2000-07-12 Charter Commission Minutes

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Charter Commission - Transcript of Meeting of July 12, 2000Page 30 of 45 things just for them. RAY: It seems pretty broad to me. ‘Experience as required of this office’. I think the Mayor’s just got to make a case that this is a person that’s capable and experienced enough to fulfill the office. I don’t think – HIGASHI: Okay, Mr. Chair. We’ll just move along. HERKES: I have ‘work on language’ as a note. RAY: So, you’re okay? HIGASHI: I’m okay. YUEN: I just want to make sure we clarify it in the record and see if there’s a consensus of members that the language here is meant to include, to take one example, substantial business experience would qualify. Is that something – I’m just trying to get a sense. RAY: Yes. Okay, so you understand what Chris just said? Okay. The record will show that we are looking at a broad interpretation of this. Okay? Okay. Now we’re going to move into the issue of taking all this out to the public, and discussing at least some ball park figures, dollar wise, in regard to doing that. Marni and I have met and discussed some different strategies so I guess I can just share that with you. Sharron has worked up some costs related to some of that. I think the biggest issue that we need to look at is in terms of a major advertising piece. We initially, I think, were sort of focused on, or anticipated, or talked about and got some figures for doing a direct mail piece, and we got figures on that. It’s pretty substantial. And I think we got some fairly negative feedback from the County Clerk in regard to that, and I think a number of us started to rethink that, and we looked at costs of running full page ads in not only the West Hawaii Today, but the Tribune Herald and some other key publications island-wide, and comparing that and finding that you could run three to four sets of full pages ads for considerably less than it would cost to do the mail-out brochure. So, what we’re proposing is that we print up a simple brochure similar to what Sharron put together as a draft item. And if it were done on this simple paper, white or colored paper, 50,000 of these would only cost $1,600 - $1,700, something like that. And the rough strategy we came up with was that if that’s the way we decide to go, we get these things in the works immediately, it takes about 30 days turnaround time to come up with the brochures. In the meantime, we do a mail-out with all this information to our targeted list of 250 or so community and civic organizations around the island. So we get that information out to them right away. Of course, we get the information up on the website right away. HENRY: It’s on there. RAY: it’s on there. HERKES: And then, John, did we talk about how to let people know the information is on the website? I mean it’s great to have it there but people don’t normally look at our website. So I think some publicity – I don’t think we did much of that. RAY: One way is through the correspondence to all the civic groups and organizations, and then we’re hoping, of course, that they’ll take this item and they’ll print up more copies and distribute them and get file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 07-12-00.html7/1/2011