MIN CHARTER 2019-06-21 (2018-2020)

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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -11 June 21, 2019 CHR. ADAMS: Thanks Mr. Henricks. MS. RICE: I would agree. It is a huge volume of detail and I think for all the Commissioners, I could probably speak that we appreciate the work that the Chairman has done, as well as the staff, in presenting this to us today. So Mahalo nui. CHR. ADAMS: Thanks Commissioner Rice. So having given you a plan forward to discuss this particular Communication and the report found under, I would ask if there is any conversation having to do with the transmittal letter that will be signed by me to Chair Chung of the Council? So the way it works Hilo, is I will be looking at you, if you are looking at me, then I will wait and ask you. If you are not looking at me, I am assuming you don't have anything to say. Alright. So let's move on then from that Item. The page underneath the cover, which is the signature page that we would all sign, is there any comments on that? Alright, seeing none, we will move into Table of Contents. Any questions or comments on the Table of Contents? Seeing none, move on to the introduction page, which is page one. Any comments, modifications, concerns? Introduction...alright, not seeing anything, we will move on from that. Page two is about the Commission. Comments? Alright, we will move into page three and four, which are the Commission activities, findings, and recommendations. Do we have any comments, modifications, concerns, having to do with this? Commissioner Galimba? MS. GALIMBA: So yes. I just wanted to ask about the language brought up by the testifier concerning boards and commissions and deleterious effect of reducing governmental flexibility. I am assuming you are the author, or... is that the case? CHR. ADAMS: I am the author of this. I am the author of the Activities, Findings, Recommendations, and Conclusions. Would you like me to answer why I put those in there? MS. GALIMBA: Okay. Okay, great. CHR. ADAMS: So the purpose of putting those in there is that as I went through the minutes of our conversations, several times we had proposals that came forward that had to do with the presentation of boards and commissions, for example when we talked about having a Climate Change Commission, and in the process of that conversation, we had some discussion about concern about there being boards and commissions that as we added, it was an additional impact on departments. We then asked department heads, deputy heads about that and they concurred with that concern as well. And my... when I took all of that into... under advisement, it appeared to me that that was an item that the Commission as a whole ultimately decided that was something that they were concerned about. Page 10