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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -6 December 14, 2018 whether I should propose it to work with Jon and then bring it before you at the next meeting or if I should just do this verbally now? Is there a preference? CHR. ADAMS: Jon will tell me if I am incorrect about this, but if the idea is to change the wording of the proposal taking in new information, I believe we can, even though we have a motion on the floor, we can table this particular, is table the right term? It wouldn't be to postpone it again. MR. HENRICKS: We are probably going to recess is what I am hearing so table would work because that would put it over here until the 11th, but we may want to hear what the scope of Ms. Galimba's amendment would be before deciding whether or not it needed to be in writing. MS. GALIMBA: Okay, so basically I would like to keep the first part of it which is this the establishment of the Climate and Resiliency Commission and delete the second section which calls for greenhouse gas reporting and reduction requirement. Not that I don't think that I don't think that we should have greenhouse gas reductions but I think that perhaps putting it in the Charter at this point may be premature or not the right way to approach it so that is the essence of the amendment to my own proposal, I would like to make. CHR. ADAMS: Okay. Commissioner Todd. MS. TODD: I basically am kind of opposed to the creation of a new commission and instead would want to amend the section regarding R&D and add this to their duties and that is just because of my concerns in terms of manning commissions of the manpower and expense that it costs, and I think the work can be done by staff without having to do it with a commission. That is just kind of where I am corning from. But, I think that the duties definitely should be included in R&D's description. I think that is the appropriate place to have the duties and to insure that they take care of it and coordinate it with the other departments. So that is just you know, my two cents on this but I do want to say that irrespective of what some members of the public seem to think, what we do here is, we are not amending the Charter by our votes. All we are doing is making proposals which we may or may not personally support. We may be introducing them because somebody has mentioned it and we think hey, this should be discussed. Ultimately the people who decide whether this provision or any other provision gets approved and amended is the voters. We are not taking anything away from the voters by discussion and by proposals at this level. On top of that, it still has to go to the County Council for further discussion. Thank you. CHR. ADAMS: Commissioner Hopkins. MR. HOPKINS: I would like to agree with Commissioner Leithead-Todd. I think it would be better for this to be part of R&D as a continuous function within the County and not because, commissions are nice but again, it is volunteers and Page 38