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Hawaii County Charter Commission -5 November 9, 2018 <br />flexibility on the East side if they want to move it around so long as there <br />is an even distribution between the two sides of the island. Thank you. <br />Commissioner Roehrig. <br />MR. ROEHRIG: Thank you. If that is written in to this proposal, that's <br />okay but just saying East and West you know Waimea where is that, I <br />don't know. But it doesn't say North Kohala, Ka'u, and I think it would <br />be, I think the intent is that it moves around the island right? I did get a <br />communication from a Council person and they think that having meetings <br />in Waimea, Hawl, and Ka`a is a good idea and it would be in the evening <br />where people can attend them, so I don't know if the language here is <br />going to cover that because you are not going to see all of that but I would <br />like to see the language where there is an effort made by the Council to go <br />everywhere. <br />CHR. ADAMS: Thank you. Commissioner Hamano. <br />MR. HAMANO: Chairman Adams, I have a question for the Corporation <br />Counsel. You know if we put this requirement as a Charter provision, <br />what is the consequence of violating this provision? Let's say they don't <br />have an equal number of meetings in East Hawaii and West Hawaii. <br />MR. YOSHIMOTO: My initial response would be that there is a penalty <br />provision in the Charter for violating the Charter so that would be the first <br />place that we would look to so, maybe that is something that the <br />Commission should discuss as well. Because you know that is a <br />reasonable question to ask right. <br />MR. HAMANO: Okay. Yeah. <br />MS. RICE: That's something I hadn't thought of. I mean there might <br />be... <br />CHR. ADAMS: Commissioner Rice. <br />MS. RICE: Hopefully not, but there could be a natural disaster which <br />would preclude having an equal number of meetings in a year through <br />nobody's fault. So that could be an issue. I wonder if we could have <br />some kind of an amendment to this which would cover circumstances <br />beyond the control of the Council. <br />MR. YOSHIMOTO: So I think that's a good idea because as I recall the <br />Council rules provides for circumstances in which if you cannot, I think <br />there is some language in there, I think Mr. Henricks can recall that <br />Page 29 <br />