MIN CHARTER 2018-11-09 (2018-2020)

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Hawaii County Charter Commission -5 November 9, 2018 CHR. ADAMS: July or August of 2019 and November of 2020? MS. RICE: Yeah, exactly. CHR. ADAMS: That's a good question and to be honest with you, frankly we haven't figured that out yet. Perhaps our Analyst is going to tell me something different. We know that there is, so this is Adams' view of the world for that period of time and that is all it is. Alright, we have, we know that by June of 2019 we have to provide a packet that looks like a packet to the County Council. The County Council has 30 days to look at it, like it, not like it, send it back. We have 30 days to see what they have said, accept what they have said, not accept what they have said, and then provide that forward. There then is a period, I am not sure what the exact date is, maybe our Analyst knows, where we actually have to have the ballot measures to the election officials, the County election officials and that is sometime in September. September of 2020. So, we have the opportunity between August of 2019 and September of 2020 to talk about these, I mean by that point the Commission has voted on it, we have this period of time where it will be an opportunity to explain what the ballot measures are about, all that kind of stuff is available for us to do, but the process of doing any additional work is not considered in either the HRS or our current Charter as I understand it. Our work is done within that period of time through August of 2019 and then we are a Commission until the day after elections in November of 2020. MS. RICE: Okay. So after we have pretty much done everything we can do by law, then do we continue to meet or do we... CHR. ADAMS: That will be up to the Commission. MS. RICE: Okay. But basically we are done. Is that correct? Our work is done. I mean August of 2019. CHR. ADAMS: August of 2019 is when we have to have what we are going to do for the election in 2020 done. MS. RICE: Yeah. Okay. MS. TODD: Mr. Chair. Page 21