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completely defeats a lot of highway safety issues. It is absolutely illegal, it's ridiculous, and <br />it was wholeheartedly approved by the council services of City and County of Honolulu. <br />I've called them out on this publicly, it's absolutely ridiculous, and judiciary agrees with me. <br />They have, behind the scenes, told them, you better not even begin to try and implement that <br />ordinance. So, it doesn't guarantee that we will get better legal representation necessarily. <br />Standing Committees, I think it would probably be proper to put this into the Charter. There <br />was one thing that I saw in there; I didn't see that it mandated that all Council business goes <br />to a committee unless there is some legitimate reason such as receipt of Federal grants and <br />funding, where it should be waived to the full Council. I think that's very important because <br />you can put this into the Charter- -and again we're beginning to clutter up the Charter- - <br />whether it's seen as needed or not by the majority of the voters, will it accomplish what you <br />are trying to do, which is to get most of these issues before the standing committees and the <br />business hashed out and resolved more or less at that level; and the Council meetings would <br />go a little bit quicker, they could deal with more business. <br />There are several things here that are sort of related; the boards and commissions, the <br />electronic listing of items and items on the bulletin boards. I want to make a point on this. I <br />don't know if - - -I'm not going to ask to do anything improper here, but I'll just throw it out as <br />kind of a suggestion. If I were to ask this entire room if the people here know who serves on <br />the County Housing Agency, that board. If all of the people here would know, or if a few of <br />them would know. What I found out is that almost nobody knows, except the journalists and <br />the people who work in the county. Who actually serves on that executive agency <br />committee, is our County Council. And what I've also found, is that when people vote, <br />nobody is aware of that. Out of about 20 personal friends that I've questioned on this, they <br />are not even aware of it. So, the importance of that is that this is the actual agenda that gets <br />posted, and on the cover page it doesn't even list the council members. It is important to <br />have proper notice of all board meetings. I would possibly change my vote on whoever I <br />vote for my district, based on their abilities to handle public housing issues; homeless issues, <br />affordable housing. This is a very big thing in our community. I think the largest capital <br />improvement investment we have gotten into is out in Waikoloa. It is a huge matter; enough <br />said on that. <br />Same thing with the boards and commissions web site. The more we can expand public <br />participation, and the more meaningful, to give people time to look into the issues so they <br />don't do what I'm doing right now. I'm not very well informed of these things that I'm <br />speaking about. <br />I may have mixed up the special counsel in CA -32 with the subject I spoke on earlier, but I <br />think you know my meaning on that. That's about it. I guess CA -34, I might have mixed <br />that also, the budgetary independence of the Legislative Auditor. <br />The recall one, I support. I spoke on that earlier. Thank you very much. <br />CHR. HAITSUKA: Thank you, Mr. Rees. We are going to take a speaker from Kona. Who <br />is up first? <br />13 <br />