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MR. PULHAM: He might be a little bit more of <br /> a diplomat. A little bit more inclined to be an administrator <br /> than what we have been having in the past® <br /> MRS. KOBAYASHI : Suppose he represents a <br /> district, then? He wouldn ' t be voting. <br /> MR. PULHAM: Politics is the art of persuasion. <br /> MR. TRULSON : Mr. Pulham, regarding your <br /> proposal on redistricting of having two councilmen from each <br /> district. Is that one-man , one-vote? is that equal represent- <br /> ation? <br /> MR. PULHAM: No, I think you are a little-- <br /> we said, we are doubling it so you would have; four in Hilo, <br /> the 2nd district has an A and a B portion. They have ,two <br /> representatives, they would have four councilmen: Did I mis,= <br /> inform you? There are five representatives but there are only <br /> four districts. <br /> MR. TRULSON: I thought you meant two from <br /> each district. <br /> MR. PULHAM: No. <br /> MR. TRULSON: In the election of the commission, <br /> you mentionedi, the Charter Commission. Are you proposing that <br /> all commissions be elected? <br /> MR. PULHAM: No. <br /> MR. TRULSON: There is one stipulation that <br /> except as otherwise provided, not more than a bare majority the <br /> members shall belong to the same political party. So far, the <br /> county is predominantly Democratic.. What if all Democrats get <br /> in? We would have to change the charter provision there, also. <br /> MR. PULHAM: You would have to have a non-partisan <br /> provision. A non-partisan status such as the Constitutional <br /> Convention is required to be is the only way you can get around <br /> that. <br /> MR. ISHIDA: Mr. Pulham, on the zero base <br /> budgeting, one of the questions that has been coming up all the <br /> time that zero base`. budgeting was raised is what effect, if <br /> any, would that have on collective bargaining? Can those two <br /> things be reconciled?` <br /> MR. PULHAM: On the zero base budgeting? I don ' t <br /> see why not. Because we simply start--to me--and as I admitted <br /> earlier, I am not a whiz in the financial area either the state <br /> or the county--but if you start from zero and you know you have <br /> a fixed cost of collective bargaining, right, you know what <br /> it is going to cost. So I don ' t see where this <br /> - 23 - <br />