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2. Influence in a non-partisan fashion the County, state, executive and legislative branches to legislate for West Hawaii . 3 . Establish and maintain close relationships with government officials , and civic and service organizations to further the above. 4 . Island citizens that uphold the one-man, one-vote interpretation of the U. S. Constitu- tion (also indicated in Hawaii ' s Travis vs. King, 1982 case) (35) . B. Recommended Changes : 1 . Art. III , Sec. 2: Smoot: By-pass the 12. Establish presently used distorted population data and .ermanent base use updated census data to change district line for district boundary lines (32) and establish a permanent division. starting base line for district changes (30) . Discussed boundary lines in detail and how the 13. Update dis- districts would actually be divided (22-12) . trict boundaries Juvik: Felt actual boundaries must be set by a per recent census. reapportionment committee appointed by the Charter (10) . Smoot: The distorting factor about the present system is that a person elected from a district may not be the choice of the people in that district. The districts also need to be divided so as not to have more than 4- or - 5 to 10% from equal resident populations (31) . Smoot : Reviewed seven alternatives for 14. Increase the Council and administration to arrive at Council members. their recommendations , whi-ch are presented to 13. as alternatives A, B and C (on page 495 15. Retain at- herein) (30) . large elections. 16. Change to Smoot: Recommends having 9 single-member city manager with districts with representatives serving 2-year ceremonial mayor. terms; recruiting nationwide for professional departmental and city managers (27) ; if this 17. Council isn' t acceptable, he suggests alternates B or C reps serve t- on page 5 of Exhibit B. year terms. 471