1999-03-17 Charter Commission Minutes

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HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSIONPage 9 of 104 BALOG: That was the intent. SANTANGELO: Thank you. RAY: Okay. All in favor? COMMISSIONERS: Aye. RAY: Okay. Number of signatures? BALOG: I believe in the motion it was clarified by John. HERKES: Did we have a second? BALOG: That there was one. HIGASHI: Yes, George seconded it. HERKES: Okay, George. BALOG: One signature. RAY: One signature, okay. All right. Okay, so that was -, the understanding is that’s already covered, included? BALOG: Is that correct, Ms. -, Madam Secretary? HERKES: Yeah. RAY: Okay. BALOG: Okay. Yeah. SANTANGELO: And, to me, the -, between the two of you, if you work some system out, that’s just great, you know. RAY: Okay. Anything else under Financial Status Report? Don’t forget, we’ve got budget down below, so we’ll be talking about the budget. Okay, Item No. 5, Communications. Any thoughts? I had a thought, in terms of just kind of public outreach or a way that we might, you know, initially go at is, I was kind of tossing around the idea of if we could develop some sort of a short, you know, probably just one-page description of the charter and the process we’re intending, whatever, and use that as a mail-out piece or work on developing that. HERKES: Or a hand-out, yeah. RAY: Or a hand-out or a mail-out, you know, something that we could send out to that list of all -, you know, different community and business groups and whatever. That might be a nice, you know, helpful tool initially to get the word out. This is what the charter is all about, you know, this is kind of the process, you know, we’re going to be looking at, just to give people a heads-up. And then, you know, we discuss lots of other ideas in terms of, you know, how we might communicate, but anyway, I’m just file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 3-17-99.html7/1/2011