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

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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -11 June 21, 2019 is the date that we are using as the submission date. Then the Council has 30 days to come back with any alternatives. So they don't change the proposals. They can submit alternatives to those proposals and only in the... only in the area of the Charter that those proposals are associated with. And so we will know by then if there are any proposed alternatives. Then if there are no alternatives, we owe to the Clerk within 30 days, our report. And then we can then begin the process of proceeding to draft ballot language. And then the other requirements such as public notice and... in newspapers and financial impact statements that the Department of Finance will have to do, and all of those kinds of things. We have the date here which is August 26 date by which the Charter Commission must either accept or reject the alternatives submitted by the County Council. We will try and do that before then. That would be our inclination. The idea being that we also want to give the Council the opportunity if there are any alternatives and we have rejected those alternatives, we want to give the Council the opportunity to then decide whether they are going to recall those alternatives or not. If they do, then it is as if it never happened. If they don't, then they get submitted along with our work, to the Clerk. Sure, Commissioner Rice. Remember your mic please. MS. RICE: I just hate to be an idiot here, but I understand we submit the report as drafted and approved today hopefully, and then they have 30 days to look at it, and if they send back alternatives, then do those alternatives if they are just a sentence or two to replace something in one of our amendments, do we accept that and then that is inserted into our amendment in lieu of what we already had? How does that work? CHR. ADAMS: So if there are alternatives that come forward, we would revert to... this is actually a good question that I was going to bring up as a part of the conversation. The... one we would consider the alternative. If we decide to take the alternative and incorporate it into the proposal, then that proposal would be amended and that would be the proposal that moves forward out of the Commission. MS. RICE: Got it. CHR. ADAMS: If we don't accept the alternative, then we note that we reject it and send that information back to the Council, and the Council has the option of either recalling it, which makes the alternative as if it never existed, or not recalling it, they have 10 days to make that decision and then if they haven't made a decision in 10 days, then it is as if they are saying we want it to go forward to the voters. MS. RICE: Okay. I get it. I just wanted to make sure. CHR. ADAMS: Commissioner Galimba. Page 6