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chartersare generally worded in a very broad language unless, of course, as I say, specific provisions are necessary where there are not those items generally covered by ordinance. Like powers of the mayor and how the county council is to be organized and elected. Things like that, generally speaking, are not in any ordinance. You have to be quite specific in the charter. In the charter provisions creating the branches of the county government, they have to be quite specific, obviously, because you don ' t generally do those things by ordinance as a matter of practice. To organize the government itself you have to be pretty specific. Asto what laws are going to be violated after the government is organized, that is left generally up to the ordinances, to put into the ordinances. Sometimes. . .if you get too broad in your language you leave more problems in there than you resolve. And more questions than you answer so the question is where to draw the line as to how broad you want to make the language. Like the problem with the impeachment thing--it just doesn ' t spell out anything and really just makes a bald-faced state- ment and there is nothing else. I guess they assume there is some other provision in the law covering impeachments but sometimes when you put language like, "as provided by law" it ' s really coming down to a cop-out from the legislative standpoint because he doesn ' t have the time or he can ' t work out the specific provisions, he just puts "as may be provided by law" and is really passing the buck to somebody else. Because you either don ' t know how to work it out, or you have time problems or it is too controversial, or whatever, and it is left hanging in the air. ADJOURNMENT: There being no further business , the meeting was adjourned at 5 : 37 p.m. until Tuesday, March 27, 1979 at 3 : 30 p.m. , Hawaii County Councilroom. Joan Carnett RECORDING SECRETARY - 15 -