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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -11 June 21, 2019 When it came to the discussion about the detailed elements of financial procedures, as we looked at the structure of the Charter, both when we heard about it from the departments and as we went through it section by section, there was some statements that were made about how there were items in... particularly the financial procedures, that we even heard from the Director of Finance, actually made... she found... well, our conversation was that there was some impact on flexibility because those things were in the Charter and not just in an ordinance. And so, that was the reason that those two particular items were identified as the Commission expressing concern. So, again, that is my view of what I heard and read as I went through the minutes in the preparation of this document. This is going to be the Commission's document, so that clearly... if that is not how the Commission feels about it, then we should have a discussion about that. Commissioner Galimba. MS. GALIMBA: Thank you. If I am not, I mean I haven't done like a study on this, but I don't think there are that many boards and commissions that are actually formed out of the Charter, so in some sense is this a comment that maybe would reflect maybe more on the Code? Is that... would that be a correct assessment to make, that most of the boards and commissions are actually formed not by the Charter, perhaps? MR. HENRICKS: It depends on what we are qualifying as a board or commission. Is a Community Development Plan Action Committee a board or commission? Depends on if you think it is, then it is. If you think it is not, then it's not. Because there are several committees that are titled that way, that operate to provide assistance, advisory assistance and other forms of assistance, to governmental operations. There are also advisory committees that are formed solely by the Mayor, which the Charter provides for. Those count as boards and commissions. If you pull those out of the equation though, I think that just a mathematical majority of boards and commissions are found in the Charter. We have some that are not in the Charter but have been created by ordinance, for instance the Hawai`i County Cultural Resources Commission, the Public Access, Open Space and Natural Resources Commission would be one of those as well. But again, if you... you know, we were talking about I think, somewhere around 35 I think was the count right now, but that includes again, the Community Development Plan Action Committees, it includes some of the, like a Solid Waste Advisory Commission, some things of that nature, that if you consider them a board or commission, than it is about even probably as far as established by the Charter itself actually being embedded in the Charter, or created by ordinance, or by the Mayor as an advisory commission that exists for the term of that Mayor. So, the answer is it depends on how you define a board or commission, as to whether or not that would be a factual statement. CHR. ADAMS: Commissioner Rice. Page 11