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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -14 August 8, 2019 proposals, those don't get changed. What's in here is what's in here. They will be voted on by the voters but the language that goes on to the ballot is not this language. So we need to develop language that is...explicates this information and that would be what the voters see and what the voters would vote aye or naye on. MS. RICE: So do they...they don't see the actual amendment? CHR. ADAMS: They'll have... we will have the opportunity to provide that information to them but the actual... correct me if I am wrong... as a matter of fact why don't you go ahead. MR. HENRICKS: It's time to talk about this. MS. RICE: Right. We did before, but I just need clarification. MR. HENRICKS: No problem. It's been a while hasn't it. There will be voter education and there's a requirement by law to print the full text of the amendments in publications and newspapers and what not, and we are going to do a very strident campaign to do so. But as Chair Adams has pointed out, what will be on the ballot will be the questions that will be formed, or excuse me, the questions that this Commission will approved, and what we are undertaking right now is to make a subset of this Commission to do that work and bring those proposed ballot questions back to the Commission for further review, perhaps modification, and then approval. And then this body then essentially decides how the ballot will read. MS. RICE: Got you. MR. HENRICKS: And by and large you know, that will be what the people will see. "Do you want the Charter to be changed this way, yes or no." MS. RICE: So it's a yes or no... on the ballot? MR. HENRICKS: Yes or no. Yes or no. CHR. ADAMS: On the ballot it's a yes or no. MS. RICE: The um.. prior we had a submittal which we all voted on, on the various amendments. And you... somebody had... I think you had done... MR. HENRICKS: Summary. MS. RICE: Done a little summary, yeah. Will that be similar? No. Page 17