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by mail, which is allowed by the State HRS, should be how the office is filled rather than by the Council or by the Chairman of the Council. Also, in Section 12 -1.1, Recall Procedure, under (b) it currently takes 25% of the qualified voters in the Council's district to remove their Councilmember, or 25% of the registered voters in the last general election. It may be, in the case of the Councilmember, that they were elected in the primary election. It seems rather unfair for them to have won in the primary, and then if you want to remove that person, a higher standard of qualified voters in the general election would be used. I think you need to determine whether you really mean general or you really mean primary or you mean whichever election in which that person was elected, if that was the primary or the general. Also, it's 25 %, and I think that's far too high. It's very difficult to recall somebody. I think that it should be a 15% or greater rather than 25% or greater. In Section 12 -1.3, for signatures, this is the old style signatures. In the last general election we passed the Initiative and Referendum, which made it much less likely for a person's signature to be disqualified from a petition. I would refer you to that section where instead of having their name, their signature, their residence address, and the date it was signed, we did their name, as closely as it mimics their registered name in the general ledger of the County. For instance, if you had a first name that could be shortened from Joseph to Joe and the person signed Joe, under the rules that exist here, their signature could be disqualified from the petition. I would suggest you see the Initiative and Referendum that we passed in the last general election and use that for the signature line. It's the name, the signature that closely mimics the general ledger, their address -- either mailing or residence - -and the last four digits of their social security number. It's really immaterial what day of the week or date of the month that they signed the petition because they will all be turned in simultaneously by the committee. I think you should take a look at the days for filing and certification. They may be too short, not giving sufficient time to allow the committee to take care of it. Secondly, on Impeachment, you have no definitions in this section. For those of us who are not attorneys, you have to look in something equivalent to Black's Law dictionary to understand what malfeasance, misfeasance, nonfeasance and maladministration means. Those should be well defined in this section, and I recommend Black's Law dictionary for that. And for impeachment, which is usually an illegal act, it requires 2% of the registered voters. I still think that is too high, it seem to me 1% of the registered voters would be more reasonable. Again, whether it is the general election or the primary election, I hope you have a discussion on that because it can be quite different in the number of people who are registered, and those who vote. In the case of impeachment for an illegal act, or for impeachment in general, I think that person should not be able to be re- elected to an office for at least eight years. You may want to consider, since they've done an illegal act, that they not be appointed to any office for that period of time. That concludes my comments, if you have any questions I will be available. CHR. HAITSUKA: Thank you, Ms. Ford. Do we have anybody in Waimea to testify? MS. HANANO: We have no one here in Waimea to testify. 12