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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -9 March 8, 2019 good day, but Saturday, or the other, have these earlier. I am not going to be able to make some of these. It is up to you folks. CHR. ADAMS: Any discussion? When we previously had the conversation... MS. SAQUING: I just had a question on perhaps historical success on the community meetings. Is that a good time for the community at 6:00 p.m.? Have you tried an earlier time, what kind of response did you get if you did? MR. HENRICKS: That is an excellent question that I have no answer to. It is really hard to determine the best time for the most amount of people in any given community on any given day. We just do the best we can. CHR. ADAMS: Commissioner Todd. MS. TODD: Usually the reason you do public hearings in the evenings is to try to accommodate people that can't come during the day because they have to take off time from work or there are other obligations. So, historically I can't speak for the Charter Commission, but I know on the County Council, when we have gone to public hearing, we have done it in the evenings. I think we have... I can't recall if we have done stuff on Saturdays. Saturdays it is difficult because the staff that supports the Council basically works Monday through Friday so if you are going to schedule stuff on a weekend then you have to accommodate and require staff to come in overtime or on their days off and that is why we historically haven't done it on the weekends. That would be something that staff would have to take a look at, but I do want to note that thank you in terms of the scheduling for avoiding most of the...my camping trip with my family in March and that it is early enough that it is not impacting Merrie Monarch cause those are things that would be very difficult. I don't know if you would look at because evenings are overtime anyway, whether you would look at 4:30 p.m.? I know that as someone who has run for office, we frequently moved the hour of the campaign dinner up earlier to try and take care of seniors who don't like to drive at night, so we would start at 4:30. Sometimes we would start at 5:00 p.m. and you know for most of us that is a question, I don't think that we are, If we are able to make it at 11:00 a.m. or at 1:30 p.m., I would imagine that for the Commission that we could make it at 4:30 p.m. or 5:00 p.m. and then that would take care of some of the concerns and would also maybe allow people... some people will drift in later. You know, 6:00 p.m. is fine with me, but I think it is a question that Mr. Roehrig has brought up that maybe should be addressed is whether in some areas we should look at other options. Obviously I don't think we could do it at 6:00 p.m. on Saturdays that would be very difficult. It is also difficult to get facilities on the weekends because if you look at the list of facilities, a lot of these, like you take the gym, the community center, a lot of times they have weekend functions at those Page 23