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<br />RAY: Sharron Henry has done some initial research and gotten some costs together. We could follow up on that. Roland.
<br />HIGASHI: I was going to the point of that. We should get the sample of what they did last year and if we did any advertising,
<br />in trying to publicize what was in the Charter, we should get samples of that. At least we’d have some idea what was done in
<br />the past, and then price that out.
<br />HERKES: I think that ten years ago, we didn’t have webs. We didn’t have e-mails. We didn’t have the Na Leo. We didn’t
<br />have a bunch of things that we have now, so in that context, there’s probably not going to be a lot that’s relevant.
<br />RAY: Well, I don’t know if that’s true. My sense is we’re still going to be beholden to paper and postage, and have to send
<br />out physical material and notices, and I don’t think we can rely on - I mean, we can enhance our effort with all those other
<br />mediums, but I still think we’re going to have to print up the brochures, mail them out, pay for a certain amount of
<br />advertising as well.
<br />HERKES: We might want to look at a budget for what we’re going to do.
<br />YUEN: If I could just make a suggestion. I think we’ll want to run a newspaper ad in the Tribune-Herald, the West Hawaii
<br />Today. It will probably be a full page which will be the digest, or summary, of all the Charter proposals. I think it probably
<br />can be done in a page. It might require a double truck, but most likely it would be a page. We could also price out the mailing
<br />to all registered voters. The digest itself, or the pamphlet itself, is not that expensive. Would probably be a couple of thousand
<br />if it’s professionally done. And if it’s amateurly done, it can be done basically for free. So if we could get that, then we’d
<br />know, kind of, the minimum. And those would be the big ticket items. And then we would decide if we wanted to run the
<br />newspaper ad. We could run it once or we could run it twice probably.
<br />HERKES: We just need to start looking at what the costs are and put something down on paper.
<br />RAY: Sharron has done that.
<br />HERKES: Good. We just haven’t seen it.
<br />RAY: Right.
<br />HERKES: Okay.
<br />KUROZAWA: John, just one thing. Actually, if we’re getting prices for paper, you know there’s a free mailer, the West Side
<br />Weekly, that comes to the P. O. box. It’s through West Hawaii Today. It’s basically a mailing that goes to every P. O. box, as
<br />far as I understand, which may get to more people. A lot of people don’t buy the paper and read it. And I don’t know if the
<br />Hilo side has something like that. It comes once a week and has all the flyers in it.
<br />RAY: We’ll start looking into that and figure out what all the options are, and then discuss it.
<br />Item No. 6, Communications. In our packets today is a variety of correspondence, testimony on specific Charter
<br />recommendations. There’s a summary put together by Sharron Henry in regard to public hearing input. There’s the Hawaii
<br />Redevelopment Agency documents, or testimony from Mr. Wurdeman, and then a letter, or testimony, from the Hawaii
<br />Portuguese Chamber of Commerce on the Charter Amendments.
<br />Unfinished Business, General Review of the Charter. I’m not sure how to go about this. What I did, and I know some of you
<br />have done this in part, or in total, and we’ve got this information from Sharron - all I did in preparation for pulling all of this
<br />together was just to make a handwritten list of everything I could think of to write down that had come up, either in testimony
<br />or things that maybe we had discussed, or maybe things I had thought of, and I could -
<br />IRVINE: Should we go by number, our nineteen numbers?
<br />RAY: Yes, otherwise we’re not going to be able to keep any semblance of order here.
<br />IRVINE: That’s the way I did it, so I guess it would be easier, but I have, kind of, an overall comment having done, sort of,
<br />what you did. I just tried to take in everything that’s been said to us. I did try to apply it to the 19 areas we’re looking at, and
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