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CHARTER AMENDMENTS PROPOSED BY KELLY POMEROY 9-15-89 Section 3-4. Compensation ; Salary Commission. (b) The commission shall consist of nine members, who shall represent the districts as provided in Section 13-4 of this charter . In addition, the civil service director and deputy civil service director shall serve as ex-officio members of the commission in an advisory capacity. Section 3-5. Vacancy in Office. [Change "he succeeds" to "being succeeded" ; change "twelve o'clock meridian" to "noon" ; change "his election" to "the election" .] Section 3-16. General Plan. [Change "air pollution" to "air and water quality" ; insert "environmental " between "social " and "economic" .] (c) Amendments to the general plan may be initiated by the council , by the planning director, or by a private party which submits a proposal to the council or to the planning director. In the case of a land use reclassification proposal by or on behalf of a private party, said proposal shall be considered to have been initiated by the private party, and neither the council nor the planning director shall claim to have initiated it. Such a proposal may not be exempted from environmental impact statement, requirements and must receive hearing publicity in its own right , not as one of a list of general plan revisions. Section 4-2. Organization. The activities under the direction and supervision of the mayor shall be distributed among such agencies as may be established either by this charter or by the county council . New functions may be assigned by the mayor to existing agencies. Section 5-1 .1 Election and Term of Office. The mayor shall be elected for a term of four years, which term shall commence at noon on the first Monday of December following the election. Section 5-1 .2. Qualifications. Any person elected as mayor of the county shall have been a duly qualified elector of the county for at least one year immediately prior to being elected. The mayor may not serve for more than two consecutive full terms of office. Section 5-1 .4. Powers, Duties and Functions. The mayor shall be the chief executive officer of the county, vested with all the executive powers of the county, except as otherwise provided by this charter. The mayor shall have the power to: (a) Exercise direct supervision over all agencies enumerated in this article or established by mayoral privilege, and through the managing director supervise and coordinate all other executive agencies of the county, except as otherwise provided by this charter. (e) [Delete the portion after the semicolon.] Section 5-1 .5. Vacancy in Office. MOM The person elected as the successor shall , if the term of the person being succeeded has not expired, serve out the unexpired term commencing at 589