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COMMENTS ON 1979 CHARTER COMMISSION 1. I believe that any future charter review commission should investigate into the feasibility of employing a full time salaried staff member, excluding the secretary and attorney which may remain parttime, who is familiar with the operation of a government and whose principle duties are to research and gather information for the commission, draft new proposed provisions and being responsible for the care of all re- cords so that the commission will be kept well informed on every and all subjects when discussed. 2. I believe that future commissions should conduct two sets of public hearings. The first to gather input prior to adopting any proposed changes and the second to hear remarks to proposed changes tentatively adopted by the commission. I believe if the first review commission had done this, we would have received the clear objections to the three proposals which were defeated. Also, we would not have had the problems we were faced concerning the council make up proposal. 3. Hold charter elections together with general elections. While the first charter review commission's decision to hold an off year special election so as not to detract from the importance of charter proposals, the apathetic attitude of the citizens do not warrant the county incurring the substantial cost of a special election. In spite of the media controversy experienced just prior to the special election, which brought attention of the special election to the citizens, the turnout was most disappointing.