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r KUROZAWA: John, just one thing. Actually, if we're getting prices for paper, you know there's a free mailer, the West Side Weekly, that comes to the P. O. box. It's through West Hawaii Today. It's basically a mailing that goes to every P. O. box, as far as I understand, which may get to more people. A lot of people don't buy the paper and read it. And I don't know if the Hilo side has something like that. It comes once a week and has all the flyers in it. RAY: We'II start looking into that and figure out what all the options are, and then discuss it. Item No. 6, Communications. In our packets today is a variety of correspondence, testimony on specific Charter recommendations. There's a summary put together by Sharron Henry in regard to public hearing input. There's the Hawaii Redevelopment Agency documents, or testimony from Mr. Wurdeman, and then a letter, or testimony, from the Hawaii Portuguese Chamber of Commerce on the Charter Amendments. Unfinished Business, General Review of the Charter. I'm not sure how to go about this. What I did, and I know some of you have done this in part, or in total, and we've got this information from Sharron - all I did in preparation for pulling all of this together was just to make a handwritten list of everything I could think of to write down that had come up, either in testimony or things that maybe we had discussed, or maybe things I had thought of, and I could - IRVINE: Should we go by number, our nineteen numbers? RAY: of order here. Yes, otherwise we're not going to be able to keep any semblance IRVINE: That's the way I did it, so I guess it would be easier, but I have, kind of, an overall comment having done, sort of, what you did. I just tried to take in everything that's been said to us. I did try to apply it to the 19 areas we're looking at, and then 'other', and some people did talk to us about overall philosophy — what were we trying to do. And I thought it was good to think about that because I've, sort of, come to the conclusion that I've put in an awful lot of time on this, and we've come up with a lot of ideas, but unless they're really going to change something significantly, don't think we should clutter up our ballot for the voters, because I think it's going to get confusing, and just plain turn people off if we have anything that's more than necessary on the ballot. RAY: So, do you want to go through your list? How about if I go through HERKES: IRVINE: How about if you just start at 1 and ask for comments? Start at number 1 and let's see. 16