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<br />BESS: Yeah.
<br />RAY: And I -, you know, I think we ought to, you know, be mindful of the fact that, you know, do we
<br />want to, you know, request County departments to come out to, you know, Naalehu or Waimea in the
<br />evening to address or not? Mr. Balog.
<br />BALOG: If you have committees from the Commission instead of having a full-fledged meeting, it
<br />could work in the favor of procedure that you could run the meetings more as informational and trying
<br />to gather information, then going through the public, somebody come up, and then the public, at the end,
<br />even though you have public comments, somebody says, hey, that department person said something. I
<br />want to say something; I don’t agree with. And then going back and forth. Is it not possible just to have
<br />a committee meeting that if you want to have people on that committee report back to the Commission
<br />and you don’t need to worry about a lengthy hearing?
<br />RAY: Okay. Comments? Marni.
<br />HERKES: I have a problem with engaging a department head in comments. I mean, it’s all right to
<br />disagree, but I think the comments ought to be broad. And, I don’t know, I see that there’s a -.
<br />BALOG: No, well, they’re sending us information; I got a pack of information already from the
<br />departments. So my thing is if you don’t want to make a committee -. I know how to read, actually. So if
<br />you want to really expedite it, ask the departments what comments they have, write it down, and send it
<br />to the members. I’ll read it. I don’t -. It’s more of a public service that you’re bringing the department
<br />people to me, to a meeting, to say what they, their changes are in the public when we’re holding our
<br />meeting, because you can get that same information out of them in writing, and then just bring them to a
<br />meeting, and go through what comments they’ve submitted and question them on those comments.
<br />IRVINE: I’m afraid -.
<br />RAY: Mr. Santangelo.
<br />SANTANGELO: Yeah. I wouldn’t be expecting, when we’re in the country, per se, to have department
<br />heads traveling out there. When we have meetings in say Kona or Hilo, we should make it available. If a
<br />department head like Mr. Takahashi is here today, what I’m expecting from Mr. Takahashi is his
<br />experience with the Charter, the concerns that he has. I’d want to engage him only for clarification. It’s
<br />going to be our decision. And we’re on an information -. Maybe I misunderstood something, but it’s not
<br />for us to get into a debate with these people. They’re here to inform us of their concerns. It’s for us to
<br />take it up with our legal assistance, is how I see it. So -.
<br />BALOG: Right.
<br />SANTANGELO: Any time we can take our meetings, I mean, certainly if a department head shows up,
<br />we should take that input.
<br />BALOG: Okay. I agree. All I’m saying is I think you guys said about having committees,
<br />subcommittees or -.
<br />HERKES: Mr. Ray did.
<br />BALOG: A meeting of the whole, which would be the entire Commission, so all I’m saying is for you
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