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

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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -11 June 21, 2019 addition, your... you know your rules say three minutes per issue, and I read your rules. CHR. ADAMS: So right before... MS. HECHT: So it should be six minutes. CHR. ADAMS: So right before I spoke, right before you spoke, I said three minutes per agenda... MS. HECHT: Right, and I wasn't going to argue, and... CHR. ADAMS: Excuse me. Excuse me. You were raising a question and so I was explaining to you that... and the rules have been for many of the meetings that we have had, particularly the last I don't know, seven months or so... if it is two or more agenda items, it has been five minutes, without objection. And so, that is what we have been doing. I said that again today as well. MS. HECHT: Okay. So, but your rules were never changed, and I only have one minute more and I am just requesting that I could talk about your process because I think... CHR. ADAMS: I would just ask you to summarize. MS. HECHT: I think it is very confusing. Okay. So please clarify your process going forward. I have talked to three Council members and they don't understand it either. I think the Council gets 30 days to respond to your Charter amendment, but what happens after that? The Council can come back with their recommendations, then you decide whether to accept or reject the amendments, then they can recall or take back their proposed amendments, or the County Council can also decide to put their preferred amendments on the ballot for 2020. Please clarify the process and link the process with the timeline with exact dates. Thank you. CHR. ADAMS: Thank you. I understand we also have another testifier. Thank you. SUSAN DURSIN: Commenting on findings. MS. DURSIN: I am Susan Dursin from Captain Cook and I am just giving you comments today having been here previously a number of times and spoken in favor of the PONC amendments. But in any case, today I just wanted to speak about the findings because I... reading this through I was troubled by the sentence that says "the Commission recognized that the Charter is meant to be a broad document to govern the operation of County government. The Commission has also expressed concern that the continued formation of boards and commissions Page 4