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MR. TRULSON: Mr. Kaniho, as long as it pertains to the charter. MR. KANIHO: I understand your rules are pretty broad but for me, especially, I don ' t really know how broad they are. I feel a little bit broad is a good thing but I would like to see certain things come to a point that will give the people their=l,rights instead of the commission making their own amendments and that ' s about it , you know, without public hearing. My understanding, also, is that if there are any amendments to come out they will be before the public very little. I under- stand that they will be on a voting ballon because it is such a short time. It is now May and you want to get it out in November and it is pretty difficult but I still don ' t think it is an excuse that we don ' t get all the information. I know you have been out before the public but the commission is not giving us what the people are saying. We would like to know what the others are saying, too. I 'm sure we would like to support them and we would like to improve some areas which need to be improved. Sometimes we think maybe it is not worthwhile to argue at this time and that is why I am here. I want to get more things out. If the board can give us some idea about the meetings and on the heavy things , maybe it will give the people who will speak behind me more chance to talk about it. I think it would be difficult for me to come up with something but in the meantime while I am talking to you this will give the people in the back here who want to speak more on what they want to talk about. If you can give us any idea, I don ' t know if the: board is permitted to--are, you permitted to give us any idea from the past hearings so the people in the back who want to testify, you know, it would be helpful to the others? Or to themselves. CiHAIRMAN SAKATA: Mr. Kaniho, right now, what we are trying to do is get public input. In other words , all the public hearings we have gone through and from public testimony and the meetings we have conducted , what we are trying to do is get input from the people. So far, we have had some of the following concerns : , 1_. Representation. Do you want district representation? Do you want at-large representation for the councili Or do you strictly want no at-large councilmen? What do you want? Just strictly from their districts , representing their districts and elected from no one outside? Also, we talked about the possibility of instead of having nine councilmen, seven councilmen. Some have maintained . why have nine, why not have seven. Some of them are saying, why don ' t we go into a city manager type of situation rather than the mayor-council type. Some of them have voiced their opinion that we should go back into the board of supervisor, chairman situation. Also, we talked about the tax base. What should be the best tax base. The Kona people are really concerned -3-