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<br />YOSHIYAMA: In the next month.
<br />MARTIN: In the next month, exactly. I mean, let’s be real, people.
<br />RAY: My suggestion is we keep things as they are right now, and we see where we are, and we’ll have some sense of that
<br />after the 15th, but see where we are after that first meeting in February. And if we need to meet the next couple of Saturdays
<br />to get some things wrapped up. We don’t have to have all the details done, right? We just need to have a preliminary package
<br />to take out, and go, and engage the public. But if we follow the schedule, we did six meetings, so that would take six weeks.
<br />SANTANGELO: Is it necessary to go in that detail, or can we do an East and West?
<br />RAY: We can do whatever we want. We could do four; North, South, East and West.
<br />M. HERKES: Yes, four. Yes.
<br />RAY: I would be in favor of, at least, four meetings.
<br />MARTIN: Minimum four.
<br />YOSHIYAMA: Yes, minimum four.
<br />SANTANGELO: And where would you do these four?
<br />RAY: Kona and Hilo are the two big ones. And North, probably Waimea; and South, I don’t know.
<br />YOSHIYAMA: Yes, hard. Big area.
<br />IRVINE: Yes, Pahoa to Naalehu. We could go to Volcano, halfway in between.
<br />RAY: I would say Naalehu, and Pahala, down there. The Puna people find their way to Hilo frequently.
<br />So, Chris, say we came up with a package by mid-February? So, say we started the end of February, and went till the end of
<br />March, or say, got done by March with the public hearings?
<br />MARTIN: Point of clarification, if I may, Chair. What we go with on the public hearings has got to be pretty much what
<br />we’re going to present to the electoral to put on the ballot, yes or no, Chris?
<br />YUEN: I would say it doesn’t have to have the exact language, but it should have the details worked out. For example, in this
<br />six-three, I think the things that I discussed should be in there. And you want to go with something that people can get their
<br />hands around. For example, you don’t want to say, well, we’re going to give more power to the Police Commission. You
<br />have to have something, and it may not be that much more work to actually have, close to, the exact language available, as a
<br />preliminary kind of draft, because what you’re going to find in changing the Charter is, typically, not very many words are
<br />involved, but they count for a lot.
<br />RAY: Say we finish those first public hearings by the end of March. Then, what’s our deadline to come up with the final
<br />language that would appear on the ballot?
<br />YUEN: I don’t have that with me, but I can get that to you in a few days.
<br />RAY: I think we’ve got to work backward from that, right?
<br />MARTIN: We had that someplace. What’s his name gave it to us. Elections.
<br />SANTANGELO: Konishi.
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