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HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSIONPage 35 of 37 RAY: Okay. So, hopefully, that’ll expedite that process. On the other item of New Business, A, Communications/Public Relations Committee, it’s my understanding that we’re going to hold off on that decision for the time being and use our own existing distribution network and the press to get out the word and let that suffice for now. Is that -? SANTANGELO: I’m not opposed, you know, with these meetings coming up and some sort of an informational package of going out to someone and contracting one specific job, and I don’t how this Commission feels. But like with this paper you generated and, you know, I think there is a possibility to putting a two or three-page thing together that could be put in the Sunday paper that announces our meetings and informs people what we’re about. And I wouldn’t say hire a public relations firm, but certainly it’s possible to contract one thing. HERKES: Would you like a motion? Would you like a motion? RAY: A motion? HERKES: A motion to -. SANTANGELO: To defer? HERKES: Hold off on hiring the public relations firm? RAY: Yes, please. HERKES: You got it. RAY: Second? HIGASHI: Second. HERKES: Now, discussion. RAY: Okay, now discussion. Thank you. HIGASHI: Mr. Chair? RAY: Yes. HIGASHI: Probably once we see the strength of our administrative assistant, perhaps she could be doing some of that, putting the press release out. If she needs help, maybe some of us can help her but hopefully -. SANTANGELO: But are we going about this in a way that restricts? I thought we had discussed two ways of going about hiring this person in the first place, and one was where it left all that open. The other one was rather restricted in a job description. HERKES: I don’t understand the question. RAY: Okay. I -. file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 5-12-99.html7/1/2011