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HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSION Transcript of Meeting of October 16, 1999 Waimea Civic Center Waimea, Hawaii Attendance: J. Ray, S. Bess (after 10:25 a.m.), M. Herkes, R. Higashi, S. Irvine, D. Kurozawa, G. Martin (after 9:26 p.m.), J. Santangelo, G. Yoshiyama, Counsel Chris Yuen Absent: E. Alonzo, K. Balog And 18 members of the public in attendance. The meeting was called to order at 9:16 p.m. RAY: The October 16th Special Meeting of the 1999-2000 Charter Commission is called to order. It's 9:16. We're in Waimea today. Following our agenda, the attendance at this time are myself John Ray, Chairman; Roland Higashi, Vice -Chair; Marni Herkes, Sue Irvine, John Santangelo, and Gary Yoshiyama, and we're expecting other members shortly. Minutes Approval. We have no minutes for approval today. We had a meeting just three days ago. Same with the Financial Status Report. It's the same as it was on Wednesday. Written Communications. None. Statements from the Public: We have a very open agenda today so anything is open for comment. This is sort of a mid-term general review, kind of where we stand. So anything you'd like to address is fair game today. We have two folks signed up, at this point, and additionally, we're going to have one or more representatives from the League of Women Voters. They should be here by about 10:00. They asked to come in and address the Charter Commission on a number of topics today. So, our first signed up member is Lesley Patton. Lesley. PATTON: I had a variety, sort of stew, that I briefly wanted to touch on, and one of them is on behalf of a number of people in Kohala. We did not receive any notification. There are several of us who watch the newspapers carefully, who get that little tiny, tiny print government bulletin thing that comes for public notices, and what have you, and last time we had received copies of the agendas in the mail so we 1