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• • 'havew..ideas and new leaderp. I think the .charter shou d have..a provision of lirMation. If it is a four-year term, I think eight years is. more than adequate to implement a program and to carry it out . I .think if it is a two-year term, I think it could • possibly be six or eight years as .far as number of years limitation would be good. And I recognize that there are many arguments against this kind of limitations like the United States presidency, one being that if • you have a good- leader, why take him out. 'If you have a Nayor Lee or Mayor Cavanagh, this type of mayors, why should the .limitations legally throw him out of ' office . But I think against that kind of a valid argument, it is weighted by the cnnsideration that we should have new ideas, new leadership, a continuing responsiveness that is built-in legally into the charter. • • For these reasons , I would like -to lecommend very strongly that there be a limitation of terms. And I recognize that , speaking personally, without the benefit of any kind of'.a !'grandfather clause- for the incumbent who is in the position right now. • . And the size of the council, I recognize that public sentiment and possibly sentiment of the Board and the Charter Commission may revolve ' around the magic number seven, but I would like to make a case for a much larger council than seven for several reasons . One, the Big Island, as the title indicates , is very large . We have no local municipalities , we have no • towns , we have no districts . Holualoa, Kealy kekua, • • Honokaa, Olaa, Pahoa, all of these areas, normally the rest of the mainland U.S. would have a municipality of some township or some district government but on • this island we have one centralized county government without any of these small municipalities or townships representing these natural groupings of people . And • it is for this reason that I think the council is their only real representation. . I think the key area as far as figuring out a council size, has to be Kau . ' Kau, • • • . • because of its geographical. isolation•' is faced with the problem of representation. And in :this' area, I would not be at all hesitant to vote for a larger • • council, one that may start using the smallest basis • as Kau and working around the island, and Kona because of its large size could have a multiple districting, Hamakua could have single: lie could have a combination of .single and multiple districts . I believe this meets the Supreme Court decision but I would like to suggest to the Charter Commission that they not be • mesmerized by the figure seven .or some figure less than that. I would like to have the Charter Commission recognize the fact of the size of the island, the • fact that we don ' t have any local government other. ' • .than the county government, other than the council . For this reason, I would like to 'urge upon the Charter • . Commission that we have a larger council than seven. . with the recognition that our natural -groupings such as Kau and the other areas should have representation because this is their best direct method of having representations in the county government. . • • Some other considerations that I have . In terms of the appointments of various boards and commissions , I would like to see the Maui -Charter provision considered by our Charter Commission. I think their recommendation of their provision have cause for a one five-year term for all boards and-commissions have much merit. Five years would place it beyond the • term of any one elected official . . It would 'give them ., 19