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HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSIONPage 22 of 37 <br />YUEN: Well -. <br />HIGASHI: Do you think the Charter Commission has the authority to have the specific question <br />presented and formatted? <br />YUEN: Yes. Yes. Right. Right. Subject only to like basic fairness of not presenting in a way that either - <br />. <br />HIGASHI: So there’s not -, if you’re for -. <br />YUEN: Makes it -. <br />HIGASHI: If you’re for it -. <br />YUEN: Yeah. <br />HIGASHI: You’re going to vote against, and if you’re against, you vote yes. <br />YUEN: Something like that, yeah. So if there are a bunch -, for example, what we had wanted to do was <br />there were things that were just technical, very technical kinds of changes, and we wanted to put all of <br />those together. <br />L’ORANGE: Mandated by State law. <br />YUEN: Yeah, so -. <br />L’ORANGE: Yeah, I mean that’s -. <br />HIGASHI: Did you have a special election? <br />YUEN: No. <br />BETHEA: Did we have the final decision on what questions would be joined, or was the County Clerk <br />referring to State law and saying we had to separate them? <br />YUEN: I don’t know what -. <br />BETHEA: Because I think the single member district and that went out combined, didn’t it? <br />YUEN: That went out combined because the people, the people that were in favor of two years were <br />only in favor of it if single member passed. <br />BETHEA: Yeah, but didn’t it go out on the ballot combined? <br />L’ORANGE: That’s right. <br />BETHEA: So that for whatever reason, the Clerk didn’t control that. <br />YUEN: No, the Clerk had no objection to that because it’s really, it’s really -, that’s one change in how <br />the Council would be done. You can join some things together, and I think that the Clerk’s point of view <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 5-12-99.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />