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• tried to abolish our Redevelopment Agency by resolution, we bad to tell them that they didn't have the authority to do so, and it was kind of embarrassing for everyone. So some provisions should be included. Finally this question of Legal Notice. Several places in the Charter, I think six or seven when I counted, talk about putting notice in two newspapers of general circulation in the County. The State -, last year's legislature, passed what they call Act II, which said that all notice would be as determined through a process developed by the State Comptroller. The State Comptroller went out to bid. The consortium in which the Tribune -Herald, the Advertiser Star Bulletin, and West Hawaii Today were involved, the guy got lost and came in four minutes late; the bid was not opened, and we have this Mid -Week publication that you see in 7-11s and around, there's public notice in it. We took the position that we were going to follow our Charter and continue to advertise in two newspapers of general circulation in the County. The State went to war with us over that. And this year's legislature passed a bill, which has not yet been signed by the governor but probably will, that says irrespective of any Charter, ordinance, statute, whatever, we must provide notice in accordance with State law. So my recommendation is that these -, where these things are found, these two newspapers of general circulation, that they be taken out and some statement be made that notice will be provided as required by law. RAY: Okay. WURDEMAN: I guess that's all. RAY: Okay. Thank you, Richard. Any other questions? IRVINE: Unfortunately, I do have a couple of other questions. You went past that business about the Police Commission being charged with investigations. Is that something that's just no longer of any use because of the fact that there will be litigation one way or another? WURDEMAN: Well, that's -. IRVINE: And maybe we should just have -. WURDEMAN: Just one consideration and the -. Presently, they have a private firm that goes out and investigates and reports, and that report falls into the hands of the people that sue us. But that's not the main consideration. The main consideration is that they go through great effort and expense to investigate these cases and they -, most of them are not sustainable. But occasionally they sustain one, where they find that the officer committed some improper act. And because their finding is entirely independent of the collective bargaining process and of the grievance process, the Department, what they do, may or may not reflect -. They may do, they may choose to do nothing, they may do something. The citizen never really knows. The citizen is 22