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should, devote more of a budget is in regard to the process for printing and educating - HERKES: That's where I was heading. That's what I would suggest. RAY: Sharron Henry has done some initial research and gotten some costs together. We could follow up on that. Roland. HIGASHI: I was going to the point of that. We should get the sample of what they did last year and if we did any advertising, in trying to publicize what was in the Charter, we should get samples of that. At least we'd have some idea what was done in the past, and then price that out. HERKES: I think that ten years ago, we didn't have webs. We didn't have e- mails. We didn't have the Na Leo. We didn't have a bunch of things that we have now, so in that context, there's probably not going to be a lot that's relevant. RAY: Well, I don't know if that's true. My sense is we're still going to be beholden to paper and postage, and have to send out physical material and notices, and I don't think we can rely on - I mean, we can enhance our effort with all those other mediums, but I still think we're going to have to print up the brochures, mail them out, pay for a certain amount of advertising as well. HERKES: We might want to look at a budget for what we're going to do. YUEN: If I could just make a suggestion. I think we'll want to run a newspaper ad in the Tribune -Herald, the West Hawaii Today. It will probably be a full page which will be the digest, or summary, of all the Charter proposals. I think it probably can be done in a page. It might require a double truck, but most likely it would be a page. We could also price out the mailing to all registered voters. The digest itself, or the pamphlet itself, is not that expensive. Would probably be a couple of thousand if it's professionally done. And if it's amateurly done, it can be done basically for free. So if we could get that, then we'd know, kind of, the minimum. And those would be the big ticket items. And then we would decide if we wanted to run the newspaper ad. We could run it once or we could run it twice probably. HERKES: We just need to start looking at what the costs are and put something down on paper. RAY: Sharron has done that. HERKES: Good. We just haven't seen it. RAY: Right. HERKES: Okay. 15