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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -9 March 8, 2019 MR. ROEHRIG: Correct. MR. HENRICKS: That is a possibility, but that would require some coordination and cooperation from the staff there. CHR. ADAMS: Okay. So, with the Commission's consensus, the Vice -Chair and I will be meeting with the staff and we will solidify the final information. Again, the idea would be five o'clock start at those locations with the possibility, we still need to make sure that the logistics work, the possibility of allowing Hilo and Kona to have a VTC (Video Teleconferencing Capability) capability, meaning that folks could be on either of those sites on Wednesday and Thursday, the third and the forth of April. And then for the purposes of transportation and or lodging, I can prevail upon Shannon to kind of run that if you have a desire to do something like that or you need some assistance with transportation in particular then please let's work through our Commission Secretary to make sure that we can manage that, thank you. Any other discussion on those communication? Alright, thanks. Communication No. 15, Articles I -XVI of the Charter, any discussion? Alright thank you. UNFINISHED The Chair directed the Commission to proceed to the next order of BUSINESS: business, Unfinished Business. CHR. ADAMS: Let's move on to Unfinished Business. Communication No. 3: Formation of Ad Hoc Committees. I would just note that I will be speaking with our staff to talk about our rules that does indicate the development, or the establishment of an ad hoc committee when we get to the point where we are beginning to write our report of findings and our proposals for the Council, for the County Council. And so, it does call, it does indicate that an ad hoc committee can be established to support that and so it is not something that we need to do right now, but it may be something that comes up in the future. Alright, any other discussion on that communication, on that Unfinished Business Item No. 1? Alrighty, moving on to Item No. 2, Communication No. 35 which transmits CA - 18 as amended, for initial approval. The Proposal to Amend Section 10-16, Public Access, Open Space, and Natural Resources Preservation Maintenance Fund, to transfer administrative duties to the Department of Finance and add permissible uses of the fund, and establish a base amount that must be reserved for awards to stewardship organizations; as submitted by Commissioner Rice. I would note that we postponed our consideration of this Charter amendment proposal. There is a motion on the floor that has been made by Commissioner Rice and seconded by Commissioner Zelko-Schluter to pass Charter Amendment No. 18 as amended on initial approval. I believe our first order of business is to Page 27