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

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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -5 November 9, 2018 CHR. ADAMS: Commissioner Todd. MS. TODD: I found the timetable that had been given to us and under that timetable it basically said that the Commission shall complete the process of proposing amendments to the Charter by December 31' of 2018. CHR. ADAMS: That was the—right, that was the initial stuff that we were provided when we were joining. I believe right? MS. TODD: Yeah and because we have to take it out to public hearing... CHR. ADAMS: Because the public hearing we figured would probably be a January public hearing. MS. TODD: Then after the public hearings then we can decide whether we want to amend our proposals and consider input, so in that sense, I am correct that if we want to propose amendments in order to have them for the public hearings, we need to get them in for the December meeting otherwise we don't have a set of proposals under our timelines to take out to public hearing. CHR. ADAMS: So given that we haven't yet decided when our public hearings are going to be, we did, I don't remember if you had departed yet at the last meeting, to be honest, when we were having this conversation, so we talked about having public hearings in the late March/early April period of time. That means that we would be able to accept amendments through first reading by the February meeting. The February meeting would be the first meeting, the first reading in March with a March/April public hearing time period. MS. TODD: Okay. Because I was... CHR. ADAMS: You're right in terms of the amount of time that we need prior to it. So for example if there is a decision that no that is too late, we need to do it in January, then you are absolutely right. December, first reading in January, but as we have talked about we were looking at a late March/early April time period that everybody else was available for. MS. TODD: Okay. CHR. ADAMS: Any other questions? Page 22