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HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSIONPage 23 of 37 <br />was that he felt that some of the things that we were joining together were unrelated. <br />BETHEA: Oh, okay. <br />YUEN: And didn’t want -. <br />BETHEA: Yeah, there was a State law there or something, I think. <br />HIGASHI: Next question is how much time did it take to deliberate, to form the questions, and form the <br />ballot? Did it take one meeting, three meetings, or -? <br />YUEN: It was a rolling -. As far as what was going to go on the ballot, there were, there was -, the <br />Commission was voting in a rolling -. <br />HIGASHI: I understand that. <br />YUEN: Fashion. <br />HIGASHI: At the end -. <br />YUEN: And then I think that near the end, I did a recap, you know, what we, you know, and I think I did <br />this a couple of times in the course of -, just so we would be straight. Okay, what have we voted to put <br />on? What have we voted not to put on? And then we -, because there was this -, there was a <br />disagreement with the Clerk, we got up a little close to the deadline, as I recall, before we knew what <br />exactly the ballot was going to actually look like and how many different questions there were -, how <br />many different votes people were going to have to cast. <br />HIGASHI: You were faced with the deadline of the printing of the ballot itself, is that correct? <br />YUEN: Yes. <br />HIGASHI: That was your deadline? <br />YUEN: The Lieutenant Governor’s Office. <br />HIGASHI: Yeah. <br />YUEN: That whole -, there’s a deadline right -, I can’t remember what it was. <br />BESS: When you mentioned recap, are you saying that it was your function to basically, not only say <br />what went on and what was deferred and what was voted on, but to come up with proposed language <br />and then you would float that language to the Commission as a whole, is that it? <br />YUEN: Right. Right. I drafted -. <br />BESS: Okay. So there’s -. <br />YUEN: Most of the particular -, the language of the changes in the Charter, and I think I probably <br />drafted the way that the question was going to be placed on the ballot, because it’s not always exactly <br />the same thing. The language, the ballot may say, you know, shall the County have a single member <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 5-12-99.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />