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<br />minutes 10-16-99Page 1 of 75 <br />Back To: Home Page | Table of Contents | Charter Main Page <br />HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSION <br />Transcript of Meeting of October 16, 1999 <br />Waimea Civic Center <br />Waimea, Hawaii <br />Attendance: J. Ray, S. Bess (after 10:25 a.m.), M. Herkes, R. Higashi, S. Irvine, D. Kurozawa, G. Martin <br />(after 9:26 p.m.), J. Santangelo, G. Yoshiyama, Counsel Chris Yuen <br />Absent: E. Alonzo, K. Balog <br />And 18 members of the public in attendance. <br />The meeting was called to order at 9:16 p.m. <br />RAY: The October 16th Special Meeting of the 1999-2000 Charter Commission is called to order. It’s <br />9:16. We’re in Waimea today. <br />Following our agenda, the attendance at this time are myself John Ray, Chairman; Roland Higashi, <br />Vice-Chair; Marni Herkes, Sue Irvine, John Santangelo, and Gary Yoshiyama, and we’re expecting <br />other members shortly. <br />Minutes Approval. We have no minutes for approval today. We had a meeting just three days ago. <br />Same with the Financial Status Report. It’s the same as it was on Wednesday. <br />Written Communications. None. <br />Statements from the Public: We have a very open agenda today so anything is open for comment. This is <br />sort of a mid-term general review, kind of where we stand. So anything you’d like to address is fair <br />game today. We have two folks signed up, at this point, and additionally, we’re going to have one or <br />more representatives from the League of Women Votes. They should be here by about 10:00. They <br />asked to come in and address the Charter Commission on a number of topics today. So, our first signed <br />up member is Lesley Patton. Lesley. <br />PATTON: I had a variety, sort of stew, that I briefly wanted to touch on, and one of them is on behalf of <br />a number of people in Kohala. We did not receive any notification. There are several of us who watch <br />the newspapers carefully, who get that little tiny, tiny print government bulletin thing that comes for <br />public notices, and what have you, and last time we had received copies of the agendas in the mail so we <br />know we were on the mailing list, and this time that didn’t happen, and we, unfortunately, only found <br />out last night around 6:00 from one of our council people that this was even happening, so somewhere <br />there was a breakdown. I don’t know where. <br />RAY: Why don’t we have our Administrative Assistant fill you in on what the notice is. <br />HENRY: The complete agendas were in Sunday’s papers. I have them at my home. <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 10-16-99.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />