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solutions far a better future. She also believes it would be fairer especially on issues of land use. Having lived in Chapel Hill and now living in the county she sees a completely different perspective she had then versus what she has now. These issues cannot be decided by solely a role perspective. She hopes they will go beyond the existing system. She asked why does first election need to be in 2008 and Chair Carey said that this was only his proposal and he proposed it because it would have to be submitted to an election in 2006 and then the next board election would be 2008. Keith Cook said he is in favor of district representation, aseven-member board, and single member districts. The last time he dealt with this issue he did not agree with this but now he agrees with this. The members of his community feel that they are not represented. He would advocate adding another option to allow some type of voting from single member districts. Richard Roberts from Little River Township said he thinks we need a plan and he thinks we need 7 seats on the board and he likes the idea of each district picking their own candidate. He would like to see the plan before the vote on this issue. 5. Closing Comments by Board Members Commissioner Gordon said that they need to look at the options they are considering to make sure they are viable. Geof Gledhill said that this is not possible and numbers have to be developed. He said that in option 3 if it is divided along township lines it would exceed the standard deviation permitted by one person, one vote. But beyond that it is impossible to do any more of the concepts until the numbers start developing. Chair Carey said that he presented option 3 as an example and he did not mean for the lines to run exactly along the township lines. The lines will need to be moved around to make sure they meet the constitutional criteria and that means the lines would not be consistently the township lines but the same concept and format can apply. When and if the Board decides it wants to pursue one ar more of those options more extensively the lines can be drawn in and the numbers put in. Commissioner Foushee said that as a Board and staff they need to define the next step of this process before they can either move forward with drawing lines or number crunching. Chair Carey said that he has some ideas and others should share their ideas. Chair Carey said that he would like to see them take action on this issue and to adapt one of these options before the end of the year. If this Board wishes to do that he thinks they can either consider the numbers at that time or draw the lines to put the numbers in after they adapt the model. They will make sure any option will be constitutionally correct of one person, one vote and they have the capacity to do this. Commissioner Halkiotis said that it would be prudent to begin thinking of county resources and to have the Chair, Vice-Chair and Manager put ideas together to bring back for discussion and to perhaps have a meeting within the next 30 days on how to put a group together to look at defining the models to meet the requirements in passing the constitutional requirements. Chair Carey said that he thinks that they do not need another study group but just to work with county staff. Commissioner Gordon confirmed if any Commissioner has suggestions on this issue that should they submit them to Chair Carey, Commissioner Jacobs or the County Manager. The meeting adjourned at 8:25 p.m.