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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -4 October 12, 2018 MS. GALIMBA: Okay so basically one of us would need to kind of champion this—these proposals and put them, work with you to put them before you. MR. HENRICKS: Much as the Chair has put two proposals together today to kind of get the ball rolling, nothing will come before the Commission to be voted on unless somebody takes the initiative to fill out a proposal form, get it on the agenda for discussion, it's open for amendment, it's open for discussion, and open for voting. MS. GALIMBA: Okay. CHR. ADAMS: Okay. Commissioner Bergin? MR. BERGIN: So, I kind of am searching, I think as Sally is, more to do with procedure and the procession of many, many thoughts that are corning in, some from department heads and some from the public. At what point does this basket be sifted? Does it mean then, that if any of us see merit in one of them, that we would champion that? We would make the motion, and at what point do we begin to make those motions because you know, the process is ahnost two years long. CHR. ADAMS: It... if I may, Commissioner Bergin, it's not two years long and we are actually, I was going to bring this up as a part of another part of the agenda but the fact is and I know that Mr. Henricks is going to speak as well. I like the term championing because I think that that is a good use—the way that we sift, is we bring these proposals if we think that something that we have heard is worthy of discussion then we prepare the proposal, we will put it on the agenda and we will have the discussion as a Board. The problem is that it is not a two year process for us. It is a one year process for us right and we have to be done by June 26th, which actually for us means we have to be done by the second Friday of June because that is our meeting, in terms of providing it. And actually, we actually have to be done prior to that. We have to be done because we have these public hearings and we want to bring to the public hearings that we are going to have in the variety of jurisdictions, districts that are required by Charter, in you know our February and March timeline that we will talk about later. We have to have those proposals ready and that means first reading level. So that's two separate meetings that we have to have it. So all of a sudden, we are looking at June and then we are looking at February and March and then we are looking at November and that is a month away. So the sifting is going to happen here pretty quickly. MS. SAQUING: I have a question, Chair. Page 31