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minutes 04-12-00Page 22 of 26 <br />HERKES: I was going to bring that up. I think, from having been on this, it seems to me the Charter Commission should <br />meet after the reapportionment. They meet every ten years, a year before the census. So we faced some problems in where is <br />the population and we could write language into the Charter that says this Charter will be in effect for eleven years, and after <br />that it will be 10 years. <br />RAY: Or just convene after the following Reapportionment Commission. <br />HERKES: I don’t know. How do you guys feel about that? <br />HIGASHI: That’s fine. <br />RAY: Everybody understand the logic there, that it just seems like it makes more sense to do the reapportionment before the <br />Charter Commission, to take that into account? <br />IRVINE: I thought if we were going to start messing with what the Charter Review Commission does, would we have been <br />better off if we started meeting about a year earlier and we didn’t have to meet every week? <br />RAY: No. I think I’d maybe argue the opposite that it would have been better if we would have done this is a more compact <br />fashion, and finished it up in a shorter period of time. <br />HERKES: Yes. <br />IRVINE: It took us six months to hire an attorney and a secretary. Maybe that was unnecessary. <br />HERKES: No, it didn’t take us six months to hire a secretary. <br />HIGASHI: Okay, let’s move on. <br />RAY: There was a suggestion, but we haven’t received any input in regard to mandating outcomes based budgeting. <br />HERKES: Mike Christopher was going to send us something on that. <br />RAY: But that’s certainly not anything that has to be addressed in the Charter. <br />And finally, Hawaiian issues. I guess we can all think about that. <br />HERKES: I have one. <br />RAY: Yes Marni. <br />HERKES: The Code of Ethics, in response to Del Pranke and his ‘let’s not have them if they lie’. It’s in the Maui Charter, <br />Article 14, Code of Ethics, page 32, on the Maui Charter – or I guess it’s Hawaii County. <br />‘Elected and appointed officers and employees shall demonstrate by their example the highest standards of ethical conduct to <br />the end that the public may justifiably have trust and confidence in the integrity of government.’ That, to me, answers this <br />whole scenario of elected officials that destroy trust of the public in government for their own benefit. And I have it written <br />out for you, Sharron. <br />IRVINE: This is one of the same kinds of declarations of policy that Maui seems to put in their Charter that I had looked up <br />as well, and I think it really does help. If we’re messing with a section of our Charter, to go and look and put in these <br />declarations of purpose or policy, which we did on the Police and Fire. <br />RAY: I agree with you in general. We need to pull all of this together pretty quickly. <br />IRVINE: Only where we’re modifying something anyway. I wouldn’t go traipsing through, coming up with new. <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 04-12-00.htm7/1/2011 <br /> <br />