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CHR. SIRACUSA: Do we want to have a motion to that respect and ask Mike to go and <br />draft up a point five for us? <br />Mr. Middlesworth moved to amend COMM. 60.3 <br />by adding an additional recommendation to make <br />5.99% the maximum deviation allowed in any one <br />Council district. Seconded by Ms. Ugalde and <br />carried by the following vote: <br />Ayes: Commissioners Carvalho, Kahawaiolaa, <br />Kahui, Kanuha, Melrose, Middlesworth, <br />Poindexter, Ugalde, and Chair Siracusa. <br />Noes: None. <br />Absent: None. <br />MR. UDOVIC: I would like to have Mr. Melrose; maybe you can assist me in doing that if <br />that is all right with you. <br />CHR. SIRACUSA: Do we need to take a little break? <br />MR. UDOVIC: Are there any others? <br />MR. MIDDLESWORTH: One other; I'm not sure this has anything to do with the legal <br />part of it, but when we went through the hearing process, we sat and listened to a lot of <br />people in our districts talk about the plans, and we were not able to respond to them. I <br />would, somewhere in here, suggest that the Commissioners have some kind of a mechanism <br />for community discussions, as opposed to hearings. In other words, maybe a Commissioner <br />in that Commissioner's district to be able to discuss with people so that they could respond <br />to people's concerns and explain the process. Because so many of these people did not <br />understand the process when they came to testify, and if we could do community meetings, <br />that might make some of this stuff a lot more pleasant to people. <br />MR. UDOVIC: I don't think there was any restriction on having a community meeting; we <br />just couldn't have it with board business. <br />MR. MIDDLESWORTH: But we never thought of it. <br />CHR. SIRACUSA: There was a lot of mis- information out there, and some of it was just <br />because people just didn't want to read everything that we put out on the table. Maybe it <br />was intimidating in its quantity. But, also there were just a lot of people who were <br />deliberately spreading information. It would have been nice if we could have been able at <br />least to clarify points of fact; sort of an educational process. When someone said something <br />about, I would really like you to go up to 9.00% so that we could have this or that and then <br />we would have to say, `By the way, we are governed by the County Charter and the <br />Ordinance says," bla, bla, bla, and explain why we couldn't do what they were asking us to <br />