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HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSIONPage 16 of 104 ROSS: Maui, because maybe next time they will change their charter, but let’s say 200-foot, you know, ideally. Where you have houses already built on the shore, you know, you can’t, but -. HERKES: Thank you. ROSS: Okay. SANTANGELO: Mr. Chairman? Excuse me, Henry, I rise to a point of personal privilege here. As I understood it, our rules are that statements from the public have to address the agenda. We’ve got a year ahead of us, and I think we’ve got to set some precedence of those rules. If this is where you want to go, I’ll support you in that, but I don’t see where Henry is going right now is germane to goals and objectives. These are specific changes to the charter. Henry, we had planned to get somewhere around there in June. We’re still trying to get our organization together so that we can start to move on these kinds of things. And if we make exceptions here, are we going to make exceptions at every single meeting? I’ve seen the Council go totally haywire because we adhered to -, we didn’t adhere to our rules, so I bring that up as a -. ROSS: Okay. But I want to point out -. SANTANGELO: This is to the Chairman. ROSS: Yeah, I want to point out -. SANTANGELO: Mr. Ross. ROSS: That I was asked to be specific. I didn’t say, you know, I didn’t start out to say it must be this or that. I was very general, and I want to keep it general. RAY: Right. But, okay, the -. ROSS: And I’m still speaking to an item on the agenda. RAY: Well, the item on this agenda, goals and objectives, are the general goals and objectives in terms of the process we want to undertake in terms of organizing, you know, our approach. ROSS: Then you should -. RAY: Not particular items we’re looking at, specific items is not what we’re discussing here. ROSS: Well -. RAY: And we probably won’t get there -. ROSS: Yeah, Mr. Chairman, I won’t be long, believe me, because I said I’ll run through this. Now if you don’t interrupt me, I can just read them down and that is all; then it’s in your minutes. I want to call your attention to the fact that you did, in that case, if you have -, if you find fault with me, then you ought to be more specific on your agenda. Chapter 92, the Sunshine Law, says the public has a right to know and the public has a right to speak. Now if you start, you know, turning that off already, yes, the public will have -, will not be interested and say, you know -. file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 3-17-99.html7/1/2011