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

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Hawaii County Charter Commission -3 September 14, 2018 all focused on enhancing and improving our community as a whole. And, I am going to ask Ron to speak to the last one because he's done a little bit of thinking about this. MR. WHITMORE: So we worked with staff this past year to do some strategic planning, and so we looked hard at the Charter and you get to the third item c and kind of scratch your head a little bit. We did some research. We actually had a staff member look back at some original, I forget which body it was at the time. I think it was back in the 60's when some of this language was being developed and .. MS. LEY: Board of Supervisors MR. WHITMORE: Yeah, Board of Supervisors probably at the time. So, the best we could tell is those are a function of at the time you may recall, was when you know at the federal level there were significant programs coming down through the war on poverty, great society, so the best we can tell, these are a function of that. The department at the time must have played a role in coordinating how those dollars came down and were leveraged at the local level and helping agencies across the County be strategic about how to best use those investments. But as you all know, those days have come and gone. The days of large federal non-competitive grant mechanisms are for the most part gone, limited at this point to some HUD (Department of Housing and Urban Development) dollars and so we just, we look at that and wonder whether its time has come and gone. So, I guess in terms of considerations for the Commission, we would suggest maybe that's something worth looking at in terns of whether it still has meaning and purpose in the twenty-first century for the County. Anything else you'd add? MS. LEY: No. I think that's it. There we go and there's our contact information. Thank you. CHR. ADAMS: Great. Thanks. Thank you very much for that presentation. Do any of the Commissioners have any questions or dialog for Research and Development? MS. RICE: Mr. Chair CHR. ADAMS: Commissioner Rice MS. RICE: Could you elaborate a little bit on C, the one that you say (inaudible) MR. WHITMORE: So it speaks specifically to, oh yeah, thanks—yeah, so coordinating informational regulatory knowledge of all federal and state grant -in- • Page 7