MIN CHARTER 2020-07-10 (2018-2020)

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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -15 July 10, 2020 As far as the time is concerned, how did 10 o'clock work for everybody? Kona is that good for you, Commissioners? MS. RICE: Yes. It is fine for me. MR. ROEHRIG: Okay. CHR. ADAMS: Okay. Thanks Kit. Alright, so then our time would be 10:00 a.m., assuming that we have the facility at that time. I guess we do. That's good, so we will say 10 o'clock. Now, I would caution that next Friday will not be done in 45 minutes... or on the 24th. Right, it is going to take a little bit of time, it is quite conceivable that we will have testimony... more testimony than we had today, but maybe not, you never know. But I think that we will end up going through the ballot questions, making sure that they are the way that we want them, the way we have gone through the Charter Amendment Proposals, if my mind can go back that far. The other thing that I would ask, is that as you take a look at the ballot questions, two things I should mention, the Charter Amendment Proposals have been revised under the recommendation of the ad hoc committee, obviously they haven't been revised completely for real because the Commission has to make that decision, right. So that will be part of the process the next time we meet... is voting on that if indeed we follow the ad hoc committee's recommendations. The other... but, I should mention that the revision is only in the ordering and the consolidation. It is not in the substance of the proposals themselves. So we will not be accepting recommendations or modifications, or amendments to the substance right, it is just the consolidation piece. So let me just ask our esteemed attorney if I am wrong in any of that. MR. YOSHIMOTO: You are correct in your assessment. I would just caution that we not go into any further detail regarding the report because the report speaks for itself. But you are correct in terms of the procedures and what we can and cannot do. CHR. ADAMS: Right. Thank you... for the cautionary note as well. And then on the other procedural aspect, the ballot questions themselves, to the extent that as you take a look at them there may be things that you want to have the Commission consider as a modification of some kind. Please if you can, it is not a requirement but it is helpful that you communicate with staff so that they can have something written up already as opposed to us trying to do the writing here. Again, not a requirement, but it does make things move a little bit more quickly while we are in the process of an actual meeting. Page 15