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HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSIONPage 5 of 45 <br />RAY: Other questions? Daryl. <br />KUROZAWA: Actually, I know that you’re pretty clear that currently the Planning Commission has a <br />fair workload but it sounds like it’s better now that you’re meeting twice a month. One of the arguments <br />about having two Commissions was that it would actually lessen the workload. Do you think it’s <br />actually going to be better if we had two Planning Commissions? Would it actually lessen the workload <br />or do you think it will be more work for the County? <br />TANAKA: On the one hand, I guess I’m looking at staff because I work closely with our staff in getting <br />the information, getting all of the preliminary agendas together, or helping to organize, so definitely, it <br />would probably require additional staff personnel on the Kona side. From the Commission standpoint, <br />the Commissioners, as far as the workload, I guess it would decrease if you set the boundary across the <br />island and one Commission would consider only the issues on the East side and other on the West side. I <br />wonder if there would be enough to even have monthly meetings on the East side. As it is, it’s pretty <br />light right now. Then too, would you have enough interest by the public to serve on these Commissions, <br />if that were the case, too. Good question. <br />RAY: Roland. <br />HIGASHI: Leonard, in Oahu, how do they operate? <br />TANAKA: I think Oahu is the only one that is advisory. I believe the rest of the islands have similar <br />powers like we do. <br />RAY: Gary. <br />YOSHIYAMA: I have a question regarding the composition. We’ve got 9 Members now, but from the 6 <br />representative districts and 3 at large, or something to that effect, right? <br />RAY: It was changed. <br />TANAKA: On the Planning Commission? <br />RAY: Yes. <br />YOSHIYAMA: Regarding the organization of the Commission, regarding workload, have you <br />considered, rather than revising the Charter, reorganizing the Commission to handle - a creation of sub- <br />committees or something like that, or do you do that already? <br />TANAKA: As far as the workload, I don’t think it’s an issue with any of the Commissioners right now. I <br />think having the two meetings a month has improved our schedules a lot. Again, we’re meeting on the <br />average, a half a day, so those of us who have businesses can attend the Commission meetings in the <br />morning and then go back to work, if we choose, in the afternoon. So from the Commission standpoint, I <br />don’t think it’s a problem as far as workload. As far as segregating the duties, whenever we have <br />contested case hearings, which would require additional meetings over and above the two a month, we <br />would ask for volunteers and try and rotate the Commissioners. It’s been light this year. I don’t think we <br />had not a single contested case yet. So the workload right now is not a problem. The state of the <br />economy has something to do with that, too. There’s not a lot of activity out there. <br />RAY: Kevin. <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 9-8-99.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />