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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -11 June 21, 2019 anything... that doesn't mean that more can't be done as well. You know, that's something that especially given the amount of time that we have before the election, that this body can get together and meet and talk about ways in which it feels the information could be best transmitted to the most amount of people. So we do have some creative outlets we can go through and then we have more standard mechanisms that we should follow. You know, I do want to note that we kept this in mind and we are preparing you know, a fairly substantial amount of budgeted funds for those purposes, recognizing that those efforts come with some costs. Money well spent... MS. RICE: Right. MR. HENRICKS: To be clear, but yeah, we will have funds available for that. MS. RICE: Okay. MR. HENRICKS: And I would note as well that our Chair has been very active and receptive to requests to appear at functions and other places as well, and that is another option as well... that... through the Chair providing information to groups of people at community events and other types of forums as well, radio, interviews, and different things of that nature. CHR. ADAMS: Thanks Mr. Henricks. Oh... MR. YOSHIMOTO: So one quick addition, so the timeframe is 60 calendar days prior to the election in terms of the financial impact statement. I think that was the question, one of the questions raised. CHR. ADAMS: And in... I would just integrate that all together by saying that as we develop the ballot language we will in August... we will transition from a developer of proposals to a publicizer of those proposals, and it will be important to make sure that we have done what we need to do so that the registered voters of this County know what they are voting on in November 2020, and that may involve some different ideas on how to make sure that the summaries as well as potentially pros and cons are available for folks to do, and it may not be that it is just this Commission's responsibility for pros and cons. It may be that there are other non-partisan objective entities that would be interested in helping with that as well. Commissioner Rice. MS. RICE: Yes, does the League of Women Voters... how do... do they pick up things on their own? MR. HENRICKS: And just to clarify on what Chair Adams said and then I will answer your question, they are free to do whatever they want to do if they are Page 26