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HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSIONPage 4 of 69 <br />in the Hawaii Tribune-Herald. That gives us a balance right now of $29,565.08. The County Council did <br />approve the appropriation that was submitted at the last Council meeting. I sent in a letter on behalf of <br />the Commission just describing generally where we were in the process, and the Finance Department <br />submitted information based -, some budgets from the last Charter Commission explaining, you know, <br />how they came up with the ballpark figures. So the Council approved that appropriation of $30,000, <br />th <br />which is an appropriation until June 30. At that time, unexpended funds will lapse, and then they also <br />th <br />have an appropriation in the budget for $100,000 to go from June 30 until the following year. Okay? <br />Let’s see. Communications. I don’t have any communications from anyone, written or otherwise, okay. <br />Statements from the Public. Do we have anyone here? No? Okay. Reflect there are no statements from <br />the public. <br />Okay, let’s move on to Unfinished Business, the selection of Commission’s attorney. Mr. Bess, do you <br />have anything to report? <br />BESS: The Committee has received a total of five applications, and so we need to schedule a committee <br />meeting before -, I guess Sue’s taking off for the mainland, so we hope in the next couple of weeks, <br />meetings so that we can interview the candidates. <br />RAY: Okay. And what was the deadline on that? <br /> <br />th <br />BESS: The deadline has passed, April 12. <br />RAY: Okay. Okay. Any comment on that? Okay. In regard to the time line, what do you anticipate is the <br />earliest, you know, we could get somebody on board in terms of having -. <br />BESS: Well, you know -. <br />RAY: Our own legal staff? <br />BESS: What we could do is, as I say, complete the interviews, have the Committee make <br />recommendations to the Charter Commission, and if we’re -, I’m hopeful that we can do that this month. <br />RAY: Okay. <br />BESS: And then be in a position to report back to you next meeting and a decision could be made at the <br />next meeting by the Board. <br />RAY: Okay. <br />BESS: By the Commission, I should say. <br />RAY: And in regard to that process, can we arbitrarily, you know, just approve the recommendation? <br />BESS: Arbitrarily? <br />RAY: I mean, you make a recommendation, right? <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 4-14-99.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />