08-07-17 Regular Session Minutes

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Mr. Goodenow: So it will be on another agenda and we're gonna pick up where we left off which will be the motion will be pending which will be to reject the petition... Mr. Murai: Petitions...rather. Mr. Adams: We're only talking about 07 at the moment. Mr. Goodenow: Oh yes. Ms. Kahakalau: We're only talking about 07...that's the only one that I read. Mr. Goodenow: So we're on 07 only. Ms. Kahakalau: So we have a second to that incidental.... Mr. Goodenow: Motion to continue. Mr. Robinson: Madame Chair if I may...what bothers me about this petition is it is all based upon what he reads in the paper. If I stayed at home and every time I read something in the paper that I thought was wrong...and then I filed an ethics violation...I'd have to hire somebody to just file these for me because every time you read the paper and every time you see something you don't like...I've been violated ethically...you know the whole bases of this petition is what's been read in the paper...it's just ridicules...anyway I wanted to say that...it's sitting inside me if I don't get it out...I'll explode. Ms. Kahakalau: Thank you and I have to say I feel the same way...I've been miss- quoted in the papers more than quoted correctly you know...personally...and even if the statement that was quoted is such a vague statement...it's not an absolute statement so I feel very strongly too that you know at one point we have to look at when is it a waste of the tax payer's time and money and I feel sometimes very...almost upset that there is nothing in the code that prevents people from filing or at least sanctions them if it is found out that these petitions are in fact wasting tax payer's money which we currently don't have in our statute. Mr. Adams: So Madame Chair if I may...may I? Ms. Kahakalau: Yes please. Mr. Adams: So I appreciate both of those viewpoints...I don't agree with them...part of why we have this process is to,allow for citizens that 10