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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -11 June 21, 2019 Section 13, Severability, this was actually initially about an ordinance. If you went back and you took a look at our previous work, these particular paragraphs identified if any provision of this ordinance or the application thereof... and that was used three times, and ordinance has been replaced appropriately with the phrase "Charter proposal" and that is the case through all 21 of the Charter amendments listed here. And then 14 talks about when the amendment takes effect. There is I think ones where that is not the case. That is the amendment takes effect at a particular date in one of these. So... but the rest of them are upon approval of the electorate. So there is the... the other piece of this is that as we move through, as we get into August and we take a look at what has come back from the Council if anything, and then we take a look at what these proposals are, we will have the opportunity to determine if in fact there needs to be some that need to be put together, and at that point then, those numbers, the Charter amendment numbers would be more accurate. And so right now we have one CA -1 through CA -30. When we do the proposals, we will take those numbers and we will make them one through 21. Okay? That's understood there in Hilo as well? Great. Okay. So everything below the line, on page five you have CA -1, Draft 3, Relating to District Residency Requirement Language and then you have a paragraph, and then you have a line across the page, and then you have Charter Amendment number, and then the "Be it Enacted by the People of the County of Hawai`i." We are not talking today about anything below the line. That was done last meeting, second and final reading. Okay? Alright. Everything that we are talking about is above the line from CA -1 through CA -30 whatever the draft, if there is a draft involved. So on CA -1, Draft 3, Relating to District Residency Requirement Language, page 5, are there any comments, additions, modifications, to the paragraph that you see there? Not seeing any comments, let's move on to CA -2, on page 10. CA -2, Draft 2, Relating to Council Meeting Locations, you will note that I say in nearly all of these paragraphs that "the Commission finds", that's because in our general Commission's Activities, Findings, and Recommendations, we refer that our findings per item will be... and in the paragraph of each of these Charter Amendment Proposals, so that is why you will find that phrase in each of these paragraphs. It should be understood that each of these paragraphs is not something that will be presented to the voters. This is part of the report that goes to the Council for their own explication. Is there anything on CA -2, Draft 2 from the Commissioners? Alright. Moving to CA -4, Draft 2, on page 12, Relating to the Department of Research and Development. Commissioner Rice. Page 17