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MS. JARMAN: And also by when things have to get to the Elections Office in order to get <br />on the ballot. I think that is really our problem. We have a time by which we have to finish <br />everything, and be able to do our public education, and get everything on the ballot. I think <br />that is where the crunch comes. <br />CHR. HAITSUKA: What is the suggestion again on the time frame? <br />MS. JARMAN: I don't actually have any strong feelings, I just thought June 1st or July 1st <br />Potentially, you are not going to have a new mayor, so it might not take so long for a sitting <br />mayor to pick as it would for a new mayor to pick; so maybe July 1st which would give us six <br />extra months to do our work. <br />MS. HONMA: I have a question, and this is for Levi actually because he said something <br />about when we start, there is a State law that says you've go to end in a year. So would that <br />mean our end date move up as well? <br />MR. HOOKANO: Correct, I was just about to say that. The State law says a year from <br />appointment, so even if you were appointed July 1, 2008, that would mean your report would <br />be due July 1, 2009. <br />MS. HONMA: So, you don't get that extra six months to actually do something. <br />MR. HOOKANO: I believe that would be correct. <br />MS. JARMAN: But, that's a report. <br />MR. HOOKANO: Right, and then there is the time for education and all of that. <br />MS. JARMAN: Because there are boards and commissions that last longer than the time that <br />we do. I don't know what that provision says. Does it just say that you have to give a report <br />within a year from the time that you are - -- <br />MR. HOOKANO: Well, the report is to contain the proposed amendments of the <br />Commission that are to go to the ballot. <br />MS. JARMAN: For the Charter Commission. <br />MR. HOOKANO: For the Charter Commission. It's kind of the final report of the Charter <br />Commission that is going to the County Council, so it has to be pretty definitive. <br />MR. UNGER: Why is this date dictating how we are established and how we go about doing <br />our business? You said it's a State - -- <br />MR. HOOKANO: The Counties are creatures of the State. The only reason the Counties <br />exist, is because the State created them. So, really the State has the authority on how the <br />Counties are run. But, they have to do it through general laws. They can't just say, Hawaii <br />29 <br />