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another community group, another set of meetings and this sort of thing, but an election <br />puts it out there, puts issues in the paper, gets it discussed and then it gets a readout <br />on the community opinion when you do the actual voting which is very different from <br />mayorally appointed. <br />RAY: Okay, thank you. Dick, you had a final comment? Make it short. <br />BOYD: Thank ya'II for coming up here tonight and listening to us. I've been to <br />thousands of these meetings and I'II tell you what, you guys have a tough job and I <br />appreciate you coming up here after a hard day's work and what not. Thank you very <br />much for being here and you too, Madam Secretary. <br />RAY: Okay, thank you. Any other comments? Yes sir. You want to just come <br />up and introduce yourself. <br />PERRY: I'II take just a couple of minutes of your time. My name's David Perry. I'm <br />from North Kohala. I think I'm a lot like you right now in this process. I'm more listening <br />and thinking and not really ready to talk but there's one issue, and I was very happy to <br />hear that there's going to be a second round of this. Maybe by then I'll be ready to talk <br />more but there's one issue that I would like to bring up briefly that hasn't been touched <br />on tonight and it is, in many ways, a logical extension of what Ken Boche was saying. <br />Has to do with the County Plan. <br />We have a revision of the County Plan coming up and also we have what I think is a <br />very significant thing happen, potentially significant thing happen last year. The <br />County Commission voted to endorse the principal sustainability on this island. Now, <br />sustainability is a word that gets bandied around to the point where it's become almost <br />meaningless but which is a shame because it is a word that's full of meaning if you <br />really begin to ask the hard questions about what it means, what it is you want to <br />sustain, what the trade offs are, involved in sustaining the various things that people <br />want. <br />Now back to the County Plan, it seems to me that this is the place and the time that we <br />begin to engage that issue but as I look at the process - <br />RAY: That's a whole separate process that is also ongoing but we don't discuss <br />the County General Plan. That's what you're speaking to? <br />PERRY: But there is in the Charter - <br />HERKES: Every ten years you have to review it. <br />PERRY: Every ten years you have to do it and there's nothing I read in the Charter <br />28 <br />