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<br />ROSS: Okay, it’s just a question.
<br />RAY: Because we knew we were going to run into some problems with a couple of these Saturdays where a lot of people
<br />were going to be out of town. So we did address that to the satisfaction of our legal counsel.
<br />ROSS: Okay. Can you hear me through this mike?
<br />RAY: Yes.
<br />ROSS: Okay. Mr. Chairman and members, I regard the Charter as the Constitution of the County. It is the most important
<br />legal document that we have, and I feel that over the years, it has not been handled that way. This meeting, for instance, and
<br />I’ll try to point it out because there are improvements possible. There are more hearings coming up. I would rather see this
<br />hearing called a public informational meeting, or something like that. It’s just a suggestion. Other Commissions have done
<br />that, and it takes a lot of confusion away, but that’s up to you. It has been announced as a hearing and, as such, you missed, in
<br />the newspaper, the requirement under Statute 92-41, that the subject matter must be indicated in the ad in the official paper. It
<br />isn’t. This meeting, in a sense, this hearing, in a sense, is illegal because of that ad, and there are couple of other things.
<br />RAY: We ran multiple. We also ran ads in the Midweek flyer publication, as well.
<br />ROSS: Yeah, I can’t read that, Mr. Chairman.
<br />RAY: Just to let you know, we ran extra ads that were not required.
<br />ROSS: I have them with me because I was planning, you know, with a magnifying glass, to go over it, but that is not a proper
<br />publication, as far as I’m concerned. I have four diopter lens in my eye and that is as high as it will go, and I cannot read it. I
<br />have two plastic lens and so on, and I think a public document ought to be publically legible. And anyway, some of these are
<br />minor things, but I mention them in going because there is still time to make amends if that should be necessary. Because I
<br />could take you - For instance, and how far does Chapter 92 apply to this Commission. It does, certainly, but what of it, and so
<br />on. I could, at a later date, take you to court if you do not make certain amends, but there is still time. And my question is
<br />would you like to see a court nullify all the time you spent on this because of a couple of mishandled details, and so on. You
<br />still have two public hearings to go, I understand. Am I correct?
<br />RAY: We have two more scheduled at this stage.
<br />ROSS: No, three, sorry.
<br />RAY: Two more and we scheduled four this round, and we could schedule as many others as we’d like.
<br />ROSS: But the Charter itself, the existing Charter, calls for six hearings.
<br />RAY: We already did six hearings last summer.
<br />ROSS: You did?
<br />RAY: We held six hearings, yes.
<br />ROSS: You do that in the beginning rather than at the end? Okay, there’s no time sets for them, so -
<br />RAY: We held six public hearings last summer.
<br />ROSS: Okay, so I’m off on that one. I have a problem with your letterhead. I don’t think the Mayor ought to appear on that.
<br />The Mayor has nothing to do in the chain of command, or whatever, with this Commission. So, your names are on it. That’s
<br />fine. But you can act under the State Seal, if I’m not mistaken, and so Mr. Yamashiro’s name ought not to be there. And I
<br />would like to see it disappear because he’s trying to influence, I’ve noticed in other things that I get too, this Commission,
<br />and I don’t like that. That is not the idea.
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