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idea and Joe said he thought it was a great idea. And every- bodv • else said they think it is a great idea. When we asked them, when are you going to do it? Oh, hoomanawanui , you know. MR. ISHIDA: But the council was not responsive . MR. T`1.LER o No. Indeed • CHAIRMAN SAKATA: Thank you, rr. Ty_ler. So far we have had nothing but men talk to us and' now we are going to have a woman. So you women are represented. Mrs. Virginia Isbell . MRS. ISBELL: My name is Virginia Isbell and I 'm representing the Women of Hawaii for Better Government. We are one of the five groups on this little piece of paper and I would like to remind you all it cost $800 to put it out. If you would like to donate, please feel free to. We all did it for you and you. We would also like to state to Mr. Murray who stressed "men" of integrity in government, over half the population is women and I would like to suggest that we have "women" of integrity in government ! I would also like to state that if anybody here is looking at the green book like this' (charter) it is out of date. We found that out when I appeared before you in April . That the little black book which is the law book of Hawaii , Hawaii ' s Revised Statutes , whicht has the four charters of the four different counties in the state, is out of date. It has been five years and the county hasn ' t yet sent ._the-:new .Revised County Charter to the State of Hawaii , so they really don ' t know what is going on here. It is not in the book. I would like to suggest that it be part of your duty, at the end of this charter review that when the new charter comes out there be a recommendation that within two months , at least, a new one be sent to the sta-be so that they have it in the law books, please. • We have circulated, not petitions but signatures of support papers around. We have over 200 signatures. We could have gotten many more but that is not the important thing. We do have a lot of people who support the Women of Hawaii for Better Government which states mostly what has been said here tonight. Basically, nine members. None at-large. One-man , one-vote by district representation. We also believe that it should be reviewed-- the County Charter in Honolulu has an 8 year review, and this way you don ' t wait for the census to be done which may not be as accurate as a county census which is done by the people who live here in their own districts. • ' The second thing is that we have four-year, staggered terms. And the third thing, interim appointments for -27-