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<br />agendas, all the recording, putting the minutes out. They don’t have anything, whatsoever, to do with writing the legislation.
<br />IRVINE: I understand that, and I really think that writing the legislation and auditing are very closely aligned.
<br />RAY: Right.
<br />IRVINE: Whereas, answering the kind of constituent complaints has nothing to do with this, and it shouldn’t be at the
<br />Legislative Auditor’s Office.
<br />M. HERKES: My understanding is that the make-up of the Legislative Auditor’s Office is staff people from each Council
<br />person. So, therefore, when a Council person gets a complaint, it’s perfectly appropriate and logical, for me, to refer it to that
<br />staff person they have in the Legislative Auditor’s Office and that’s where the problem is.
<br />IRVINE: But they have staff over at the County Clerk’s side, and these Committee Chairs who have staff at the Legislative
<br />Auditor’s office, maybe it should not be specifically committee.
<br />M. HERKES: That’s where I think the problem is.
<br />RAY: They’re attached to committees, but there are also Committee Chairs, and the Committee Chairs direct the staff
<br />whereas the Legislative Auditor needs to direct and manage the staff more sufficiently.
<br />IRVINE: Right.
<br />M. HERKES: Right. Well, we finally got to the problem.
<br />RAY: So, I think that’s where we’d like to head with this.
<br />M. HERKES: Yes.
<br />SANTANGELO: There’s a lot of sense being committed. But another thing, too, is looking at the qualifications. But, again,
<br />we talk about qualifications, and there aren’t any, as it stands now.
<br />RAY: Okay, just so you know. Past Councils have instituted qualifications, from time to time, in the Legislative Auditor’s
<br />Office. That’s not something that’s never been addressed.
<br />M. HERKES: So, is this something we need to put in the Charter?
<br />RAY: I think we need to address it in the ways that Connie suggests, and let’s see what we can come up with. But, I don’t
<br />think we ought to think that we’re going to totally spell things out.
<br />Anything else for this evening?
<br />We’ve got our agenda set for January, and we agreed at the last meeting that, for now, we’re going to go with the one
<br />Wednesday meeting, the second Wednesday of the month at 5 p.m., our regularly scheduled meeting in our rules in Hilo, and
<br />then try to get more work done, the next couple of months anyway, in Waimea on Saturdays, so we scheduled on the 15th of
<br />January and the 5th of February in Waimea. And, Chris, do you have a sense of, from your standpoint, what we should be
<br />looking at timing-wise, to get this thing out to the public, and then have sufficient time to write up everything in detail, and
<br />get it submitted?
<br />YUEN: Pretty soon. Because there’s been this commitment for public hearings on a proposed package, that package should
<br />really be done pretty soon, I think, because you’re going to have a series of public hearings, and if they want to have time to
<br />make any revisions in response to that. I haven’t worked out a time frame, but I would say that, probably, early February
<br />would not be a bad time to shoot for, for having that package.
<br />MARTIN: So then we may have to meet a few more Saturdays in the next couple of months.
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