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• WEST HAWAII COMMITTEE COUNTY CHARTER REVIEW RECOMMENDATIONS AUGUST 9, 1989 The West Hawaii Committee has functioned continuously since 1970. Their basic purpose is to help make West Hawaii a better place in which to live by active participation in civic affairs. Specific purposes include, but are not limited to the following: A. To initiate,develope, research, foster and and promote programs to meet various civic needs in the fields of planning, economic developement, health, recreation and education. B. To vigorously influence, in, a non-partisan fashion, the County ( and State, when required) executive and legislative • governmental branches to govern and legislate for West Hawaii as perfectly as can resonably be expected. C. To establish and maintain close relationships with government officials,_ _civic organizations and_service organizations to further the above. For those not familiar with West Hawaii Committee, a close analogy, to its' functionings might be the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, the Foreign Affairs Council of New York City, or, closer to size, the round table in front of many coffee shops in small Mid-Western towns. Our membership comes from diverse backgrounds but have one trait in common: they are or have been successful in their chosen fields. They have learned to examine problems from several different perpectives and arrive at a mutually agreeable position. That is the process followed in preparing the testimony we are pleased to present to you today. In preparing our testimony to this commission, we wish to call attention to thoserights apparently spelled out in the United States Supreme Court interpretations of the U.S. Constitution commonly referred to as " one man - one vote"representation and further refined by the State of Hawaii in Travis-vs-King, 1982 . 493