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HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSIONPage 3 of 37 the last remaining candidate, but we were unable to conduct that interview. So what’s going to happen -. As you know, Sue Irvine is on the mainland, and she had asked that she be part of the review process for all of the candidates since she had been a part of it for the first three, and so what we’re going to do is we’re going to be interviewing the last remaining candidate on Tuesday before our next meeting so that we will be in a position to recommend two attorneys or more to the Commission, as a whole. I should mention that I just received word from Mr. Lester Ishado, who was a candidate, and he has withdrawn his application. RAY: Okay. All right. Any questions on that? Okay, because of the public notice, I had talked to Mr. Bess about this, and so we have included that on the agenda for next week and so, hopefully, that’ll take place. Okay, VII B, Selection of Commission’s Secretary. Could I ask either or both Gary Yoshiyama or Marni Herkes to give us a report on where we are with that. HERKES: We have three applications that Civil Service has deemed appropriate, and we will be interviewing them. It would be nice if we could them done in the next week, and we will try. Mr. Balog’s not here today so -, but I’ll talk with Gary and see if we can get them -, see what his schedule is, what my schedule is, and when we can interview. RAY: Okay. And then we’ve got two additional applications, right, that we have to send out for -. HERKES: We’re going to do the three. Yes, Mr. Ray, we can go through all that, if you want, but in the interest of keeping the minutes readable, I thought we’d just say that we have three right now that are appropriate. RAY: Well, I just wanted to explain that in terms of the time frame that we do have to send out two additional applications and give them five days to respond to deficiencies, and then, if they do qualify, then I assume we’d be interviewing them, as well? HERKES: Uh huh. RAY: Okay. So time-wise, Gary or Marni, do you have any idea if we -? Let’s assume we get the -, that the other two, one of the other two, you know, qualifies and we have to interview that person, as well. Where does that put us in terms of, you know, having a warm body hired and on board for the Commission? HERKES: After we make a decision, say we make a decision within ten days. RAY: Okay. HERKES: Gary, how long does Civil -, do we have to -, can we hire right away? YOSHIYAMA: Yeah, anytime. Yeah. HERKES: Okay. YOSHIYAMA: Right. file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 5-12-99.html7/1/2011