MIN CHARTER 2019-04-01 (2018-2020) - Public Hearing

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Hawai`i County Charter Commission — Public Hearing April 1, 2019 CHR. ADAMS: Thanks. If you could summarize. If you would summarize. MS. SIRACUSA: So if you still have time please look into that matter and search for a solution. Thank you. CHR. ADAMS: Great. Thank you so much. Mr. Olsen. Ms.... Diga Kern? Yes, sir. Go ahead sir. If you could use the microphone please. JON OLSEN: Proposal No. CA -8 and CA -17 commenting, Proposal No. CA -9 in support, and Proposal No. CA -12 in opposition. MR. OLSEN: Thank you. CA -8 composition term of Council members. I think two years is appropriate. There is more than a few of us I think that wish that the presidency was a two-year term, but anyway that gives the people and they should continue to run. They should be running 24/7. That should be true of all politicians. Getting feedback from the people who voted them in. The staff issue for the PONC fund, yes. There should be a staff position. At least one as a minimum. As for the discipline of Council members, that should be left to the voters as it is now. If you are unhappy with your Council person, you can start a recall petition and remove them. I don't think... if you think this through slowly, the idea that the Council can find a member who they don't particularly agree with and come to a majority to have them removed irrespective of what the voters in their district think of them, is a really bad idea. Let's see, where did I leave off? I am sorry that was CA -12, Discipline of Council Members. As for CA -17, the Establishment of a Disaster and Emergency Fund, I have to admit that I always thought that there was one. And in fact when Harry was the Civil Defense Administrator, I know that he did emergency planning. And he did disaster planning prior to the eruptive cycle Kalapana. And he relied on that document to see him through on that, and so, if that has ceased to be the methodology then we need to get back to it. In Civil Defense planning there is a thing called a table top. The Director of Civil Defense picks a disaster, calls someone relevant from each agency, questions them, sends them back to their agency to investigate how they would respond. And apparently this is not happened for a very, very long time. I was surprised to find out. I live out in Leilani Estates, or did... and the people that came to help did the best they can, they could, but it was clearly not working from a plan. They were shooting from the hip. There is a thing and it may be interesting for you to find out. There is a thing called an After Action Report which I understand has been circulated up to the Mayor. You might want to get a copy and look at it. I Page 6