MIN CHARTER 2019-03-08 (2018-2020)

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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -9 March 8, 2019 CHR. ADAMS: Okay. Thank you. Commissioner Bergin. MR. BERGIN: First of all, for the fact that we have had that schedule in our hands for 60 days I think was a great advantage at least to me because that gave some long-term planning with those dates that were chosen so I am comfortable with that and I am not uncomfortable with six o'clock, but I would be a five o'clock or five thirty approach to it, but any earlier than that, then I think we are really getting away from people that do work and won't be able to attend. CHR. ADAMS: Thank you. Alright, thank you all for your comments on that. We will, my plan then would be to talk to the staff, but probably go with the five o'clock start and that gives us a little bit of time. We can work if there are issues with folks that are having, are concerned about driving or that kind of thing, then we can definitely work that out. I would also, I have a note here just to note that we have a budget if you would like to stay you know in lodging, particularly you know on the second week right, where we are going to be over... MR. ROEHRIG: Does Na` alehu have a Hilton? CHR. ADAMS: I think it does, the last time I checked. It is only an hour and a half away. Right. But if lodging is a concern, or something that you would be interested in doing, we have a budget that can support that. We knew that that was something that would be a possibility as well, so... MR. ROEHRIG: Can we pay for Uber? CHR. ADAMS: If you can get somebody to Uber you and then you put the reimbursement for it, I would approve it. Alright. Okay, I also would note that we have gone back and forth on trying to figure out how we can record. So I would note that there have been requests for us to make available these meetings on some type of streaming basis, so let me just make this comment for the record. As a government organization, we are, we need, we have a requirement and obligation to abide by Americans with Disability Act, the ADA, so our ability to use things like Facebook streaming, we don't get to do that right? The, and then, the ability to have other organizations that have the, whether they are non-profit or they are commercial and they have the ability to do that kind of work, we are not going to go ask. That would be soliciting them so we can't do that. But if somebody decided they wanted to come to us and said "hey we would like to televise this or record it for streaming later on our video site", you know just as we do in a lot of cases, we would say yes more than likely. So, I would just like to make it... that we are not trying to keep people out from having access to the information that will be available, nobody is going to be able Page 25