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• <br />RAY: <br />Fred Holschuh: <br />Not if you're not signed up to testify. George Wallace, followed by <br />WALLACE: Thank you. I signed up to speak to impeachment but I hear all <br />these people speaking to several issues. I'd like to add one at the end. I have three <br />questions and one statement. <br />First question on Impeachment. How many elected officials have been impeached in <br />the last ten years? Just one. <br />RAY: There's been one proceeding, I think. <br />MARTIN: Zero. Nobody. <br />HERKES: One proceeding but nobody impeached. <br />WALLACE: Have these impeachment proceedings had a major detrimental <br />effect on the function of County government? <br />RAY: I think that's questionable. I think it was extremely disruptive to the <br />folks that were involved in the last impeachment proceeding, but that's - <br />HERKES: And it costs money. <br />WALLACE: I understand it might be embarrassing. It might be emotionally <br />disturbing and nerve-racking to be impeached. I think we saw that in the national level <br />as well, but I was speaking to the actual function of County government. And I didn't <br />see County government suddenly freeze up and stop. And if something isn't broken, <br />don't see why we have to fix it, first. And then, this proposed change would simply <br />further reduce the recourse of voters to force removal of elected officials who are <br />simply doing a bad job in their work of administering to the County, and for the County, <br />to the citizens of the County. I'm absolutely against this change. <br />In a similar vein, you speak to changing to an Environmental Services or things like <br />that. There's a possibility that you have not considered and I would like to ask you to <br />consider it: In many other parts of the country, to do certain kinds of heavy duty lifting <br />for small areas of a county, or a whole county, they have Local Improvement Districts <br />where District Commissioners are elected to do things like take care of solid waste <br />management, or provide water services. Perhaps, that's what we need to do, and <br />would ask you to speak, particularly, to, and why is there seeming to be an avoidance <br />of the issue of the substandard subdivisions on this island. Those substandard <br />subdivisions are the unrecognized bastard children on this island, and I will remind you <br />that Lawrence of Arabia was an unrecognized bastard child, and it's time to do <br />something about it. <br />27 <br />