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it doesn't really say what would happen in the case of an elected official. If it was the <br />Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, who would replace them, or who would replace the Mayor? <br />So I think in CA -27, it needs to say that the Mayor would be replaced by the Managing <br />Director, and the Prosecuting Attorney would be replaced by the First Deputy. Then it would <br />go to a vote by mail. I think that's important. Those are pretty much my ideas on vacancies. <br />On amending the Charter, that is CA- 12 - -and I believe you already had a recommendation on <br />amending the Charter - -this took it a little bit farther. It was to delete the second part in the <br />Charter which would be 15. l(b), and delete all that and just replace it with, `By petition, <br />which shall be the same process as outlined in Article XI, Initiative and Referendum. My <br />thought here would be that that would follow the same process and procedure as initiative <br />and referendum. <br />Going to boards and commissions, which is CA -24, what this would require would be that <br />the Council Member for each district, in the case of a district - specific board - -and there was a <br />recommendation, one of the testifiers said something about the area specific board, and <br />possibly that should be changed to district specific - -and I thought that was a very good <br />comment. This requires that the Council Member nominate one or two people, the Mayor <br />goes through a background check and transmits a report of findings with recommendations to <br />the Council within 45 days, and then the nomination would be placed on the Council agenda, <br />and that would be the public hearing end of it. I think this is real important. I don't like the <br />fact - -and I've been seeing it now for a few years - -that the Mayors appoint people to boards <br />and commissions as political pay -back. I don't think that serves our County well. I don't <br />think that the best people are tapped to be on these boards and commissions. It also requires <br />that the County maintain a web site for each board and commission on which shall be posted <br />the authorities and powers of the Commission; duties, terms of the office, and the <br />qualification and criteria for selecting members. <br />On my last amendment, which is the 2% amendment, CA -15, Nancy Crawford's testimony <br />was to be expected, I suppose. The County doesn't want there to ever be any set -aside that <br />they are not in control of. That is sort of like government versus citizens all the time. Again, <br />the County had 420 jobs in the budget, and they cut 50 of them or something like that. I <br />know there is a couple hundred jobs still in the budget they could have cut. Counties all <br />around the Country have been doing that. As far as this being an emergency; yes, it might be <br />an economic emergency. But there is a clause in the Charter that says that in the case of and <br />emergency - -an emergency to me means like tsunami, earthquake, volcano, and things like <br />that - -the Mayor can declare an emergency; but not a budgetary emergency. So, I ask you to <br />support this. The other counties; Oahu, Kauai, Maui, all have Charter Amendments doing <br />this. Yes, we asked for 2 %; yes, the people already approved it, and I think we do need 2 %. <br />That is because there is so much land for sale here. Our County is bigger than all the other <br />islands combined. So, I hope you approve that too. I will be here for questions later, unless <br />you have questions now; and I thank you for your time. <br />CHR. HAITSUKA: Thank you, Ms. Hecht. Do we have anybody in Waimea to testify? <br />17 <br />