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Hawai` i County Charter Commission -4 October 12, 2018 us need to do a suggestion form for our Charter Commission or would perhaps some of these less substantive things be just taken into sort of a housekeeping measure that we were talking about last time? I mean it is sort of a grey area there you know. CHR. ADAMS: I am going to let Mr. Henricks talk here in a second. I would if it's me, I will default to considering them substantive and then come up with a proposal. But there are those that, but it is going to be the Commission's decision, right, I mean we are all going to take a look at these proposals and we are going to vote them aye or naye right?, and so, the idea though that we are also developing this housekeeping... MS. GALIMBA: List. CHR. ADAMS: List or you know, I'll turn that over to our analyst. MR. HENRICKS: Thank you. I guess the first thing would be, I wouldn't say there is really an in between. Either it matters or it doesn't and I think that you had said that well. And I know that you had started. You have a proposal on today's agenda that uses the word "rephrases" and I think that when you use that word, the pure intent is not to change any meaning whatsoever but to clarify wording so that it reads better and also perhaps there's no legal arguments as to what it means. And those things that would fall into that category could be included into the proposal by way of an amendment or they could be handled separately. It would be best probably if we have something that we are going to call a "housekeeping amendment" that is all in one proposal because again, it wouldn't make sense to have several proposals that—their intent is to rephrase, clarify, but not change the meaning at all. I think the example you gave of taking out ex - officio members is meaningful right?, so, and I know that we have staff that's working with the Chair to try to find areas of the Charter that would meet that criteria of being purely to clarify but not change meaning whatsoever, so and I agree that it will be up to you folks to discuss that and then get guidance as to — from legal counsel as well, whether or not that to be the case. MS. GALIMBA: Okay. MR. HENRICKS: But again, it would be best to have one proposal if we want to call it a "housekeeping" proposal, but when you are thinking about that, again, not changing meaning and not changing how things work or how they are constituted, membership or anything of that nature. Even some of the suggestions from the Planning Commission to take out transitional provisions, you consider that housekeeping because there are historical, but I wouldn't. I think that goes beyond what we would call a housekeeping amendment. Page 30