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more work for the County? 4110 TANAKA: On the one hand, I guess I'm looking at staff because I work closely with our staff in getting the information, getting all of the preliminary agendas together, or helping to organize, so definitely, it would probably require additional staff personnel on the Kona side. From the Commission standpoint, the Commissioners, as far as the workload, I guess it would decrease if you set the boundary across the island and one Commission would consider only the issues on the East side and other on the West side. I wonder if there would be enough tp even have monthly meetings on the East side. As it is, it's pretty light right now. Then too, would you have enough interest by the public to serve on these Commissions, if that were the case, too. Good question. RAY: Roland. HIGASHI: Leonard, in Oahu, how do they operate? TANAKA: I think Oahu is the only one that is advisory. I believe the rest of the islands have similar powers like we do. RAY: Gary. YOSHIYAMA: I have a question regarding the composition. We've got 9 Members now, but from the 6 representative districts and 3 at large; or something to that effect, right? RAY: It was changed. TANAKA: On the Planning Commission? RAY: Yes. YOSHIYAMA: Regarding the organization of the Commission, regarding workload, have you considered, rather than revising the Charter, reorganizing the Commission to handle - a creation of sub -committees or something like that, or do you do that already? TANAKA: As far as the workload, I don't think it's an issue with any of the Commissioners right now. I think having the two meetings a month has improved our schedules a lot. Again, we're meeting on the average, a half a day, so those of us who have businesses can attend the Commission meetings in the morning and then go back to work, if we choose, in the afternoon. So from the Commission standpoint, I don't think it's a problem as far as workload. As far as segregating the duties, whenever we