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TORIGOE: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I Chink it's within your discretion to handle it <br /> either way. You know, as you noted there have been two hearings on Item 5; and actually even <br /> that is more just a matter of policy. It's not something that's required by law that you do that. <br /> But your policy and the practice has been to have two hearings on something like this. That has <br /> been done for No. 5. It has not been done for Sa at this point. But if the Commission feels like it <br /> would be clearer for everybody, you know, one way or the other, I think it's within your <br /> discretion to either vote on 5 today and then vote on Sa the next time, or you could put off 5 <br /> today also, you know, to the next Kona meeting. <br /> GRAHAM: Okay. That's certainly my, my intention is to put off our actual voting on <br /> 5 today until the next Kona meeting. But, Commissioner Iwashita, you have any comment on <br /> that? <br /> IWASHITA: My feeling is that we ought to vote on 5 today; and then we can have the <br /> additional hearing on Sa in Kona at our next Kona meeting and vote on Sa at the time. My, it's a <br /> procedural My feeling is basically just procedurally because we have two separate proposals. <br /> And to me to put them together is not procedurally correct to try and vote on them together. <br /> Because, you know, if one supports one measure and then opposes another, then you're going to <br /> have a convoluted motion that says we move to approve the ban and we vote to disapprove the <br /> added addition of another area. So it becomes convoluted and I think procedurally incorrect. So <br /> I think they need to be voted on separately. And so my choice would be to vote on the agendized <br /> matter that has been heazd, the ban which had been heard already in Kona and we' 11 hear today. <br /> WATANABE: Mr. Chair? <br /> GRAHAM: Yes, Commissioner Watanabe. <br /> WATANABE: I don't think we're really deciding whether, we're going to combine the <br /> voting on 5 and Sa. We're just deciding as to whether we're going to vote on 5 during this <br /> meeting. Certainly if the Commission decides to forego on the vote this meeting on No. 5 then <br /> we could vote sepazately on both issues in the subsequent Kona meeting. And so I don't think <br /> it's an issue of whether we combining both proposals into one decision. And I have no real <br /> problem with continuing to the Kona meeting since it's more of a practice as opposed to a rule <br /> with regard to, you know, whether we vote after the second meeting or not. And, also, because <br /> the two proposals are very, very similar, and I think I also want a little more information too. <br /> GRAHAM: Okay. Mr. Yuen? <br /> YUEN: Yes. Let me just give more information about why we're recommending <br /> that the Commission not vote on the ban today and wait until the Kona meeting. Clearly you <br /> will take separate votes on the two items. Somebody might say well I support the ban and I <br /> oppose the other, but you have two proposals and you would take separate votes on them. We <br /> would not recommend voting on the zoning district bill today simply because it hasn't formally <br /> <br /> been agendized on both sides of the island. It was available, it was in the materials as an option <br /> <br /> but it wasn't actually on the agenda. So just as a matter of practice when we have anisland-wide <br /> item we want to have it agendized on both sides of the island. So that leads to our <br /> recommendation to not vote on the ban today simply because your role here is to make a <br /> recommendation to the County Council, and there are two alternatives now really on the same <br /> 3 <br /> <br />