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

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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -3 September 14, 2018 MS. GALIMBA: Oh, well I mean, perhaps if, perhaps we need another kind of law, something in between a resolution and an ordinance because I can see why perhaps you wouldn't want something that is really temporary to be an ordinance. You know if it is only going to last for one year, so perhaps there just needs to be a third kind of thing that you do and that's all. CHR. ADAMS: Commissioner Todd. MS. TODD: Well my specific concern is that there is the potential that you could have a budget that does not square with the real property tax rates. You could either have a situation in which the real property tax rates generate more income than is set in the budget that's approved or the opposite where you could end up with a budget and this has to do with the dynamics on the Council and how many votes and also language that if the Council can't get it together then the Mayors budget ends up you know being in effect. Where you could have a budget that has many more expenditures in it then are raised by the real property taxes. So then you go in to an unbalanced situation and then it just becomes up to the Mayor what he cuts you know and then he just tells "oh I didn't fund this, I didn't fund this" you know and so I am just trying to envision a scenario in which you have a combative Council and a combative Mayor and then you end up with a situation in which you are failing or you end up leaving too much power in the hands of one body or the other. That's all. Thank you. MS. POINDEXTER: Thanks. CHR. ADAMS: Thanks Commissioner Todd and Commissioner Galimba. Seeing no other comments, Chair Poindexter, thanks again for being here and sharing with us some of your discussion on the Charter. MS. POINDEXTER: Thank you, and thank you for the opportunity. Aloha. CHR. ADAMS: Thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you. c. Office of Aging — County Executive on Aging; C. Kimo Alameda, Ph.D. (Note: At this time, Office of Aging County Executive on Aging; C. Kimo Alameda, Ph.D. came forward to address the members of the Commission. Mr. Alameda provided a handout to the Commission. See Charter Communication No 4.1) CHR. ADAMS: Welcome and please introduce yourself and we look forward to your presentation. Page 18