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MR. TRULSON: Mr. Moss. I have two questions. I was just going over your figures regarding redistricting and composition of the council and I can only think back. at what has happened. I can ' t look into the future. But, based on the representation by district: that you9:have set up, I would see a lot of 6-3 voting, and I notice you have done 'away with the at-large. Isn ' t the at-large councilmember there to do away with localized ideas so that if you get' up an issue it will not be localized if you have the at-large councilmembers to sort of offset that? There again I kind of look at that as kind of a check and balance type of thing. If you look at. the makeup the way it is--District 2 is always--to be realistic about it-- you get 371/2% of the voters in District 2 and you are going to have 3 councilmen. All the outlying district has 6 more. To me, I look at and see a lot of 6-3 voting. I hope I would be wrong but I see that sort of setuppW, Did you consider that at all when you were developing this plan? MR. ZUZA,K We 've never had that come. °up yet, as a matter of fact. In all of our discussions, that is the first time that has been brought up. That there would be a possibility. It doesn ' t seem that it would be very much different than it would be today. MR. MOSS: Your at-large people all come from that district. MR. ZUZAK: . The requirement is that they have a home district. Now the districts we are talking about, as you know, are not these districts. This is a representationship district where the other is a, geographical district. They must have a home district and that is the only difference. MR. TRULSON: We have had some other parities here ,f0.6 redistricting and they put them into legislative districts. MR. ZUZAK` : That ' s what these are, sir. MR. TRULSON: But they have also retained the at-large. Some have said two; some have said four. One other question. It was in your letter of February 25 butyou didn ' t mention it in your presentation today and that is the staggered elections. I 'd like a little more input on that if you please. MR. MOSS: We feel that a staggered election basis would provide a continuity within the council so that you don ' t have a completely green bunch of- that has to organize themselves. That have to ,earn- rlgtit from word one. AllZbhe timeyouwould have some people who have been there for at least 2 years and learn the ropes. I 'm not going to say the stag- gered election is a big thing- that I wpuld say we've got to have it, absolutely. But I think it would be a very nice thing and also it would tend to make people more aware of their govern- ment if every 2 years they elected one of their representatives - 21