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minutes 04-12-00Page 25 of 26 HERKES: Isn’t that a wonderful thing. We came down 12 months and you finally came up with that. I have a teleconference phone. YUEN: But it can be done. MARTIN: It’s not a problem. I probably could arrange that. Use the Union Hall. RAY: And when are you going to be gone, Sue? IRVINE: I’m leaving on the 12th. RAY: For how long? IRVINE: I’m not coming back until the 28th. HERKES: We need to take a vote. I move that we stick with the 10th. RAY: Well, I’d say we meet on the 10th. HERKES: Yes. RAY: You can’t pick a perfect date. And there are a bunch of people that aren’t here that we don’t know what their schedules are either. IRVINE: I was just trying to be nice. HERKES: Can I ask a question? KUROZAWA: John, I seriously could look into whether we could do it by video conference. We could do it Hilo Hospital. We could actually do it from Kona if we didn’t want to drive over, and if we can find a place in San Francisco to hook up into. The State says it can do it for us if it’s okay. If we couldn’t do it, then I won’t look into it. RAY: Does it have to be video conference or can we just - YUEN: Let me look into it. I’m pretty sure it’s by video conference hook-up that we’re talking about. It’s an awkward way to have a meeting. If everything’s been discussed and you’re primarily there to vote, then I think that works. In other words, I wouldn’t encourage us to have the major meeting where the Kona people stayed in Kona and the Hilo people stayed in Hilo, but if we were trying to get somebody who’s on the mainland, so that they can vote, then it can be done. It’s just a matter of logistics. It’s legal to do it, though. I wanted to clarify that because I said earlier, in response, that you had to be here to vote, but there is this exception. RAY: George, when do you leave? MARTIN: The 29th, the morning of. HERKES: I wanted to ask about meeting attendance. There’s nothing that I could find that says you have to attend meetings, and everybody makes mistakes. Everybody makes commitments that they can’t fulfill, and things happen. There’s really no way to resign from this Commission. I suppose you could, and nobody’s resigned. We have at least two that haven’t come to meetings for six months. So I would suggest that we make, in our notes somewhere, a suggestion to the next Charter Commission that they put in their rules some way to replace Charter Commission members who cannot attend meetings, or who do not attend meetings. It’s hard on everybody to have to come because then there might not be a quorum. So it puts the responsibility on the rest of us to attend. YUEN: You’d have to put it in the Charter that a Commission would have the power to kick out members who didn’t attend so many meetings because, at present, it says that you can resign. You have the right to resign. And the Mayor can remove a Commission member. But those are the two ways. file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 04-12-00.htm7/1/2011