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Charter Commission -1 July 13, 2018
<br />agencies, mostly with families involved in the Child Welfare System. Currently, I
<br />work at the Legislative Research Branch, LRB. So, though you see me sitting
<br />here before you, there's a team of us, Leslie, Susan, and Donna are my
<br />counterparts, that you probably had the pleasure of working with as well, and
<br />together, we hope to serve you guys very well. So, whatever you need, we're
<br />here for you.
<br />CHR. ADAMS: Thank you so much. Don't leave because I'm going to see—
<br />well, since you're here, let me just make sure—are there any questions from the
<br />commissioners for either Mr. Yoshimoto or Mrs. Magnuson? Okay, great. Thank.
<br />you. Mr. Henricks, if you would like to say a few words.
<br />MR. HBNRICKS: First of all, this is a privilege for us but also, kind of good
<br />because we really don't have much choice in a lot of ways. We're taking on,
<br />basically, an extra Council here with the work that you folks are doing. The hard
<br />part for that is its lot more work, quite frankly. We expect you guys to work hard,
<br />and I know you will, that's why you're here. But, at the same time, as Shannon
<br />said, what we've set out to do is to share that work, for the most part. We'll have
<br />our respective roles that are carved out in the rules that you have before you, but,
<br />there's a lot of people that will be working with us, including Tiffany, our County
<br />Clerk, Stewart, Council Services, everybody here. All the things that you folks
<br />need to do to get your job done is what we do every day. So hopefully, by sharing
<br />the responsibilities, we'll be able to take this on and do a good as job as we do for
<br />the Hawai`i County Council.
<br />For myself, my background is that I started working for a wonderful mean named
<br />Fred Holschuh many years ago as his aide. He was a Council Member
<br />representing Hamakua and. I've kind of stuck around and done a lot of things in
<br />this building and I've had the privilege to be the Deputy Clerk for the last three
<br />years. So, I kind of dip my hands in a little bit of everything, so, I really look
<br />forward to this process, as J said, and working with all of you and getting to know
<br />you. You'll get an email with my cell phone nun-iber in it so that you can text or
<br />call me any time. You'll get some training today. It's hard though, getting this
<br />kind of training in this setting, so, what I really want to do is just open it up to
<br />any time you have any questions, you're interested in anything at all, J's opened
<br />himself up, I do the same. It's not a bother. Sunday morning, 7:00, give me a
<br />call, I'm up. I enjoy what we do here and I'm happy that you're all are here doing
<br />it with us. Some of you have more experience in these matters, others not so
<br />much. That won't preclude you from being full participants. You'll have us to
<br />make sure that you can get everything you can out of this experience and do
<br />everything you can.
<br />Very briefly, my background, beyond professional, being here—l'rn from Hilo. I
<br />was born in that hospital up the hill. My family's here. This community means a
<br />lot to me. This job means a lot to me. This building means a lot to me. I'm very
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