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Re HAWAII COUNTY POLICE COMMISSION meeting of 14 November 1997, at 10:07 AM (Partial transript on determining if legal counsel for police indicated in Civil 97-452) Secretary: Roll Call: Chair Sharon Scheele (here), Vice Chair Francis Smith (here), Commissioner Donald Abdul (here), Commissioner Deborah Baker (yes), Commisioner Clarence Mills (yes), Commissioner Charles Sakamoto (yes), Commissioner Bumalyn Yee (yes), Madam Chair -Commissioners Clyde Williams and Clarence Souza are unable to make today's meeting. Chair Scheele: The next item on the agenda is the approval of the agenda. The chair wants to hear a motion to add correspondence 515 to the agenda for a request of legal counsel and also to amend the agenda (different item) Members: So move. Second. Chair: Any discussion?, all in favor signify by saying aye (ayes by members), opposed say nay. Motion is carried. At this time we have public statements on the agen- da. Do we have any public statements? I would like to remind anyone that is go- ing to testify during this public statement time that we have a limitation of 5 mi- nutes and the testifier will be timed and you will get a one minute warning when 4 minutes is up and then you must stop speaking when the 5 minutes are up. Secretary: We have one public statement from Henry Ross. Chair: Okay Mr Ross, would you like to please move up here for your statement? Henry Ross: I will make this as brief as possible. Chair: You have 5 minutes. Ross: Now, actually I have a number of items, when you multiply that by 5 minutes Chair: I am not multiplying by 5 mintes. You have 5 mintes to make your public state- ment. Ross: I feel I have to tell you something. This, Madam Chair, is a public forum and I appear to be the only speaker. If you find it necessary to limit me to 5 minutes, I won't be able to make my presentation in full. I object to that. You are here to serve the public and as such, if there is time available, I think you should give me more time. Be that as it may, I would like to inform the Commission that I am against the request for legal counsel for the police officers who sent in their correspondence, 5 items and apparently there is one more to come. I have good reasons for doing so and want to inform you about that. I don't think that public