2011-02-16 Committee on People with Disabilities Minutes

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Committee on People with Disabilities February 16, 2011 Page 9 J. Navarro reported that last night the Honokaa Business Association hosted Director, Dwight Takamine, and was a well known Senator for many years and has accepted a new position in the Abercrombies Administration and now is the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations. He admits that he knows absolutely nothin able to put into place over the years about persons with disabil employment looks like. And last night when he spoke to the commu community asks questions for obvious reasons, it was really clea State is at all level with all their Adhoc Committees working tor to open doors to actually have employment; and its not that we need more monies statements forward. We need to change minds of who we are and w how easy it is to allow access. This is really important in timty level when our Mayor to the State level and do a full state cost, the econo need to be creative. When we have facts is it easy. But when i and this is our opportunity to really to make a difference. P. De Lima mentioned that the Adhoc Committees need to establish me times so that we all can participate. Dr. Ron wanted to propose Committees establish the meeting dates, what time, where and wha R. Schoen explains that if you have all of this committee go to an Adhoc Commit then you have to provide a Notice to the Public that the Adhoc C otherwise you will have Sunshine Law issues. Adhoc Committees are really smaller committees of a big committee that reports back on what they do. Dont want to discourage the committee from going and participating but this i need to watch. You cannot have more than four (4) people in attendance at a Adhoc Committee meeting. Dr. Ron expressed that he just wanted to make it all available to all th members. The dates of the Adhoc Committee meetings. For example checks the meeting schedule and see that there is a meeting on T Schoen thinks it is fine and everyone can know the dates.