1999-10-13 Charter Commission Minutes

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minutes 10-13-99Page 22 of 31 HERKES: And thank you for calling that to our attention. PIERSON: You’re in good company. The County Council has been violating it for years. RAY: Let’s take a five minute break and then we’ll convene. RECESSED The Chairman called a recess at 6:25 p.m. RECONVENED The meeting reconvened at 6:37 p.m. RAY: Let’s reconvene the meeting. We’re going to just handle two more items this evening, the Police Department and Police Commission. At the last meeting, I think it was our understanding that the Board of Appeals might be able to meet prior to this meeting, and it turns out, that they were not able to and are not going to be meeting for some time, so we’ll have to delay that. Corporation Counsel is not present this evening to get their input on both the Board of Appeals area, as well as their recommendation in regard to the Police Commission, so we won’t be able to get their input this evening. So let’s just ask up the folks from the Police Commission and the Police Department. So Major Mahuna, do you want to come up first from the Police Department? Now, we have a letter dated September 30th from Chief Carvalho, so does everybody have that? This is in response to the proposed Charter Amendments which we received from the Police Commission. HERKES: Mr. Ray, why do I have one that says September 30th and one that says October 15th? RAY: Yes, the October 15th is the - HERKES: Is that the one? RAY: Yes, excuse me. Okay, we’ve got a September 9th communication from the Police Commission, from the Chair, Sharon Scheele, that we had since the last meeting. This is their proposals from the Police Commission. In response to that, we have the October 15th letter. Okay? Major. MAHUNA: Good evening, Mr. Chairman and members of the Charter Review Commission. I’m not going to be here to recite, basically, what you have in front of you in our October 15th memorandum, or letter, to the Commission, but I would welcome any question that you have in regards to the contents of the letter and I can give you the position of the Police Department, and hopefully, give you the position of the Police Chief. Any questions? RAY: Can we get the representative from the Police Commission up to the table, too? Maybe that would get everybody at the table. Yes, Ms. Irvine. IRVINE: I didn’t have anything to say. RAY: Does everybody have this proposed Charter Amendments from Sharon Scheele? This is a September 9th communication. Can you both state your names for the record, too? OKABE: Will Okabe. RAY: Representing? OKABE: Police Commission. file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 10-13-99.html7/1/2011