Some people see that as political because all of the members of the Police Commission have been appointed by the current Mayor and the current - GOODELL: Nominated. PRANKE: Oops, sorry. Exactly. I've fallen into it. Let the cat out of the bag and whip me. Well, I think you get the point and I don't want to take up - I told you at the last meeting I attended I'd give you five. I only gave you four proposals. The one that I really struggled with here was having a standing Charter Review Commission and a Reapportionment Commission. That's going to take a lot of writing and I don't have a secretary so I will work on that and get that kind of a possibility. We shouldn't go through this every ten years. If there's some errors in the Charter that need to be changed, we should be able to do that every couple of years. HERKES: We did it. Look at this. I've got pasted all over. PRANKE: I know. You guys did it, but here you come having to put almost 20 things before the voters, and that's going to be confusing to them. So, I'm in favor of having a standing Charter - And I put in there the process I thought should be used. And apparently you don't disagree with me because number 19, the Cost -of - Government Commission, you're saying would be appointed by the Council, which is the way I put this — one person from each Council district. • HERKES: Actually, Mike Christopher came up with a tremendous - I guess, it's San Diego that has a Civil Jury system. Everybody can throw their names into a hat. They just draw them out, and I really like that as a system for picking something like a Cost -of -Government Commission. I wanted to thank you, especially, for the one that you didn't mention and that was the conduct of employees. PRANKE: Oh, I'm going to get to that. HERKES: Okay, do you want to do it first? I wanted to thank you for that. PRANKE: Yes, I put in there a specific thing that Tying should be a violation of the Code of Ethics. Previously I put something to you. It was kind of off the cuff and said deliberate lying. Lying is deliberate. The definition of lying is to deliberately deceive someone, and the way I put this in here. And I'm sorry for the folks that are here that I don't have more copies of this, but I'm sure you can get it off the web, or don't know. You can get it from her, the things I put in. That should be a violation of the Code of Ethics. Now, you can't just charge somebody with lying and then they're guilty. You've still got to go before the Board of Ethics and prove that it was a lie. Somebody could tell you something that's not true, and it's not a lie if they didn't know that. But recently one member of the County Council has been caught twice on video tape just not being truthful, and it seems to be deceptively not truthful, so that, kind of, 21