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<br />Page 1 of 12 <br />Back To: Home Page | Table of Contents | Charter main page <br /> <br />  <br />HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSION <br />Transcript of Public Hearing of June 23, 1999 <br />Kahakai School Cafeteria <br />Kailua-Kona, Hawaii <br />  <br />  <br />Members J. Ray, E. Alonzo, K. Balog, M. Herkes, S. Irvine, D. Kurozawa, <br />Present: G. Martin, J. Santangelo, G. Yoshiyama <br />Absent: S. Bess, R. Higashi <br />CALL TO ORDER <br />Chairman John Ray called the meeting to order at approximately 5:00 p.m. <br />INTRODUCTION OF CHARTER COMMISSION MEMBERS <br />RAY: This is a public hearing of the 1999-2000 Charter Commission. We are in Kona this evening. <br />Thank you all for coming. I would like to introduce the members of the Commission that are here this <br />evening. Starting to my far right: Sue Irvin, Gary Yoshiyama, Kevin Balog, Daryl Kurozawa, George <br />Martin, myself John Ray. To my left: Marni Herkes and John Santangelo. <br />INTRODUCTORY REMARKS <br />RAY: To give you a little bit of just general background on the review process that we are involved in. <br />As mandated by law every ten years, this Charter Commission was appointed by the Mayor and <br />confirmed by the County Council in January. We have been meeting monthly since February, focused <br />initially on internal organization, the hiring of staff. Administrative Assistant, Sharron Henry, is here <br />recording this evening. Her duties entail research, recording minutes, communicating both internally and <br />with the public. Our legal staff, our legal counsel is Christopher Yuen who is not here this evening. <br />Chris basically makes sure we operate in a procedurally correct manner. He’s in charge of legal <br />research, drafting opinions and drafting proposed language for the Charter amendments we come up <br />with. Our budget, appropriated for this process, is $130.000 appropriated. The last Charter review <br />expended $113,000 on the review of the Charter. The major costs for staff and meeting costs including <br />the public notices which are quite expensive over the course of a year or more with the public meetings. <br />We’ve recently completed a round of meetings where we have received input from various County <br />Departments. Sort of a broad brush approach to get major suggestions in terms of what the County <br />Departments might be looking at. Some of the initial suggestions we’ve received have been looking at <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 6-23-99.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />