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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -11 May 10, 2019 <br />MR. HENRICKS: Correct. <br />CHR. ADAMS: Which would be... we have already run through that procedure a <br />few times, which is if there is a determination, if somebody has a point of order <br />whether or not it's a clarifying amendment or a substantive amendment, the Chair <br />makes a determination and that may be good enough. If it is not good enough <br />then the... and there's objections, that the entire Commission would vote on the <br />Chair's ruling to determine that and if it is determined by the Commission at that <br />particular point, we are talking hypothetically in a parliamentary sense here that it <br />in fact is a clarifying statement then we are on the record as saying that and if they <br />say no, it's a... the Chair is wrong, if it turns out that that is the ruling, then that <br />particular proposal will likely not move forward. <br />Yes, Commissioner Hopkins. <br />MR. HOPKINS: I guess that goes back to the question that we had before, is <br />once we introduce an amendment, well once we introduced a Charter <br />Amendment, we had it there, and then we had all of these testimonies from the <br />community and everything else after the First Reading and several of the things <br />here. So are we basically saying we are going to follow our schedule and ignore <br />the community's testimony on those items? Because it means that we can't do it. <br />CHR. ADAMS: My view is that... it is my view, my view is that we have had a <br />meeting where we had the opportunity to consider the public hearings. We have <br />had a meeting to consider the public hearing. <br />MR. HENRICKS: Two in fact. <br />CHR. ADAMS: Well we have had one... we had the meeting on April 25th... <br />MR. HENRICKS: Correct. <br />CHR. ADAMS: That was the meeting... <br />MR. HENRICKS: Which the purpose of that schedule was to allow... to <br />introduce new items based upon the testimony of the public from the six public <br />hearings that the Commission entertained. <br />CHR. ADAMS: That's right. <br />MR. HENRICKS: And that... I don't know whether or not that testimony <br />provided new proposals... new proposals were submitted for First Reading today. <br />CHR. ADAMS: Alright. <br />Page 15 <br />