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HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSIONPage 31 of 104 know, figuring out who they might contact or kind of gather information and get a feel for this stuff because, you know, there are people around and accessible. HIGASHI: Somebody who would be computer literate and modern-day technology literate. RAY: Yeah. Eddie. HIGASHI: Would be somebody that kind of deal with that. ALONZO: Mr. Chairman, part of the secretary’s job, you know, to notify the public our meeting place. Like Mr. Ross said, he mentioned about TV, try to find something, some information about television coverage, notice in the radios. Sometimes newspaper can be misleading or some people don’t listen, I mean, have newspaper, but they listen to radio. I think radio is a more effective communication towards the people out there, especially in the rural area where the paper delivery is limited and they only by radio. RAY: And so we make sure we explore all those. HERKES: So let’s say two-hour -, for a two-hour meeting, I would have a fit if anybody we hired took more than two hours to do the minutes. So -, and for a voice mail and email, I would think one hour a day would take care of answering email and generating email. So let’s say that’s 30 hours a month and four hours for the meeting minutes, to go to the meeting. And probably another two hours for travel time, so we got to build some travel time in there, wherever this person lives. So we’re talking about those kinds of things, and that’s -, maybe we have 20, 40, 60, 80 hours a month to work with. That leaves another 50 hours a month to do research. Public relations are tough to start and easy to sustain, so once you generate those press releases and those PSAs, you’ve got your line, you’ve got your fax modem set up, you just need to write them and you push a button and they go out. And you can do that. Often you arrange for interviews with charter members, you can -, and then the public accesses probably take some arranging and setting up, but they do most of that. So, you know, in that 50 hours that you have left a month -. RAY: Where -? HERKES: I would think you could generate that. RAY: Now run by the hours again, where you’re going. HERKES: Nineteen hours a week. RAY: Okay, so that’s -. HERKES: Right? RAY: Your 80. HERKES: Twenty, forty, sixty, that’s eighty. RAY: So where’s your other 50? HERKES: So that’s what’s left is 50 after you do the voice mail and email of 30. file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 3-17-99.html7/1/2011