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CHR. HAITSUKA: We also have Comm. 256.1 which was forwarded to us subsequent to that. Do I have a motion to file these communications? Mr. Kealoha moved to file Comm. 256 and Comm. 256.1. Seconded by Mr. Unger CHR. HAITSUKA: Is there any discussion? Mr. Hookano. MR. HOOKANO: Mr. Chair. CHR. HAITSUKA: My understanding of the process is that we have to address the report at our next meeting. Is that the process? MR. HOOKANO: The members of the ad -hoc committee can present the report at this meeting; kind of let the whole commission know what they worked on. But the deliberation and decision - making has to take place at the next meeting. So at this meeting, the members of the ad -hoc committee can brief the entire commission on their activities and what they did, but that's about it. After that, it is postponed to the next meeting. CHR. HAITSUKA: Ms. Jarman, will you brief us on the activities of the ad -hoc committee? MS. JARMAN: I'll just give a brief report. First I'd like to thank all the members of the committee. We, on very short time, all got together on a rainy day at Alapaki's; and I would like to thank Alapaki for providing avenue for us. So, we met on May 28, 2010 as a group and a lot of good ideas were set out at the meeting. We did some brainstorming and then after the brainstorming different commissioners agreed to do some follow up work on our ideas. The recommendations here are things that we agreed to at our first meeting assuming that the follow up questions sort of supported our recommendations. I won't read them because everyone has them in front of them. But, since Sue Dursin is there, I did talk to Sue and she spoke to the League Board to see whether or not they would be willing to take the first crack at drafting the proposed language for the pamphlet. But, ultimately, we as a commission would vote on it. So they would be happy to do that. Another thing we talked about in terms of giving presentations was that one of the issues was that we can't go to every single community meeting or community event. But we thought that we could all agree that we would at least make a few presentations, and we also thought that we should do them in pairs or groups of three when at all possible. So that was something that was important to us. And then the distribution of the information and the pamphlets through all the traditional media and the political blogs and we want to do enough pamphlets so we can actually get them out so that a lot of people have access to the pamphlets as well as putting them on the websites. Alapaki had a really good idea about tapping high school and college students to stimulate interest in the amendments also and encouraging them to participate in the political process so there would be some duel benefits from that. So that is a summary of our recommendations. It was a wonderful committee to work with and I appreciated everybody. 12