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HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSIONPage 15 of 104 <br />RAY: Wait, wait. An organizational meeting, at this stage and, you know, we appreciate but we’re not <br />soliciting input on, you know, changes to the charter at this time. You know, this process is going to be <br />going on for -. <br />ROSS: Mr. Chairman? <br />RAY: The next 16 months, and you’re going to have ample opportunity to, you know, to have input -. <br />ROSS: I understand. <br />RAY: To this committee. <br />ROSS: I won’t have a chance to be here each and every time and I don’t plan to. <br />RAY: Okay. <br />ROSS: But I want to point to your Item No. 8, New Business. You’re going to speak about goals and <br />objectives, and that is why I have some suggestions, because you’re going to speak about it in ten <br />minutes. So if you put it on your agenda, and I was very careful looking at the agenda before I put this <br />down, otherwise I thought, oh, let them swim, you know, they’ll learn to swim. But I want to point out a <br />couple of things that are of real importance that you may not come up with by asking around and so on. <br />I would like to see, for instance, and it’s just a suggestion, to have something in the charter about <br />shoreline setback. The Council has just seen fit to reduce it from 50-foot to 30-foot. On Maui, which is <br />much smaller than this Island, it is 300-foot. It is a very important thing. Of course, the shoreline setback <br />varies here and there, but within limits it should be more than 50-foot that we had in it, and certainly <br />more than the 30 that the County Council wants to put in it. <br />HERKES: So is that a definite recommendation that you’re making? <br />ROSS: I would like to see 200-foot, basically. <br />HERKES: Is that what you -? <br />ROSS: Where it’s possible. <br />HERKES: Is that your recommendation, 200 feet? Because I’m taking the minutes for this meeting. <br />ROSS: Yes. <br />HERKES: And I want to know if that’s what you want me to put in there. <br />ROSS: Yes. I would say -. <br />HERKES: Two hundred feet. You recommend 200 feet. <br />ROSS: I don’t want to go as far as -. <br />HERKES: Shoreline. <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 3-17-99.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />