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VAN DYKE : No, that was about the extent of the . . . BETHEA: If anything occurs to you, just drop us a line because we ' d very much appreciate your comments . We do want to end up with as clean a document as we can. And if there are no further questions , we thank you. (Recess . ) VII . WORK PLAN PRESENTATION/DISCUSSION By Patricia Poppe and David Fuertes Fuertes continued to discuss the mission statement and its need to be broad. He reminded commission members to look ten years down the road and see what the County' s ultimate goals should be. Poppe suggests we question how the Charter works and discover its strengths and weaknesses , the key factor being to insure voters understand everything. We should continue our self-education program. Bethea suggested getting to know other systems as well as our own and questioning whether we should retail our present form of government or change it . Cushnie suggested this mission statement : "We are here to provide through the Charter the structure necessary to allow the County of Hawaii to meet the challenging needs of our peole , with efficiency and sensitivity. " She noted it was up to us to provide the legal structure and verbage when working on the Charter revision. Omanaka stressed the importance of having as many departmental and outside presentations as possible. L' Orange suggested discussing time frames to enable the review commission to "fit in" as much as possible . VIII . SETTING OF NEXT MEETING The next meeting is scheduled for March 8th at 3 : 30 p.m. in the Liquor Commission conference room. Members were reminded to work on a mission statement in preparation for discussion. IX. ADJOURNMENT The meeting was adjourned at approximately 6 : 50 p.m. Respectfully submitted, 2,27epize.)*,,,,,Qaddia-- R. Marie Jaco - 123