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Council did have to pass on the appointments of Carpenter , they were loyal to Carpenter period. And I don' t think it made. . . this I think made for some of the poor relationships that existed between the mayor and the Council. Personally, I favor the city manager type of government, but I think you can get away from that kind of relationship. And we get down to a more professional type of organization, such as , the position of mayor , from the setup that we had, had nothing to do with what is . . .what his duties are setup to be, is dependent upon who he is . It ' s purely up to the individual in terms of the type of administration he ' s gonna to have. And we have had very broad differences between the relationships in the Council, I think , in effectiveness ofthe.-County government because of the differences of the personalities . So then we have to have something that ' s going to get down to. . .or even get away with (inaudible) those problems with the city manager , mayor , Council type setup..We. . .we should minimize that. SMITH: I 'm attracted to this . . . to city manager forms of government as well for a variety of reasons . What I here is a compromise, where you have some of the propose P � advantages of a city manager system--i .e. primary respon- sibility over the administration of. . .addressing with the Council--and some of the advantages of a strong-mayor system, i .e. an identifiable mayor . I think that ' s good . There' s somebody there. There ' s an administration. . .an identifiable administration. And so what I ' ve suggested here is kind of a hybrid, so that you can take some of the advantages of both systems. GREENWELL: (Inaudible) melting together of the. . . BETHEA: Let me ask another question, when you talk about the council-manager system of government and whatever . And the mayor is largely the figurehead with all policy-making authority being within the Council itself, in which the mayor sits as a co-equal member . Well, under our present system, doesn' t the County make policy? As a matter of fact. . . SMITH: Theoretically . BETHEA: Well, let ' s go beyond theoretically . It seems to me that with the Council' s control over budget, they not only make broad policy through the use of the computer system, they are so able carefully to monitor all expenditures , that in fact, they go beyond what you might call policy, through their control of the budget process , in saying well, no, you're going to be allowed 170