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• to a certain community than others, then we'll try to accommodate that but basically we'll just go out and hold a series of four or five or six meetings again around the island as we're marching through. All proposed amendments will be voted on by the public in an election in the year 2000. There has been a certain amount of discussion initially about the possibility of holding a special election and it was really in the nature of sort of a "what if" discussion. What if we feel like we're coming up with such substantive changes to County government that that might warrant a special election so if we were to look at a special election and if we were also to look at the possibility of having an election in time to actually affect those changes in the year 2000 election. In other words, if we were to have a special election and this is, I don't think realistic but say we were going to recommend a City Manager form of government. So when would we have to hold that to actually affect that taking place sooner rather than later? Or nonpartisan elections? In other words, if we were to come forth with a suggestion for nonpartisan elections, theoretically we could have a special election in January and then the candidates in the year 2000 election would run as nonpartisan if the voters chose to vote that in. My sense and informal opinion is that logistically, it probably wouldn't even be possible to have a special election even if we wanted to. One dynamic that we didn't discuss or didn't look at initially which I've become very much aware of, is that this is, the year 2000 is a presidential election year and all the resources and apparatuses that are • really geared up to deal with presidential elections would probably preclude even being able to doa normal election unless we finished up almost immediately and got something on the decks for say January and as I explained the process, we're really just getting started in terms of marching through the Charter so I would expect, but there again, this is just an informal opinion, that we're looking at whatever suggestions we come up with on the year 2000 ballot election is how it will go. So this evening, this is meant to be just input from the general public but since we haven't gotten a whole lot of turnout, we're having a little bit of back and forth dialogue, if that's appropriate, with some of the speakers but I just want to stress that this Commission has not formally discussed anything yet in terms of Charter amendments so everything is just a possibility at this point. Our first speaker this evening is Bill Graham from Kohala representing himself. Bill. PUBLIC TESTIMONY GRAHAM: Good afternoon. I haven't prepared in depth the specific things I want you to deal with specifically or anything like that but of course, it's sort of - the mind kind of accumulates concepts and ideas over the years. First off, since you did bring up the special election thing, I would like to sort of say nay on that. I think that would be a mistake to try to do that. I think the general - •