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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -9 March 8, 2019 facilities and so that is a whole other issue in terms of scheduling on different days, so... because they have a lot of daytime activities. Thank you. CHR. ADAMS: Thank you Commissioner Todd. Commissioner Rice. MS. RICE: I am wondering if carpooling would help Commissioner Roehrig. Because then he wouldn't have to drive at night if that is an issue. I have been very kindly allowed to travel with Commissioner Bergin so time is not (inaudible). CHR. ADAMS: Okay. I appreciate that comment as well. So, let me just run through this first of all. So we identified the locations, we had asked for Commissioner, we had given Commissioners the opportunity if you had some specific places, we had given you the opportunity to provide those, and we had also heard from Council members about suggested places. I would indicate that there, we have had some communications, some of you have seen them where there had been a question about Waimea, so for Kohala we are going to be in Hawi, I mean, we are going to be in Kapa`au, and for Hamakua, we will be in Honoka`a. So we appreciated the offer from Waimea, but those seem to be places that made sense to provide us with places that would be available for those districts as well. So, not seeing anybody having any issues with the locations, the dates themselves we tried to stay away from Saturdays. That was based on conversations that we had here as members of the Commission, the 11 of us, and then on the times, the times we have talked about, but I would tell you that the times was based on, the time of six o'clock was based on conversations that I and the staff had when we were looking at precisely the question that Commissioner Saquing asked Mr. Henricks which is "when are you going to get the most people" kind of idea, trying to do it you know mid-day didn't seem to be, mid-day can be great for some folks, but it is very difficult to folks that are working. Six o'clock you would think would be able to provide for a lot of folks but we also understand the imposition that it is on those that don't drive necessarily and so the impacts on those folks as well. I am open to changing that time. You know, maybe it is a mid to late afternoon start, I wonder on the impact on the logistics of that, so if we said something like three o'clock or four o'clock in these various locations, would that... I would like some discussion on the impacts that that would have. Yeah, Commissioner Saquing. MS. SAQUING: I think again to honor our working community who are unable to attend these hearings, that we should look at maybe a timeframe of maybe starting at 5:30 p.m., kind of a happy medium between five and six, to allow them to attend, to allow the Commissioners to get to and from and also allow time for the meeting to actually exist, so that is my suggestion is starting it at 5:30 p.m. Page 24