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professional engineers; their administrative capabilities are more important . 6. Southward: Initiative should not be applicable to land planning matters. Signatures on initiative petitions should not be valid after the general election after which they are collected; there should be no 3-5 year period to collect signatures. Petitions should state for which general election they are intended and should be invalid after that election. 7. Southward: Fifteen percent of the people who voted for office of mayor in the last election should be changed to 15% of the number of registered voters. 8. Southward: Charter required resident address , social security number , date of signing, etc. , Corporation Counsel ' s office and County Clerk waived those requirements in the Hapuna initiative. This should be reinforced in the Charter. 9 . Southward: There is a second change for a petition committee to obtain signatures if necessary, there is no second chance for withdrawals. Second chance should be eliminated if petitions are filed without the proper number of signatures. 10. Southward: The requirement of 100 signatures for impeachment petition is too low. It should be 5% of those registered to vote in the last election. 11. Southward: Re boards/commissions, representation of populations is more important than representation of specific districts. Leave it to discretion of mayor and Council whether geographic area is represented. 12. Southward: Support the retention of Section 13-4(d) and 13-8 ; board and commission members whose terms expire should not continue to serve. 13 . Southward: Section 13-8 needs to clarify when the term of office of a department head begins. Suggests that the word "qualified" be deleted. 645