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• the people can be translated into the services which they want to get, and the prices they are willing to pay—then you've got a government with people with goodwill, with the knowledge and ability who can manac in the general interest quite success- fully. If you have one which is difficult to do because the line is intcrrunted in too many places or too molly people get into the act and there are too many things to consider, then this line breaks do;rn. In a typical weak mayor form of govern- • ment, this is what hop,pens-" the awareness of what' s going on is lost. One way to fix that is the strong mayor form of government where you take away all the commissions , committees , so that on actions of the Board or council , they accept as they are directed by the mayor. This can be further simplified to almost the point of the town meeting by taking out the head of the government, mayor or chairman of the board, and putting in a direct employee of the county. The city-manager form of government is a very simple form of government, easy for the people to get what they want,. very easy for people to find out Where the weak link in the chain is . • • When you get into big city,' the manager form of government has not been too successful because there isn' t a way that the • other special interest grou:�s and particularly t�.a political c: • parties can male their legitimate needs felt through this kind of simplified organization.® In large cities , manager form is not very good--you dont have the kind of leadership you need to have. In the manager form .of government one of the greatest questions is how to elect members of the council on partisan or non- . partisan basis ,- or by districts or at—large, or by various . combinati ons a When you take away the erected head of the goverar int:,. by not hav:h g a mayor j%or oa chairman of the board, with any realwthe way the council is distributed power ,, then uCZc. s.,�...� s around the jurisdictions becomes IT.U:te and T:,U::e :ym:^•Urtai.1t because this is not the real government—the council is all the government you have. The manager doesn' t have any powers at all- all he woes is what the council asks him to do There are other drawbacks . It is impossible to have a proper political life with a manager type. ►is not entirely im- possible,_ there- are plenty of opportunities for issues to arise, • plenty of opportunity of people to get mad. at one another, plenty- of decisions to he made at the ballot box, under any form of government and I don' t think the existence of the manager is going to particularly disturb it. • I think that Dr. Larkey said last week that usually there is . .non-partisan election in a council-manager foLm of government0 • • It usually is . The reason why the two are partially incompatible . is that when you get a change in party in the council there is an obligation to clean house. There is one thing that' s different in this community from most mainland communities which might militate against the manager form of government and that is we have in Hawaii very few elective officers . There isn' t a good opportunity for a politician to make a reputation here and his opportunity wouldn' t • be enhanced by putting in a manager who would naturally get all the play. Furthermore, -in the general consideration of the form of government, I don' t think you want to make a mistake of forgetting that you in writing a political document as well as a technical document. Politics is the art of the possible. The thing to do is to recognize not only inevitability but the necessity of strong political. activity in the community and