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INTRODUCTION OF COMMISSIONERSPage 18 of 29 <br />RAY: I guess Kevin’s point is, is that we set up a responsible communication system so that <br />the public has access to the commission, pretty much full time, they can get through. <br />BALOG: Yes, well, someone they can get, not to the commission itself but have a place where <br />they can get information. In other words like John used a country bumpkin term. Well, <br />someone from either Hamakua or Pahala or wherever, has a question about something that <br />they read in the paper. Where do they call? Who do they call? There has to be some place <br />centralized that they can call and get information out of. And I think that’s important because a <br />lot of times people come to hearings. "Oh I didn’t know this". And then when you tell them they <br />say "Oh well, gee, if I would have known I wouldn’t have taken off of work". Or, "I tried calling <br />around, I couldn’t get nothing out of anybody". So just for the body to be user friendly to the <br />public. <br />RAY: Rudy, do you have any idea how that’s worked in the past, in terms of how the <br />commission was set up, their communications and who was the general contact point. Using <br />your office is always a fall back. <br />LEGASPI: I can’t recall, but basically, it’s up to the members of the Commission. <br />RAY: Okay, I think Kevin makes a good point. Whatever we can do, to make things more user <br />friendly will ally a lot of suspicion. <br />SANTANGELO: Mr. Chairman, it doesn’t have to be available 24 hours a day. <br />BALOG: No, I’m not saying 24 hours. <br />SANTANGELO: So if we have our secretary, part of that search could be Monday, <br />Wednesday, Friday or Monday, Wednesday between the hours of, so that they could call in for <br />information. <br />RAY: And I don’t want to volunteer this out of turn but the HLPC office might be a vehicle as far <br />as, I don’t want it to be an undue burden in terms of supplying a bunch of information and <br />whatever but just as far as having all that information available in a place that people could call <br />in regards to meetings or whatever what’s going on. We’ll just have a little fact sheet there, <br />whatever, that we keep updating, that’s a possibility. Because I don’t have a sense of what this <br />secretary, where they’re going to be and how much they’re gong to be available and how all <br />that’s going to work. And maybe there are other suggestions. How does the commission work? <br />Who calls, when somebody wants to know something about the commission, who do they call? <br />BALOG: In our case, they call the Planning Department. <br />IRVINE: Yes, on the Board of Appeals or the Planning Board or something. They always had <br />staff. <br />BALOG: It’s the same like the Liquor. The Liquor Commission would call the Liquor Control. <br />Police would call, if you want to know about Police Commission, call Police. All I’m trying to <br />say, I heard it so much serving on the Planning Commission. We gotta be able to get ahold of <br />you. I don’t mean get ahold of us, because that’s one thing I didn’t do. I didn’t want my number <br />public and I didn’t give it out. You want to talk to me, send a letter, it’ll go through proper <br />procedure and it’ll get to me. But some of my ideas is we’re going to have to set up a place <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 2-20-99.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />