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Members <br />Absent: <br />HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSION <br />Transcript of Public Hearing of March 18, 2000 <br />County Council Room, Hilo, Hawaii <br />J. Ray, S. Irvine, J. Santangelo <br />E. Alonzo, K. Balog, S. Bess, M. Herkes, R. Higashi, D. Kurozawa, <br />G. Martin, G. Yoshiyama <br />And 9 members of the public in attendance. <br />CALL TO ORDER <br />Chairman John Ray called the meeting to order at 9:05 a.m. <br />INTRODUCTION OF CHARTER COMMISSION MEMBERS <br />RAY: I'd like to call the 1999-2000 Charter Commission Public Hearing to <br />order. It's Saturday, March 1e, 9:05 a.m. and we're in Hilo today. Commission <br />members present at this time are myself, John Ray, Chair; John Santangelo; and Sue <br />Irvine. Unfortunately, I think four or five members were out of town this week, so that's <br />why we've got a pretty low showing today. <br />INTRODUCTORY REMARKS <br />RAY: I have been starting these Public Hearings with a pretty thorough <br />introduction, introductory remarks, to all the amendments, but a number of people, <br />because it's Saturday and their time constraints, have requested that they give their <br />public testimony prior to that, and I think that's okay with everybody so I'll leave it up to <br />you. If you want to go ahead and make your public testimony, we will take public <br />testimony now. If you would like to wait until after the remarks, you can do that as well. <br />PUBLIC TESTIMONY <br />RAY: <br />Ben. <br />Mike, you wanted to go ahead with your public testimony? Michael <br />BEN: Good morning. My name is Mike Ben, for the record, I guess. <br />Quickly, before I start into my testimony, I wanted to submit testimony on behalf of Rick <br />Robinson, my Civil Service Commission Chair. He wanted me to relay that the <br />Commission is very pleased that the Safety Coordinator issue of transferring the <br />1 <br />