MIN CHARTER 2018-09-14 (2018-2020)

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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -3 September 14, 2018 when your confirmation hearings, that people made their, some of their issues or concerns known. So thank you. CHR. ADAMS: Thank you very much Chair Poindexter. Any comments or questions anyone have? MS. POINDEXTER: Great. Thank you. CHR. ADAMS: I am sorry. MS. POINDEXTER: Oh you have, okay. CHR. ADAMS: I usually ask, yeah, you know how that works. In the Charter, just I guess more for, to get your opinion on it in Section 3-7, we noted that it talks about when the Council will meet. So it says "The county council will meet regularly at least twice in every month at such times and places as shall be established by rule of Council and meet at least quarterly in the judicial district of North Kona or South Kona." Clearly you are doing that more often. MS. POINDEXTER: Yes. We're rotating. CHR. ADAMS: Right and so I guess the question was is it, it seems that that has been bypassed by actual activity. Does it matter to you whether or not that gets kind of fixed a little bit? MS. POINDEXTER: Yeah. I would love to see that where the quarterly piece is taken out because I really believe that Kona should be equally served as Hilo is. CHR. ADAMS: Should it be, should anything be included in here? In other words should we say "at least monthly" or should we say...would you just identify... MS. POINDEXTER: I would say at least monthly because when you say quarterly it will give maybe a new Council to say "hey, let's not do meetings as often in Kona now. Let's you know..." I see J pulling up his mic so let's hear from Corp Counsel. J YOSHIMOTO: Just a suggestion. As I recall the Council Rules talked about an equal number of meetings and that allowed the Council to have some flexibility in times when we could not or would not want to meet monthly but make it up in other areas, so, the suggestion is maybe equal would be better because there would be times when.. MS. POINDEXTER: Yeah. Page 13