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RAY: You have those copies for us? IRVINE: I have two copies here. RAY: That's okay. We heard it once. Why don't you read it again. IRVINE: Okay I will. I just did this a couple of hours ago. 'We the people of the County of Hawaii do hereby adopt this Charter of the County of Hawaii, State of Hawaii. This Charter is adopted to provide the framework for governing our island in a responsive and efficient manner. Our goal is to provide our elected and appointed officials guidelines for governing in a manner which instills trust and confidence in the integrity of government.' It's because Marni handed me the one from last time and — HERKES: It's all my fault. It's because Curtis said we should do this. IRVINE: Then I thought we didn't need to mention — She had in there management techniques and I thought that seemed a little bit manini for the Charter so — The business of guidelines, I think, was also in your wording. I left your wording on my computer desk. HERKES: I have it somewhere but it doesn't matter. • RAY: What's the suggestion in regard to guidelines? IRVINE: Mr. Tyler thought that — A Charter is a framework. It's not just guidelines. SANTANGELO: It's law. IRVINE: It's law. ALONZO: Shall. IRVINE: On the other hand, you can't mandate trust and confidence and the integrity of government. You can't mandate integrity so it's hard to say we shall be. • HERKES: Would it help, Mr. Ray, if I talked about the ethics because some of that wording comes out of the ethics wording? IRVINE: HERKES: And Maui Charter has a Preamble. Well, but their Preamble's not very good either. I read it. IRVINE: That's where 'We the people of the County of Hawaii' and the business about the County of Hawaii and State of Hawaii, which we may not need to be that formal. I don't know what our attorney would say. I think John Ray had mentioned very early on 21