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HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSION Transcript of Meeting of February 9, 2000 Hawaii County Liquor Commission Conference Room, Hilo Lagoon Center Attendance: J. Ray, S. Bess (from 5:15 p.m.), M. Herkes, S. Irvine, G: Martin, J. Santangelo, G. Yoshiyama, Counsel C. Yuen Absent: E. Alonzo, K. Balog, R. Higashi, D. Kurozawa And 12 members of the public in attendance. The meeting was called to order at 5:05 p.m. RAY: I'd like to call the February 9th meeting of the 1999-2000 Hawaii County Charter Commission to order. It's 5:05 p.m. We're in Hilo this evening. Attendance. Present myself John Ray, Mr. Martin, Sue Irvine, Marni Herkes, John Santangelo and Gary Yoshiyama, and we're expecting a couple of other members. Statements from the Public. We'II proceed with our Statements from the Public. We'II lead off, Coco Pierson. PIERSON: Thank you Mr. Chair and other members of the Charter Commission. My name is Coco Pierson and I'm from Puna. I was here, I think, one time just to give you some ideas before. I recognize some of the faces. Government is more user friendly when we have tags and signs in front of people that say who they are, and that's not what you folks have here now. But you should keep that in mind to make government user friendly. The people who know you - Okay, we've got one. HERKES: RAY: No, we've got a lot of them. They're coming. Okay, glad you reminded us. Go ahead. PIERSON: You have a lot of items on your agenda today and I'm going to cover a lot of them in a very short time, and 111 start with Fire Commission. Judging from what I've seen of the Police Commission, I don't think we need a Fire Commission, and so 1 don't think there's any need for the people to vote on it. But if it goes on there, the people can tell you what they think. I don't think there's a need for one. If a Fire Commission would operate properly, yes, but certainly 1 didn't foresee, when 1 voted to form a Police Commission, that the deck would be stacked with clones of people who considered their allegiance to the appointing authority far beyond their responsibility to the public, and so I would suspect that we would might have more of that if we had a 1