1999-03-17 Charter Commission Minutes

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HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSIONPage 21 of 104 ROSS: Okay? Nail down the police, general. If you want to know more, I’ll come and give you a whole speech on police. HERKES: I’m sure. ROSS: You have to make this a little more specific in the charter than it is now, and that goes for the Police Commission, too, because the Police Commission is holding kangaroo courts where the public is not allowed and the minutes are never -, or the minutes of those hearings, whatever, are never given out to the public. HERKES: Do you have a recommendation? ROSS: They don’t do that. I think it’s wrong. HERKES: Is your recommendation to give the minutes for the Police Commission out to the public? ROSS: After they are not actual, of actual interest anymore in a court procedure or whatever, yes, they can be given free because that is what Chapter 91 and Chapter 92 of State law say. HERKES: Thank you. ??? Excuse me, as a point of information, excuse me, Mr. Ross, how much longer do you have to go? HERKES: One minute. ??? How much longer will -? HERKES: One minute. ROSS: Okay. HERKES: That’s how much longer. ROSS: I’ve had this -. I’m almost through. HERKES: That’s right. ROSS: I think that you have a conflict of interest in your minutes where Attorney Bess is the -, was mentioned as the leading man for the three-man committee for attorney search. I don’t agree with that. I think it ought to be an outsider who looks for an attorney for you because I -, not that I don’t like Mr. Bess, I don’t even know him, but the point is he can come up with recommendations of all his friends without you knowing it, so this is a clear conflict of interest. HERKES: I know who your friends are. Do you feel that way about the secretarial position, also? I have a lot of friends that are secretaries. ROSS: No, the secretary -. HERKES: I have a lot of friends that are secretaries. file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 3-17-99.html7/1/2011