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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -11 May 10, 2019 <br />MS. RICE: Okay. I got it. <br />MR. YOSHIMOTO: I am sorry. That's why I was under the impression the <br />Commission understood that everything needed to be done by the 7th so the 7th <br />would just be a vote on everything on Second Reading, so that was clear. All the <br />amendments should have been in by now and this should have been it. That is <br />what I thought was clear, but if the Commission wants to go down for further <br />amendments, it will put limitations as to time right, because... <br />CHR. ADAMS: Right so, I mean, we have... here we are on the 10th of May, the <br />idea was is that we had a couple of meeting in June, the 7th and the 21st, the idea <br />being that we could consider all of the... that we would be able to get the First <br />Report... the First Reading Report to us, have the opportunity to look at that, <br />consider all of those items, I mean we have got probably between 20 and 25 <br />Charter Amendments that we will take a look at in whatever draft form that they <br />are at. At that particular meeting we will probably have public testimony, it is <br />going to be a great meeting. <br />If the idea is, is that we are going to... that we need to toss another meeting in <br />there, we are all of a sudden... our timeline is... yeah, exactly. So the 7th unless <br />the Commission comes back and says "nope, we need to add another meeting so <br />that we can do this." That puts us into a real... I mean the next meeting that we <br />are going to have is... is... going to be to discuss the items that have gone through <br />First Reading. If there is an amendment and we anticipate that we are going to <br />have substantive amendments for that and the Commission wants to roll through <br />those, the rules are clear, we will have to hold over for another meeting that <br />would not be the meeting that we vote on the entire packet. So that's... instead of <br />two meetings, one on the 7th and one on the 21st, we would have to have three <br />meetings that allows us to do that. <br />MS. RICE: Okay, and that is what our rules state. <br />CHR. ADAMS: That's the rules. <br />MS. RICE: Okay, but the problem with that is, what is the point of the June 7th <br />meeting? <br />CHR. ADAMS: To go through all of the... <br />MS. RICE: But... so we go through them, so what? <br />MR. HENRICKS: Because you have a lot of... 20 to 25 proposals that are First <br />Reading that are not... you have not essentially adopted and said this is going on <br />the ballot. The June 7th meeting is very important because you are going to take <br />everything you pass on First Reading and finalize it and say "this is what we are <br />submitting to the electorate." It is very important. That's the purpose. <br />Page 18 <br />