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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -3 September 14, 2018 that's going to get our County where it needs to be to be that place to live, work, and visit in 20 years, making sure that we don't just get there because we got there, but we got there because we wanted to be there. MS. LEY: Excellent question. I would say the title of the department speaks to that to some degree and then I think it is a function of from there, you know, how far do you take it and that is driven by the Mayor and obviously the Director and leadership in the department, but ... MR. WHITMORE: I think that's something worth considering. I mean, we actually, we wrote that into our strategic plan and under the advance and share knowledge element of actually having, we ask all of our specialists to track and communicate trends as it relates to their programmatic area of focus so we consider it part of our work and there are other agencies that do that as well. Planning has to be very forward looking, often the planning horizon for their projects is 20-25 years, but we support that work in part in our research function. CHR. ADAMS: Okay. Alright. Well thank you so much for being here today and making the trip over. We really appreciate that and I imagine we will be back in touch. Thanks. b. Hawaii County Council --- Council Chair – Valerie T. Poindexter (Note: At this time, Council Chair Valerie T. Poindexter came forward to address the members of the Commission.) CHR ADAMS: I understand that we have our Council Chair here, Chair Poindexter. I would also point out that we did have, I know that we have Council Member David here, and then we did have Council Member Eoff here, but she may have grown tired of my talking. I don't know, so— MS. POINDEXTER: I am on the other end so I know I need to turn my mic on. Sony about that. Valerie Poindexter, Council Chair, Hawaii County Council. Thank you for having this opportunity for us to come before you and present. Really appreciate that. From discussions during our committee meetings and our council meetings, things have come up you know and possibly a thing for, some things for the Charter Commission to look at. One item was of council terms, you know the possibility of should we have staggered terms, should it be four year terms, you know, what should it be? A lot of that discussion was about the continuity, you know, you could have all new council members you know, coming on board at one time. I know at one year, I think it was when I first got on and J was our Page 11