1999-05-26 Charter Commission Minutes

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HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSIONPage 3 of 42 RAY: Yes. HERKES: And is that also true for the secretary, that we should go through you? I told her that was going to be the drill. RAY: Yeah, I think it should be. HERKES: I think so, too. RAY: I don’t think we should have individual members calling her and asking her to do this or that. Yeah. Okay, one -. I think we can cover this now in Unfinished Business. We talked about the public hearings; that can also be part of the announcements. But, you know, we did distribute this schedule of six public th hearings at the last meeting, starting on June 16 and going on those two Wednesdays in June and the four Wednesdays in July, and we do have all those locations booked as of now. And, additionally, I circulated that initial informational fact sheet that I put together in regard to, you know, the activities of the Charter and just sort of a general notice to get the public interested in the process. And I have gotten some feedback from both Mr. Bess and Ms. Irvine on that, and I think we’ve got it in pretty good shape to go out. And so what we anticipate is in the next week or so we’ll mail that out, we’ll get it out to as many community groups and organizations as we can, publicizing these meetings. And then I was thinking, as far as the public notice in the newspaper, this is open for discussion, but I was thinking maybe running two sets of ads in both newspapers advertising all the meetings. And do you think to do it at a midway point, or just do the two ahead? Do you have any thoughts on that? In other words, you know, I was thinking we’ll do a public notice that the Charter Commission is going out for public hearings and it’ll have all the dates and, you know, the locations and whatever on them, right, so that’ll run in both newspapers. Additionally, we’ll be sending out notices to a pretty wide spectrum of, you know, community groups, organizations and whatever, and that notice will include, you know, the meeting notice as well as the informational sheet, the informational information in regard to the process. IRVINE: John, were you talking about a paid advertisement or just the -? RAY: A paid advertisement is also part of this. IRVINE: Okay. RAY: Tell the public -. IRVINE: Not just the public announcement but -, I mean, I know we pay for those, but were you thinking of something more like a commercial ad, you know what I mean? RAY: Yeah, a little more like a commercial ad. IRVINE: Okay. RAY: Than just a public notice. But, you know, I mean, something along the lines of what they just did for the Mauna Kea, you know, summit, you know, review. Marni. file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 5-26-99.html7/1/2011