1999-10-16 Charter Commission Minutes

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minutes 10-16-99Page 2 of 75 PATTON: In which? RAY: Sunday’s paper. HENRY: In both papers, West Hawaii Today and Hawaii Tribune-Herald. PATTON: Sunday’s? Okay. I’ll go back and look at that one. HENRY: The public notices were in RFD, the little State and County paper, and that was in last Monday’s. PATTON: I’ll go back and check because I do try to read word for word. HERKES: Wait, don’t quit. Let’s finish the web here. RAY: Then we’re on the web. PATTON: I don’t have a computer so - HERKES: The library does. RAY: So, I just want to go through - and the notices you got last time, and maybe that’s why you thought you were on that - we did sort of an extraordinary mailing list for the Public Hearings and you were put on a list in regard to the Public Hearings so that’s why we did sort of an extraordinary list of about 140, 150 - HENRY: 300. RAY: 300 extra notices for the public hearings, so anyway, I apologize for that. Actually, this is the first meeting we’ve held that’s out of Hilo, I think, since then. We’ve been having all our meetings in Hilo. PATTON: And I’ve seen in the papers, some notification of Hilo meetings, but didn’t catch this one. RAY: But we haven’t sent out any specifically to community groups on those. PATTON: Thank you. My reason for quickly changing my plans and coming over was partly on behalf of the other people who came last time, and couldn’t this time, because they didn’t know until late, so they sort of delegated me to listen for everybody. Most of you were here last time when we came over and so, we were looking primarily for follow-up discussion on some of the ideas that we had presented, in terms of the nonpartisan elections, in terms of local incorporated governments in the communities, whether it be Kona, as a city or whatever, to do local items. I mean right now, the County sits down to discuss whether a street in Kona should be named such and such, and that’s something that is taking up County time, that quite easily a local government in Kona could do. And in terms of County Managing Director, or whatever the term wanted to wind up being, and in terms of having Commissioners for the Planning and the Water Department directly elected. And we are here, I am here, for these people to find out what has happened in the meantime. What other people’s reaction around the island has been to these ideas, and where it stands now. RAY: Well, we may, or may not, touch on some of those subjects today, and I could probably chat with you personally to give you a little more of a complete sense on where some of those things are, or not, file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 10-16-99.html7/1/2011