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Page 12 of 23 just say, if you’ve thought about the numbers it would involve. RAY: Marni. HERKES: I want to continue that line a little bit. The Waimea Water Round Table is a group of interested - RAY: Mr. Boyd participates. He’s intimately familiar. HERKES: Okay. Now, that to me is the advisory group for the Water Commission on the Waimea area and they don’t have to take the advice of the Water Round Table but they would be well advised to take it and I think that that’s probably - is that the kind of thing that you’d like to see in Ka’u or you’d like to see in Kohala? BOYD: That sounds like a - I attend this thing and I like it because it brings adversarial people to the table and they can lay out their viewpoints and how they feel about things. They can do that and I think that’s a good start. That would be good but it’s in Waimea and I think some of your most knowledgeable water people are from this area. I’m not saying that Ka’u people, or something, or Puna are a bunch of dummies. I don’t mean that at all but you need to have somebody out there to organize and put this together. This was put together by David Tarnas and John. To my knowledge, John Ray put this Waimea Water Round Table and they have Steve Bowles who is a hydrologist and he’s heavily into the knowledge of what’s going on out here in this area. I don’t know how you’d match that down in Kona, South Kona or Puna or in those areas. HERKES: Don’t give them a water well and they’re going to have one. RAY: Okay, good. Steve. Mr. Bess. BESS: I’m a little confused. You would like the Commission Members to either be elected or appointed. Now, assuming we go the appointment route, there is no check and balance on who that person appoints. In effect, the Council Member, as you’re suggesting, would pick the person and no one would approve that appointment. It would be his appointment in and of itself. Is that right? BOYD: If that’s the way we went, yes. Or are you asking how I would - BESS: Yes, I’m asking you how would this appointment work. Is this an appointment that is not subject to approval or any check and balance by any other entities such as the other Council Members. BOYD: No, the people in the Water Commission, for example, would have to approve of this person coming in. The Water Commission itself. BESS: Oh, so the Council Member would appoint and then it would go to the Water Commission and then the Water Commission would approve that appointment. Thank you. RAY: Any other questions? All right, thanks Dick. BOYD: Thank you. RAY: And our last speaker, Ken Boche. file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 7-7-99.html7/1/2011