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proceeding decides to institute recall. Would recall have to be defined or is there a specific recall process? Would we have to re-define that also? MR. ODA: Procedures generally should be defined because, again, there is nothing in the State Consti- tution that I know of that applies, or State Statutes , that applies down to the county level for recall purposes. MR. CADINHA: Thank you, Stuart. MR. OMONAKA: Would it be possible to--the impeachment proceeding that you are talking about can be a long document--would it be possible just to make reference in the charter that the county adopt an ordinance of impeachment proceedings rather than spell out the entire process? MR. ODA: Right. That can be done. MR. , SENSANO: Mr. Chairman. I 've talked to some of the people on the-former Charter Commissions and they tell me that the charter is sort of a framework , they said, of broad principles and not specifications. In other words, if everything were written in the charter it would be a long and voluminous document but I think it is well for us to think of this as sort of a guideline - of principles on which to run the county government. Like, for example, you have a blueprint of a building but your blueprint and your specifications are altogether different because the specifications will go into details as to what you may put into the building, what kind of material , whereas your blueprint is just a plan whereby you can construct the building. What kind of construction materials is not specified in the blueprint. Your specifications will take care of that. Now, Mr. Oda, is this right? That the charter is sort of a. . .these are broad principles and not specifications? MR. ODA: Like any charter, it cannot. . .as you know the charter is a broad constitution for the county. . . like the State Constitution is for the State. How specific you are going to make it is generally a discretionary matter for the commission. Generally speaking, the specifics of legislation should be left to ordinances to supplement the charter provisions. So the charter provisions, generally, should be left general for the reason that if you make it too specific, you make it in fact . . .the ordinance itself, as it was pointed out, it need not be that way unless there is a specific provision. Like, for example, there was mention of the ethics provision in the County Charter. The ethics provision in the County Charter is repeated in the County Ordinance almost word for word. It can bedone that way but in case there is a conflict between the two, the County Charter supersedes the Ordinance as the so-called parent of the particular legislation. So you can be either as specific as you want or as broad as you want. But, generally speaking, county - 14 -