MIN CHARTER 2018-10-12 (2018-2020)

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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -4 October 12, 2018 MR. MASUDA: If you are just developing that list, I don't think that will fall under any prohibition of your suggesting that this item has any more merit then the item four or five or whatever. If that is purely the Communication, the big concern then becomes does it become a serial communication. Is that going to be then the vehicle for one Commissioner to send to the other Commissioner and say "hey, I highlighted the ones I voted for, the ones I want, what about you?" CHR. ADAMS: Oh, sure, although the way that we would work this, it would come from Shannon. So, I wouldn't send it personally. MR. MASUDA: So it would be like a modified minutes? CHR. ADAMS: It would be a product of the minutes. MS. SAQUING: So here, if I may, so when we are having these discussions if there is a proposal that I would like to bring to the table, I would simply say "Proposal" and it will be on the minutes blah, blah, blah, blah and then you can extract all of the proposals from the minutes and then that that's the foundation of us to have the discussion further. I am just thinking of ways to keep it simple for all of us with all of the ideas and thoughts that are flying around. CHR. ADAMS: Let me, if I may understand what you are saying. MS. SAQUING: Okay. Go ahead. CHR. ADAMS: We are going to get to you. Are you saying that we would have these conversations about these suggestions outside of them being proposals? MS. SAQUING: No. I am saying, I am suggesting that it would be a method to document all of the proposals as they come up so that they can be brought to the table to discuss at a later date, and I don't even know if that can be done. I am just trying to keep things organized. MR. MASUDA: Yeah, you're getting into murky waters. CHR. ADAMS: Those are judgments that you are asking somebody, typically staff to make. Each of us are going to take a look at these things to determine whether or not we think they are valuable or not and what you may think makes sense as a proposal, I may think is total hogwash. And of course is the idea is that all of that stuff would be gathered, but we are asking somebody in judgment to do that. MS. SAQUING: Okay. Thank you. MS. GALIMBA: It was a good idea but I could see how it is problematic. Page 35