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Hawaii County Charter Commission -16 July 24, 2020 maintained the numbering system previously and so the proposals then would be in a sequential, without any numbers missing, order. So at this time we have the proposals in front of you, does anyone have any comments that they would like to make on any of these ballot questions? Kona, do you have any comments? MS. RICE: No. We're good. CHR. ADAMS: Alright. Not hearing any... oh, I am sorry. So let's bring that down to you so you can... there you go. MS. GALIMBA: Okay. So this is kind of a... not necessarily relating to 53, no it is relating to 53.2, but, okay, so... I just had a question about sort of the... what is this called? CHR. ADAMS: The text? MS. GALIMBA: Yeah, the Ramseyer. Is this... is this just for us, or does this go out... like what is the outreach on this? CHR. ADAMS: So the question is for Mr. Henricks. MR. HENRICKS: So, the proposals themselves, which are not the questions, they are what you described, the full text of the Charter with the Ramseyer format bracketing, strikethrough, underscoring, is the legal document that when the questions are voted in the affirmative, how the Charter will be revised, that full text will be provided to the public at least, well, two times, through newspaper publishings in the West Hawaii Today and the Hawaii Tribune Herald per law as required. We would also have the full text available in normally what would be our polling places which we don't have this year, so those would be available at our voter service centers. They will also be available at our Clerk's offices, or excuse me, not Clerk's offices, our Elections offices in Hilo and also in Kona. And also at this time I have been talking to Chair Adams and also legal counsel and will enter into discussions as we get closer to the general elections, with our State Elections office and our Elections Division about how we can provide notice in each ballot package that goes out in the mail, of how to review this full text. We would not be able to provide the full text with the ballot package. It would consume too much space being that it is 30 some odd pages, but as you... I don't know, most of you received your ballot packages, there is information in there that supplements the ballot. Instructional information, educational information, and we will work to find a way to present a link so that people who have access to the internet could then view the full text in a convenient manner and perhaps also a Page 8