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HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSION Transcript of Meeting of October 27, 1999 Hawaii County Liquor Commission Conference Room, Hilo Lagoon Center Attendance: J. Ray, M. Herkes, R. Higashi, S. Irvine„ G. Martin, J. Santangelo, G. Yoshiyama, Counsel Chris Yuen Absent: E. Alonzo, S. Bess, K. Balog, D. Kurozawa And 5 members of the public in attendance. The meeting was called to order at 3:02 p.m. RAY: The October 27th Special Meeting of the 1999-2000 County Charter Commission is called to order. Present at this time; myself John Ray, Chair; Roland Higashi, Vice Chair; Marni Herkes; Sue Irvine; George Martin; John Santangelo; and Gary Yoshiyama, and we're expecting a couple of other folks momentarily. Statements from the Public on Agenda Items. We have two folks signed up, Statements from the Public on Agenda Items. If anybody else wants to speak on anything on the agenda, you can. First, Patrick, you want to come up and introduce yourself. KAHAWA'OLA'A: We can come up there together because it's basically the same. RAY: That's fine. And try to speak into the mike. It's not for hearing you; it's because we record all this stuff, doing verbatim minutes. KAHAWA'OLA'A: I'd like to say good afternoon to the members of the Charter Commission. It gives me pleasure to be here for the fact I see, on your New Business, which is a general review of the Charter. I think that was not available at that particular time on your agenda items, obviously, as you were going through it, I don't think you had a subject matter of a general review, but when we saw this, it compelled us to be here based in the Charter. And being that you were convened to review the Charter, myself, as a Native Hawaiian, has had great conflicts within this Charter, that I need to bring forward to this body who is going to make recommendations on how the Charter is to be revised, if any, or things that's going to happen. I specifically would like to direct all of you to ARTICLE I, Section 1-1. The geographical limits on the Island of Hawaii, and all of the islands within these shores thereof, and the waters adjacent thereto, shall be the County of Hawaii. That, in itself, causes conflicts with myself as a 1