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regulator here if it has to do with what is in your family and who is making money in your <br />family. The next level is sort of who your boss is. If I am the attorney, if I'm working <br />directly for a developer, and my friend, Mr. Harris, is sitting here and he is working on his <br />development, and I know I am coming in here soon, I don't see how I can be dutiful to my <br />employer, or the person I am representing, if the person similarly situated is before me? So, I <br />think there could be some clarification in terms of definition, so that one doesn't start getting <br />in to who exactly this should apply to. I think that's very important, and I think trust on this <br />island is very important, and that's what all of this goes to; also, expanding the voices. If you <br />look at the Planning Commission right now - -I consider Planning Commissions should be <br />relatively diverse in terms of environmental, cultural and economical, particularly long -term <br />economic prosperity interests - - -it is all weighed very heavily on one side. The side it is <br />weighted heavily on is not environmental or social interest. So, I think that is important; it <br />could use some clarification. <br />In terms of selection of boards and commissioners - -and this is to have it be that the Council <br />member be the appointee, rather than the Mayor. I actually disagree with this. I would <br />prefer that it say something like that the members shall be appointed by the Mayor in <br />consultation with the corresponding Council member and Community Development Plan <br />Action Committee. I think it's getting the opinion in there. I think we are moving from the <br />Mayor, a single person appointing or making the first pick, to another single person making <br />the pick. In South Kohala when they did the Steering Committee, Yvonne Lindsey, and a lot <br />of other community people all got together and went through a lengthy process and <br />recommended people to the Mayor. They were sort of like the beginning level of the <br />Community Development Steering Committee, the people who selected the people on the <br />Steering Committee. If it's the Mayor, he should be in consultation with the Council <br />member of members and the Community Development Action Committee. Again, it doesn't <br />say anybody has to chose them, but it forces people to think about who is available, and <br />coming up with a diverse group. <br />On the four -year terms, I want to just echo what has been said here. I haven't testified on <br />this provision before. I have no trouble with the four years, but I do think there is a balance. <br />If you are going to change it, then you should balance it. I feel a lot of the transparency and <br />conflicts of interest provisions that you are also looking at, and making sure that the <br />Community Development Plan is in place in there and the selection. All of these things <br />having to do with accountability and transparency help to keep things from being like people <br />are just in there, and where this little tiny hui makes the decisions. Again, I think that when <br />you are looking at these, and you are looking at the four year one, that if you are going to <br />support the four years, then you will also give the notice and more accountability and work <br />on the transparency and some of these other issues that Debbie Hecht has brought up, so <br />there is a balance there. People worked very hard to change it from four years to two years, <br />very hard. So I think there has to be recognition, why was there so much effort to do that, <br />and have some balance. <br />The rest I think are pretty quick. In terms of the redistricting change, I think that that is a <br />pretty obvious one and that should go into the Charter. In creating the standing committees <br />and putting that in, I think that is critical to go in there. This again assures a voice for each <br />25 <br />