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Hawaii County Charter Commission -16 July 24, 2020 Mr. Henricks? Is that what we are doing? Right, and so we will deal with item two in Unfinished Business, that's Communication No. 53.2. The Report and Recommendations of the Ad Hoc Committee Established to Develop Charter Amendment Proposal Summaries and Ballot Questions, Propose Consolidation to Charter Amendment Proposals and Propose Renumbering of Charter Amendment Proposals for Sequential Ordering. There is a... this was postponed by motion on July 101h, at our meeting on July 101h that there is a motion on the floor made by Commissioner Bergin and seconded by Commissioner Zelko-Schlueter to approve the recommendations and adopt the report of the Ad Hoc Committee as presented in Communication No. 53.3. I should note the reason that we are taking these out of order according to the agenda is that whatever decisions are made on the ballot questions, would likely have an impact if they are other than what we already... that's in the recommendation, would have an impact on the Communication in 53.3 which are the proposal summaries. So it just seems to make sense, let's get the questions squared away and then we can deal with the summaries, so that is why we are doing it in that order. Okay, is there a need for me to do anything... we've postponed, do we need to bring it back into... MR. HENRICKS: The motion's on the floor. CHR. ADAMS: So the motion's on the floor and it has been seconded, and so we can start discussion on the... on the item. So we have 53.2 which is the discussion, which is the discussion of the variety of ballot language. With the permission of the mover, Commissioner Bergin, or was it you?, No, it was Commissioner Zelko, hold on. Yes, with the permission of Commissioner Bergin, if I may, I am just going to roll through these proposals... these ballot questions that is... briefly and then open up for discussion. Is that okay? Okay. So what we have in discussion on this motion is that we have ... we have 16 proposals that have been provided by the... recommended by the ad hoc committee. The first proposal is one that takes six of the Charter Amendment Proposals that we approved back last year and combines them. And then those would correct... the idea is those correct certain technical, linguistic, and grammatical issues in the Charter and so, it just seemed to the committee that it would make sense to bring those together. And then we have Charter Amendment... and then the rest of the proposals are individual Charter Amendments and we have just put the numbers in order because we had some Charter Amendments that we did not pass, but we Page 7