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• • • We. are looking at the situation of ,how the departments. . . in the department, let ' s say, of water supply or department of research and development , department of planning, how best can they work together to serve, the people in the county? If there are changes to be made, okay, let us • know. At least we can look at it from the standpoint of these are the concerns of the people and we look at it from the . standpoint of what is best .for . the county. I 'm sure we are going to get input from people who live _in West Hawaii , East Hawaii and so on... . We want to look at it from, all standpoints and come up with the best possible solution so that the charter can serve the people the best. Not only one segment of the people but all the people in the county. This is what we are looking at. • . • We haven ' t really. made any deliberations at all now. I don ' t know what any, of these commissioners have in their minds : as to the various areas that have been-,;touched upon. I don ' t know, - but wheh "we .do, deliberate and we take a vote, then I ' ll find out their feelings and why they want to do it this way or that way. But, right now, what we want from you people is what do you want as far as representation or' anything pertaining to the charter. Then we .can deliberate. MR. KANIHO: Thank you. very much. That will help us. CHAIRMAN SAKATA: How would you want representa- tion? You are a member here in the community of Kamuela. How do you want Kamuela to be represented in the County of Hawaii? MR. KANIHO: Thank you. You have given us some good ideas. As far as the whole thing in the charter, I 'm not really familiar, but concerned. You have asked about the representation. . .the five number. would be too small to represent all . the people in Hawaii County as far as the . council portion . of the county. • CHAIRMAN SAKATA: Mr. Kan.iho, one of the concerns we have heard so much about recently. . .and here is a good example, if a person. runs from let ' s say, Kamuela, as a councilman. The people of Kamuela vote him into office but if • he were to run at-large he would have to go to Kona, go to. Hilo and he would have to go to the Ka'u District and , to all these various districts., if he runs at-large. Now even though all of you people say we want that person to represent us in .Kamuela as our councilman and he goes outside and the outside people. say no and vote somebody else in who you people don ' t want to be your councilman. . .in other words , you are voting for him here but heloses outside. ' He loses in Kdna,. heloses in Ka' u, he loses' in some of the other districts , but you people • have voted him in from Kamuela. So these are some of the things that people are looking at. If a person wins from his • district, he should rightfully represent his district. The people in .Kona shouldn ' t' tell the people in Kamuel. :, hey, that • person that won in Kamuela is not going to represent you people because we are not going to vote for him. These are some r7 • -5-