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<br />then it would be tabled until you come to the point where it's going to be written down, possibly
<br />put in Charter form, and then, once again, discussed and voted on, I guess a second time, to say,
<br />yeah, that's what we wanted to do. That's what we was thinking about. Let's go with it. But
<br />then you also made mention that if you had public input, you possibly would change your mind.
<br />Did that ever happen where you guys went about doing your business, putting it down, taking a
<br />vote on it, then going out to the public, gathering information, having some sentiment on possibly
<br />that particular subject, and changing your mind?
<br />L'ORANGE: Yeah, we took public input before there were any votes.
<br />MARTIN: Okay.
<br />YUEN: Yeah, they -.
<br />MARTIN: I was misunderstood then; I thought that -.
<br />YUEN: Yeah, the Commission went around the Island before it ever voted on
<br />anything.
<br />The other thing, I think that -, say, one set of things would be on the action agenda for a
<br />particular meeting so, you know, once that was dealt with, you move on. And, you know, people
<br />can always -. If somebody comes and they, you know, make the effort to come to your hearing
<br />• and they want to talk about something that you've already dealt with, well, you know -.
<br />MARTIN: Yeah.
<br />YUEN: We would let them testify but not necess -, you're not going to go back
<br />unless somebody, you know, unless somebody on the Commission really wants to do that.
<br />MARTIN: I guess one last question. Pertaining to what was mentioned already earlier
<br />about we had briefly discussed the possibility of a special election, and then we mulled it around
<br />as to formatting that particular issue, and what came up was, well, State law supercedes. And it's
<br />my contention, and possibly some other Commissioners here that if this is a County Charter and it
<br />deals directly with County and nothing pertaining to the State, do we not have maybe some
<br />leeway that we could take a look at something different? Did you ever come up with anything
<br />like that where State law, like you was mention that one head -, you guys had to put in, it's
<br />15 actually, provides that the Charter Commission prepare the ballot format for amendments it
<br />proposed, you know. You guys actually said, okay, there's a State law. We want to make a
<br />change here, and thank you for doing it, and we'll make the decision this time pertaining to what
<br />we have.
<br />YUEN: Gee, I have to look at that, because I'm not sure that State law says
<br />anything about -. You know, the Charter says something, the Commission can ask for a special
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