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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -11 May 10, 2019 MS. RICE: Okay. At which time we vote to approve it for Second Reading or not. So those are at... June 7th our choices are vote to approve it or vote to not approve it. Is that correct? MR. HENRICKS: Well, essentially a singular motion which is to pass on the Second and Final Reading. You vote yes or no. MS. RICE: Correct. CHR. ADAMS: You can bring amendments. MR. HENRICKS: You can bring amendments as we talked about with Commissioner Hopkins. CHR. ADAMS: But we have already identified... if it is a substantive amendment... MS. RICE: It has to have a second, another meeting. MR. HENRICKS: That's what the rules say. CHR. ADAMS: If it was going to be put forward. If it was going to move forward. MS. RICE: Okay. Thank you. I really was not clear on the purpose of those. MR. HENRICKS: That's okay and I think that at that point in time you know, we can cross some bridges as much as they appear. You know, we could talk more about other options. CHR. ADAMS: Sure. Commissioner Hopkins. MR. HOPKINS: And then... if then Council has the... once they get our thing, that they have the opp... they have the option of changing one and sending it back to us if they show wish. CHR. ADAMS: So what will happen is that once we have submitted it, they have 30 days to provide to... to provide alternatives right? And it will be alternatives associated with and to some degree it's really up to the Council to identify... it's it's not predetermined at least my review of it, it is not predetermined in the HRS. They can take a look at what we have provided and then they have the ability to identify alternatives that would modify what we have done or the area that we have provided, you know the Section that we've been... proposed an amendment to, and then it would come back to us after that deadline and we have the ability to Page 20