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The points we made were ten points. I won ' t go into them. I think that they have been dealt with quite . completely. I ' ll read them. . .that is that the county council consist of nine members. That one member be elected from each of the nine districts. . .there be no councilman elected at-large. . .That the terms be four years and staggered. The nine districts be reapportioned following the 1980 census. That there be interim appointments when the councilman is unable to carry out his duties as a representative of the council . . . .That there be a balanced budget. . . .The property tax on any piece of residential property not to exceed 1% of its assessed value. . .with the assessed value not to increase more than 2% per year except When the - property is sold. . .That there be a provision of a Sunset Law. . . . and that all agencies and department heads appointments and removals be ratified by the county council. We feel that the council does not have enough strength. That there is too much strength in the position of the 'mayor. We would like to see this balance shift back somewhere towards center. I would like now to turn the mike over to iPalani and he can do the summation. MR. CROSBY: Ladies and gentlemen, I 'm the first vice-president of the Kona Coast Chamber of Commerce and Gordon expressed the position of the Chamber that that we have discussed at our deliberations. Our president is out of town at the present time. As a property owner in two districts and a business person here 'and a person who has served as you are on a charter revision commission, when I lived on the mainland, I can appreciate your dilemma in resolving all of the matters brought before you and trying to come up with recommendations that will stand the test of time in the future. I think that you will probably, in your deliberations , determine 'the more common forms of county government in 'use throughout the country have been the super- visorial system 'that we at one time had for a period after statehood© . .The type of county government that we have had for the past period. . .and the question now is what kind of county government will we have for the period in the ten years ahead. The one that has stood the test of -time best around the country is the one we have not yet tried. That is the one that is being advocated by the group tonight. It mostly follows what will over the future for this county be the best for all concerned from the experience of other areas-_'of the country. I 'm sure that if you will go into it fully, you will find that to be the case. In the concern that the community has here I 'm sure this point has been made and it could be made more -34-