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HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSIONPage 17 of 37 <br />there for a number of years, and the question would be how do you stimulate that kind of input? <br />YUEN: Yeah. <br />BESS: So we don’t get a party line. <br />YUEN: Yeah. <br />BESS: I mean, what you’re going to have is -, I mean, I don’t know how the current mayor is going to <br />handle this. <br />YUEN: Yeah. <br />BESS: But there could very well be an administrative meeting to suggest, you know, how the input to <br />the Charter Commission would be handled, and -. <br />L’ORANGE: Yeah, but Steve -. <br />BESS: I guess I’d just like to stimulate as broad a based input as possible, is what -. <br />L’ORANGE: The letters come to -, I’m on the Board of Appeals. The letter came to the Chairman of the <br />Board of Appeals. If there’s problems with the Board of Appeals process, the Board is the one that’s <br />going to be familiar with the community and whatever hakakas. I don’t recall -, we didn’t decide <br />anything at the last meeting that I recall; we had a very long meeting. But we’re going to have a chance <br />to respond if we care to respond, and that will not necessarily be an administrative response. <br />BESS: Correct. <br />L’ORANGE: I think we got stuck in the Planning Commission, the Commission itself, dealing with the <br />planning issues. <br />BESS: Yes. <br />L’ORANGE: We got some very good input from the Planning Commission, from the chairperson. <br />BESS: And how did you stimulate commission involvement? Was it -? <br />L’ORANGE: They were invited, I assume. <br />BESS: Did you have a public relations firm? And if so, at what point in time and what function did it <br />serve? <br />YUEN: No. <br />BETHEA: I don’t think we did, no. <br />YUEN: No. <br />L’ORANGE: Couldn’t afford it. <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 5-12-99.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />