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5/23/79 Meeting opinion and try to think of all the ramifications or applications of the various provisions of this particular chapter; then when you testify before the Charter Commission, in addition to oral testimony you could submit as an exhibit and evidence transcribed copies of all of your discussion to the Charter Commission and ask them to incorporate those documents into their considerations if you want to do that, but that's up to you; I 'm just telling you that. You see, look at this agenda everything on there is what does the corporation counselsay, what is the opinion from the corporation counsel , you send everything upstairs to us and we have to interpret. Frequently, we have to interpret policies which is not our prerogative or jurisdiction; unless we know what the drafters meant, we are just giving you our opinion • and not what you want it to mean. TANAKA: Thank you. Again, I just want to refer back to the testimony that I did make to the County Charter Commission; and on the second page, Mr. , Commissioner Ishida . asked me and I 'd like to read that again because I think that was the most important point: Just a point of information, Mr. Tanaka. When the water commission does, in fact, arrive at a position will the party who appears before us be prepared to give the rationale as to why the position that is taken by the organization? Many times peopleappear before us and just state positions and they do not give us a rationale as to why they think their position should be honored. So I would like you to take that into consideration when your commission does, in fact, arrive at a position. Okay. So I just wanted again, too, to mention on that; I 'm sure that the Charter Commission members are very interested in you know again, too, the rationale behind any of our considerations and recommendations to them. Okay, moving on: Section 8-2. Water Commission. The water commission shall consist of nine members who shall be appointed by the mayor with the approval of the council in the manner prescribed in Section 13-4. Commission membership shall be representative • of the community and of the county geographical areas of Puna, Kau, Kona, Kohala, Hamakua, and Hilo. The Manager o1 the department of water supply, the planning director and the chief engineer of the county or their designated representatives shall serve as ex-officio members of the water commission without power to vote. The water commission shall : Up to there, again, referring back to Mr. Fujimoto's testimony to the Charter Commission. You had some suggestions over there; would you like to • clarify to us? -4-