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representation. I think that if he completely dies, it is taken care of in there. But if he is just gone for six months like we have going on right now, the people don 't have rep- resentation. They don 't have a vote and this is wrong. You can work that out if a person is capable he can appoint _someone like "a 'proxy. His successor, in other words , until he is capable of resuming his office. If he is incapacitated I see no reason why the county chairman of the party to which he belongs can ' t appoint a replacement. As I say, I am not really hung up on how you do it but I know as a citizen that if some- thing happened to my particular councilman, and he couldn ' t be there for six months, I would certainly like to have someone there representing myself and the rest of the community. So I think we have to take care of this. The next two items I will present myself and not the Community Club because we haven ' t discussed it. The first one that I would like to suggest is that you limit terms of elected county officials in this charter to- not more than 8 years-consecutive years-in any one office. I 'm talking about all elected officials, not just the councilmen. My reasoning behind that is obvious to at least:. That it provides for better government. It provides for more participation.;by;:more people. It does not limit anyone from serving. He can serve in another office. If the people really want this person back after he has sits out a term and works for a living he can come back and run again and get elected. I 'm very much against professional politicians and I think this is one method of assuring the people that at least there is a change in their gouernment. ..._.;That they can bring about change. The second item which I personally would like to propose to you and I guess I haven ' t met any of you person- ally before. . .if I have, then I forgot it. I `apologize.- Except Mr. Sakata. This is no reflection on this panel what- soever. Again , being,:a student of government, I think that I need propose that this Charter Review Commission be an elected body. For a number of reasons. Again, it has nothing to do with personalities because ten years from now we are going to have different people. We are going to have a different appointing authority. The point is that is exactly what you have. You have a political entity appointing people to review the document which that particular entity functions under. In other words, ten years down the road from now some- body could stack the deck so to speak and there is no way that the people can do anything about it because it is written into the charter presently that they are appointed members. So I think that if we are really interested in good government that we need to do something about this sort of thing. It will be up to you to see if you have the courage to do it or not. But I really believe that this is where our government starts. It is with the people after all . -So if the Charter Review Commission is elected as the Consti- tutional Convention members were. . .You might not agree with - 19 -