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HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSIONPage 23 of 69 <br />BESS: And, of course, you know, there are some technological problems with the tape itself that may <br />deteriorate. <br />SANTANGELO: I’d like to weigh in on that, mainly, as we meet, we know what the intent and certainly <br />we judge what our intent was in live dialogue, and having verbatim minutes doesn’t really cause us to <br />have to digest the whole hundred and some pages of every meeting because we were there. But for open <br />public perception and for the whole historical archives, it’s probably best, and I would weigh in on <br />verbatim minutes. <br />RAY: Roland. <br />HIGASHI: Mr. Wurdeman, let me pose this other question to you. How many reports, mainly committee <br />reports? If we have verbatim minutes on actions that are taken, is that something that would suffice? I <br />mean, we have a hundred and I don’t know how many pages of minutes. <br />HERKES: One twenty-six. <br />HIGASHI: And it’s dialogue and committee reports and a lot of things that are not action-oriented, just <br />general discussion. <br />WURDEMAN: Well, is it your intention to have subject matter committees, like Finance Committee <br />and maybe Police Committee or things like that, or are you going to do it as a body? <br />RAY: I think we’re planning on doing it as a body. <br />HERKES: Interesting question though. <br />WURDEMAN: So there would not necessarily be any committee reports. <br />HIGASHI: Yeah. Selection of a Commission secretary and, you know, that kind of stuff, there’s reports. <br />WURDEMAN: I was thinking more of not what’s going on today but when you do get into substantive <br />areas and make changes to the Charter, and five years from now, people are trying to figure out what <br />this means. <br />RAY: Okay. Sue. <br />WURDEMAN: Unfortunately, things go into the Charter don’t come out for five years, you know, and <br />all of a sudden somebody raises -. <br />IRVINE: I move we have verbatim minutes of our proceedings per Mr. Takahashi’s request from the <br />Finance Department. <br />RAY: Okay. A second? <br />BESS: Second. <br />RAY: Okay, discussion? <br />HERKES: Yeah. I’d like to ask Mr. Higashi what his concerns are about 126 pages. <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 4-14-99.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />