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Comm. 70 : Letter from Representative Herbert Segawa, dated June 12, 1979 , submitting suggestions for charter revision. Comm. 71 : Synopsis of the functions of the Hawaii County Pension Coard as presented to the Commission, - on June 12 , 1979. Motion was made by Mr. Schutte to receive and file Communications 67 through 71. Seconded by Mr. Yagong and unanimously carried. BUSINESS CHAIRMAN. SAKATA: The business of the day is OF THE DAY: to receive the report from the subcommittee on Article III , Legislative Branch, County Council. MR. ISHIDA: As far as the subcommittee is concerned , we don ' t have a written report. We actually finished our thing this afternoon so I will be giving an oral report. If you will turn to your Article III , Legislative Branch, County Council , page 2 of the present County Charter. Basically, the provisions that we spent much time on is Section 3-2. There are some revisions on the other sections. However, I will restrict myself right now initially to Section 3-2. Composition and Terms. Through the testimony that we have had and that was digested by the subcommittee, the subcommittee was of the opinion that we are somewhat mandated by the testimony given before us to effect some type of district representation. We were informed, or we were asked to consider possibly up to nine different districts, each being represented by one council member and we had modifications thereafter concerning the number of districting. Now, as far as the subcommittee was concerned the problem that we were faced with as far as coming up with nine single districts was that we do not have, or nothing was presented to us to base any districting into nine different districts. We were given by one of the committees, one of the groups from West Hawaii using the registered voters as a basis upon which to determine different districting. Legal counsel has already informed us that he felt in his opinion that such basis would not be valid. Consequently, the subcommittee disregarded that basis. The only other basis which the legal counsel stated would probably be valid would be based upon population and census. The only census information of course we would have would be the last federal census which was in 1970. I think we were of the opinion that 1970 was somewhat too far gone so that would definitely not be valid. However, the only alternative that was available to the subcommittee concerning districting is using the present State Representative districting. That may be questioned, however, but since the districting is in existence, we were informed by -30-