1999-08-11 Charter Commission Minutes

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HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSIONPage 2 of 33 will stand but anyway, so far we’re in good shape. Any questions? No? Okay, good. Communications. There are none. Statements from the Public. There are none. Unfinished Business. The Rules of Procedure. I’m going to ask Mr. Yuen to explain the process we need to go through just so everybody understands that right now we’re operating from the last Charter Commission Review Rules of Procedure. Chris. YUEN: In order to adopt a new Rules of Procedure, it’s necessary to advertise them in the paper, give the public an opportunity to comment and then pass them. I don’t know that it would be absolutely necessary to adopt new ones if we were simply going to use the old ones unchanged but there has been a change in the regular meeting time from 3:30 to 5:00 and if there’s going to be that change then we need to go ahead and go through that process of advertising the rules and then adopting the changed rules at some later point. RAY: Other than the meeting time, there’s one other minor change that absolutely has to be and it’s just the address, but does anybody have any input on either the meeting times or anything else in the Rules of Procedure? I don’t sense that we’re absolutely set on a time or a date. We’ve talked about a bunch of different, sort of faster track scenarios. We were talking about a meeting every day this month not long ago so I don’t sense that we’re set on a specific day or time or how many meetings per month. Can I have some input there? Mr. Balog. BALOG: Could you just, instead of giving us specific dates, say that when properly noticed to the public, the Charter Commission would then meet on that date instead of having a specific date and time? YUEN: State law concerning meetings requires every Board or Commission to have a regular meeting date and then you can have other meetings but those are called Special Meetings and you have to do more advertising to have a Special Meeting than a regular meeting. BALOG: So you have to have a specific day and time? YUEN: Yes. BALOG: A day in the month and a time attached to it in your rules? YUEN: Yes, you have to have a regular meeting time and place. Now, you can cancel all your regular meetings and have all Special Meetings but you’re supposed to have a regular time and place set in your rules. RAY: Let’s try to deal with our regular meetings. Is there any input from the members how they’d like to see the meeting schedule set for the next fall? Do we want to go with two meetings a month on Wednesdays? And the time as well, I’d like to discuss, for the next meeting in particular, the meeting we’ve got scheduled for the 25th. We have some fairly lengthy presentations. We have John Henry Felix coming over from City and County of Honolulu to talk about nonpartisan elections. We have the County Elections Division coming in to talk about Special Election scenarios so I would like to have that meeting start at 3:00 to accommodate not only the County people, but other folks coming in from outer file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 8-11-99.html7/1/2011