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Page 21 of 23 <br />RAY: No. <br />PATTON: It’s open to your discretion? <br />RAY: Right. <br />PATTON: Okay. <br />RAY: I think the last two Charter Commissions - I think there were 13 proposed amendments the first <br />time and 18 the second. And by the way, that’s in the front of your Charter. It lists the proposed <br />amendments in the last two Charter reviews so that’s an interesting thing to look at - what was proposed <br />right there in the very start. Okay? <br />PATTON: Thank you very much. The comment I had was sort of in response to what you had said and <br />to you, about people applying. <br />MARNI: Volunteering? <br />PATTON: Volunteering. And tragedy is a bit large of a word but something along that line, of the thing <br />is, in the past year there was an opening for a Water Commissioner from Kohala and there was a <br />opening for a Planning Commissioner from Kohala and unfortunately, it was sort of a standard joke <br />around the community that those people who had bothered to become informed and involved at a <br />community level would not apply because they did not perceive, in a Mayor appointed Commission in <br />this particular time, in this particular administration, any hope of being selected. And so, because it is <br />mayorally appointed and because there’s politics in almost any decision that’s made, volunteerism is <br />discouraged whereas if you had an election, it would depend on the people in your district knowing you <br />and what your positions are and it would also, by having election as Ken said, put the issues right out in <br />front for discussion. What’s the forum at this point for discussing, in a community, a particular issue? <br />We sort of have to create community groups and do it and it’s like oh no, another community group, <br />another set of meetings and this sort of thing, but an election puts it out there, puts issues in the paper, <br />gets it discussed and then it gets a readout on the community opinion when you do the actual voting <br />which is very different from mayorally appointed. <br />RAY: Okay, thank you. Dick, you had a final comment? Make it short. <br />BOYD: Thank ya’ll for coming up here tonight and listening to us. I’ve been to thousands of these <br />meetings and I’ll tell you what, you guys have a tough job and I appreciate you coming up here after a <br />hard day’s work and what not. Thank you very much for being here and you too, Madam Secretary. <br />RAY: Okay, thank you. Any other comments? Yes sir. You want to just come up and introduce yourself. <br />PERRY: I’ll take just a couple of minutes of your time. My name’s David Perry. I’m from North <br />Kohala. I think I’m a lot like you right now in this process. I’m more listening and thinking and not <br />really ready to talk but there’s one issue, and I was very happy to hear that there’s going to be a second <br />round of this. Maybe by then I’ll be ready to talk more but there’s one issue that I would like to bring up <br />briefly that hasn’t been touched on tonight and it is, in many ways, a logical extension of what Ken <br />Boche was saying. Has to do with the County Plan. <br />We have a revision of the County Plan coming up and also we have what I think is a very significant <br />thing happen, potentially significant thing happen last year. The County Commission voted to endorse <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 7-7-99.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />