The administrative area at Heart Mountain included an H-shaped administration building, a small building for the Block Managers Community Council offices, and another building for the newspaper, agriculture, engineering, and welfare offices, with Caucasian civilian housing, a separate mess hall, and a recreation hall nearby. The civilian War Relocation Authority ran the relocation camps, first under Milton Eisenhower and later Dillon S. Myer, using the Army for security, while camp policies were defined by the WRA and carried out by Project Directors C.E. Rachford and, after December 1942, Guy Robertson. The Heart Mountain staff numbered about 200 people in seven sections: legal services, reports, internal operations, relocation, community management, supply, and finance, and except at the top levels, turnover among Caucasian employees was high. Internees were allowed a form of self-government for many important functions of relocation life: Project Directors appointed one person from each block as a Block Manager to handle daily problems with housing, repair, maintenance, and the mess hall, and in 1943 the internees established and ratified the Charter of Heart Mountain Relocation Center to establish internal justice and promote the welfare of their community. The charter created the position of Councilman, elected by each block for a six-month term to consult with WRA officials about internal problems. The Block Managers were usually Issei, the foreign-born generation, while the Councilmen were U.S. citizens whose first language was English. Although living in Wyoming, internees could not vote there as citizens, but they could cast absentee ballots in their hometown elections.