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

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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -15 July 10, 2020 MR. HENRICKS: By August 20th of this year. CHR. ADAMS: Okay, by August 20th. There are two dates, one is in HRS (Hawai`i Revised Statutes) and the other one is in our Charter. The August 20th is the earlier of those dates. MR. HENRICKS: The August 20th is for the ballot language to be submitted to the Chief Elections Officer of the State. CHR. ADAMS: Okay. MR. HENRICKS: The two dates that you are referring to are for requirements to publish the full text of the proposed amendments and brief digest in two newspapers of circulation, and those dates are 45 days before the General Election pursuant to the Charter, and 21 days before the General Election pursuant to HRS (Hawai`i Revised Statutes). CHR. ADAMS: And so for the purposes, for the Commission's understanding, once we have finished our work with the ballot questions, then we will... we already, the Charter Amendment Proposals themselves, the substance of those are complete. However, in the ballot question process, the ballot question development process, we did consolidate some of the charter amendments that were seen and provided to the Council that they then reviewed and then that we then voted on back in August and provided to the Clerk. So those numbers and the consolidation of that will then be finalized in one of our meetings probably likely the next one, and then that will allow the Clerk to go through the process of making sure that we meet our responsibilities of getting the full text out to the voters 45 days and 21 days in front of the November 3rd election. Okay, so I just wanted to let the Commission know all about that. We will do what we are supposed to do in terms of the votes and all of those kinds of things. I would entertain a motion, it's... I am informed by our staff that it is probably not necessary but I think it is probably useful for the record, that the Commission authorize the Chair to spend the funds necessary to conduct the educational aspects that is our responsibility under the Charter and the HRS (Hawai`i Revised Statutes). So I would entertain a motion to authorize the Chair to conduct that... those activities and expend the funds necessary that is in our budget. MS. ZELKO-SCHLUETER: So moved. MS. RICE: Could you repeat that. We didn't get that. It was kind of muddled. CHR. ADAMS: Okay. There being in Kona. MS. RICE: In Kona. Page 6