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

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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -5 November 9, 2018 BUSINESS: business, Unfinished Business. CHR. ADAMS: Item No. one, is Communication No. 3, Formation of ad hoc committees. Any desires or comments? Seeing none. Move on to Item No. two, Communication No. 14, we have if I recall, and please correct me parliamentarian, the CA -2 that was considered as new business, last meeting was postponed to this meeting. Is there some action that needs to take place for us to take this up? MR. HENRICKS: No. There's a motion on the floor currently to approve this on initial approval. CHR. ADAMS: Okay. The motion is on the floor and it has a good second as well. MR. HENRICKS: Yes. Correct. CHR. ADAMS: Okay. So just a reminder, this particular motion is for the Proposal to amend 3-7 to provide that the County Council hold an equal number of its regular meetings in East and West Hawai`i within each calendar year. This replaces the language where currently it is a quarterly requirement to have it in West Hawai`i, I believe. We are open for discussion. I know that we had a robust discussion last meeting and I think part of the reason if I can say so that we postponed it is because there was the potential for some amendments but we needed potentially some detail to that, so do we have any..., yes, Commissioner Rice. MS. RICE: I prefer the amendment proposal as it is written. CHR. ADAMS: Commissioner Zelko. MS. ZELKO-SCHLUETER: I agree with Commissioner Rice. I also prefer the way it is currently being proposed. MS. TODD: Chair. CHR. ADAMS: Commissioner Todd. MS. TODD: I concur with the proposed language because I believe that it provides flexibility by stating East Hawai`i and West Hawai`i rather than specifying North Kona or South Kona, it allows the Council to move meetings to Waimea or North Kohala or Ka`U if needed if there are items that are of significant interest to people in that area and also gives Page 28