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coast, what's left of prime AA water, or whatever category it is for high quality - -are moving in there. I'm not really opposed to it; there really is just no supervision, or who on the County looks out for that. So, if there were a way to say something --I don't know what the distance is to Maui, but half the distance to Maui-just say that this is included within the jurisdiction of Hawaii unless limited by State statute or constitution, so you allow if they're taking it out. A lot of community meetings going on in Kawaihae are all about the major development that is happening right at Kawaihae harbor and off north Kohala with various different fishing - -- They're farming out there, there are fish farms off our coast that somehow seems like there should be some accountability or jurisdiction by the County. On the diacritical marks, and whether that should be an amendment, I think it was Ashida that said that grammar, or spelling didn't need to be an amendment, and I agree with that. There was a question as to reviser of ordinances, and what that meant, and I don't know what that means, so I don't whether you have answered that question. One of the bigger issues was really what is the role of resolutions. This was around page 25 to 27, all of this, I just took one of your meetings; this is April. There were comments from the administration and one comment was maybe we shouldn't have resolutions on one side, or, we should just say resolutions are just conveying information about an existing ordinance. I think that generally, limit it that its prime function is to be public policy through legislation. I disagree with restricting it further. I think that it gets too black and white, law, and here is the ordinance, versus not speaking. Those resolutions allow that middle area for people to speak. For example, there were two hearings this session that really had to do with State legislation that was important. They were probably two of the most highly attended County Council meetings. One was, well anyways, what comes to mind is the GMO, or preemption issue and maybe the fair election issue. I'm not sure what they all were. But these were all people - -where we here can't just drive to Honolulu - -and it gave sort of a forum for people to speak and feel that they were heard. That was probably the furthest, where say where you didn't even have something going on in this County, but certainly a lot of people felt it was important and it provided a forum. I also think it gives- -where there is a resolution, therefore it's not required, but one of the ways where there is a resolution about something -- asking even the administration or encouraging something - -is that then they are more accountable, and if they don't go along with it, then they state their reason why they don't, rather than it being something that's ignored. So, I just encourage you not to limit further that area, resolutions. If you were to cut it out, you would have far more dissention, and people doing things that are more - - -I'm going to use the word violent, but I don't' mean that in a - - -I mean where they don't know what to do with their emotion, and don't know how to express it. This provides a vehicle for sentiments that may not be in the majority, but at least they feel that they've been heard. Another issue was whether there should be separate attorneys for the Council and the Administration. I know that Corporation Counsel Ashida said he was opposed to that. I feel that there really should be something, say more like Maui does. They have a Maui Office of Council Services, and they do have a separate attorney that is not sitting there getting everything okayed by the one that is working for the administrative branch. It's still that corporation counsel entity would handle any litigation, and that seems to be the difference. 3