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HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSIONPage 9 of 69 <br />about that tonight. Do you have any sense of how important it is to have our own staff attorney prior to <br />that? <br />WURDEMAN: You’re not going to be making decisions, right? <br />RAY: No. <br />WURDEMAN: You’re just going to be gathering the sense of the public? <br />RAY: Right. <br />WURDEMAN: I leave that up to you, but I would -, I don’t think an attorney would be critical. <br />RAY: Okay. All right. So let’s don’t kill ourselves on that. Okay. <br />MARTIN: Mr. Chair, if I may? <br />RAY: Yes, sir. <br />MARTIN: Would Corp. Counsel be willing to at least attend these meetings? <br />WURDEMAN: I told you the first meeting that I would attend until such time as -. <br />MARTIN: Okay. <br />WURDEMAN: I was replaced. So either I or someone. <br />BESS: So Mr. Chairman, what you’re saying is that we have until after these brainstorming sessions, the <br />meeting following the two brainstorming sessions to select the attorney? <br />RAY: I would feel comfortable if we had our attorney on board, you know, for a couple of reasons. <br />Number one, I’d like that person to be involved and get the input, and number two, you know, we’re <br />talking about a couple of pretty lengthy sessions, and you know, that’s sort of an imposition on <br />Corporation Counsel, as well, if we can get somebody on board sooner rather than later but -. Does that <br />seem realistic from your standpoint? When do you think you’d be comfortable coming up with a -? <br />BESS: Well, I guess -, I mean, again, I’m flexible. I don’t really see the necessity, there certainly isn’t a <br />necessity to have an attorney at either of the brainstorming sessions and, you know, my feeling is that <br />what we could do, if you’d like to, is go ahead and select the attorney at that meeting, that first <br />brainstorming meeting, deal with the Corporation Counsel as our Counsel at that meeting, and then he <br />would be advised if -, the attorney being selected would be advised and would be available for the next <br />meeting. <br />RAY: Okay. <br />BESS: I don’t think it’s practical to select -. <br />RAY: Yeah. Mr. Wurdeman. <br />WURDEMAN: Yes, sir. <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 4-14-99.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />