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CHAIRMAN SAKATA: He did call me and I said, will you please send a letter or some sort of communication to the commission. Okay, fine. MRS. KOBAYASHI : Mr. Kikuchi did say that. he would be able to present to the commission today a general layout of what the tabloid, the newspaper tabloid will look like. We also discussed the necessity of posters in the voting booths that would give an explanation of what each question is. Each voting booth would have a poster. So besides the ballot that the people will be looking at, there will be a poster explaining what the amendments are about. I guess Mr. Arakaki said this budget that we are working on for publicity is not quite finished because we don ' t have the exact printing costs down. So probably by the next meeting we might have a more exact idea of what kind of budget we are working on. I believe Mr. Kikuchi ' s estimated cost for the graphics , he says, will be between $3,000 and $3 , 600 and this figure does fall within the $4,500 figure as the ceiling limit that we set last week. I guess we need the commission ' s action or approval to go ahead with that. Perhaps I should let Mr. Kikuchi make his presentation. MR. TRULSON Mr. Chairman. Just regarding the posters in the ballot booth. The reason for that is that we had to take the explanation of the amendment off the ballot to provide space. Therefore, by putting the explanation of the ballot amendments in the polling booth, the voter will be able to look at that poster, at the amendment, and see the explanation on it. Before, I believe, when we were first looking at the ballot, the explanation was on the ballot. They will not be now. So that is the reasoning -for this poster. MR. KIKUCHI : Right now we are looking at the 16 page supplement for the proposed charter amendments for the County of Hawaii which is scheduled to run September 16 in the Hawaii Tribune-Herald. In my conversation with Dick Withington, Advertising Manager of the Tribune-Herald, our absolute dead- line for the publication is September 5 , 1979. At that time, all materials including ballots, or sample ballots, final narrative copy, graphics , must be submitted. The paper will make available a press-proof which I will turn over to Gloria' s ,committee to proofread. If corrections are necessary on the proofs, the corrections can be read at the Tribune-Herald for a final check. In other words, when the proof is made available, if there are changes made on the proof, then it goes back to the paper and the paper will make the changes from the proof. But, in order to insure that we will catch all our errors , I would like to recommend that someone, or some persons , be appointed from the Charter Commission and the Clerk ' s office to carry out this added responsibility. -25-