Laserfiche WebLink
duties of the reapportionment commission but it cannot stop <br /> by merely filing that with the county clerk. It would be in <br /> effect a charter amendment and has to go to the voters for <br /> approval. So in that sense you can put whatever you want in <br /> there as far as its duties go, to give them the authority to <br /> redraw lines and add seats or take away seats, you can go <br /> that far, as far as you want , you know, but it would be a <br /> charter amendment and has to go for a vote. <br /> MR. SCHUTTE: But then again if we look at it <br /> from what Mr. Sensano was trying to describe, on a nine man <br /> council you would have the numbers and it would just be a <br /> matter of redesignating the boundary lines. <br /> MR. ODA: That ' s right. So that is why I am <br /> saying the traditional concept of a reapportionment commission <br /> is a 'mechanical function. All they do is--I don ' t mean to <br /> simplify it, but their primary function is to redraw lines. <br /> MR. SCHUTTE: Well , as Mr. Sensano also <br /> referred to Mrs. Isbell ' s=West Hawaii Women ' s group came up <br /> with a proposal. They had it broken down to nine districts <br /> and I believe the equivalent of each district, each of the <br /> nine, was some 4,000 .-(thousand) and some odd individuals and <br /> they held out so many of the -electorate from one district to <br /> equal it up but it was contiguous so that it would be no <br /> problem in doing something like that. But it is a possibility <br /> and it is a matter of relocating boundaries and moving, I <br /> think she moved two precincts out of district 1 to district 2 <br /> and they had it set up and they moved two others from out of <br /> another district and then it just fell in line. So what <br /> they were talking about in their Presentation was just moving <br /> four different precincts and it came out to an average of <br /> 4, 400-4,800 voters in any given district of nine districts <br /> that they had suggested. <br /> MR. CADINHA: Mr. Oda, can a commission divide <br /> the island by seven, does it have to be nine? The reapportion- <br /> ment, can we reapportion by seven? <br /> MR. ODA: i don ' t believe I understand what you <br /> are saying. <br /> MR. CADINHA: In other words , is the number of <br /> councilmen that we decide on initially, does that determine <br /> whether we have the reapportionment commission or not? <br /> MR. ODA: It doesn ' t. <br /> RECESS : At 4: 00 p.m. the Chair called for a short recess. <br /> RECONVENE : At 4: 15 p.m. the meeting was reconvened. <br /> -18- <br />