MIN CHARTER 2018-12-14 (2018-2020)

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Hawaa`i County Charter Commission -6 December 14, 2018 the other one is here and I think that this is a major issue that needs to be looked at constantly and that it should be put within R&D so we have a staff who could help all the other departments to look at these issues. That is basically my opinion on that one. CHR. ADAMS: Thank you. Do you have any other items, any other discussion? MS. GALIMBA: Sure, I guess the, I understand the reluctance to have another commission however, and this is not meant to replace the work at R&D, but to help R&D and to be frank to use a cowgirl metaphor, to apply spurs to the efforts because it is such an important issue and also there is a great deal of interest in the public and I have been contacted by people who are very interested in a commission and being part of it, so, that is not saying that it wouldn't be difficult and time consuming to seat a commission, but I think there is interest from people who have expertise in climate change, so appetite for a commission. CHR. ADAMS: Okay thank you. Commissioner Todd. MS. TODD: I would say that if this proposal is going to go forward, then I make a recommendation that it have an amendment to house the commission in the Department of Research and Development and make them responsible for providing the staff and taking care of it so that you know, every time Charters have created cormnissions and there has always been a question of which department ends up with the duty of supplying staff and resources and so I think we need to be clear that if we are going to go forward with this proposal to have a Climate Change and Resiliency Commission, the appropriate place and the appropriate staff would be with the R&D department rather than the others, so just a recommendation that there should be some language. CHR. ADAMS: Okay, so, thank you. Commissioner Galimba. MS. GALIMBA: I am amendable to that amendment to the proposal. CHR. ADAMS: So we are at the place, we are in a motion, we have a motion. The motion is to pass this particular Charter Amendment, we also, if we do that we are doing it without any amendment currently that would talk to that. So you always have the option of making that amendment now. We would have to make the wording proper and we would want all that to be done. We have also had the conversation where we can table this particular Charter Amendment that has the advantage of then seeing all of that that you want to do, including the potential for including what Commissioner Todd was talking about in this as well and then bringing it back up on the 11`1, but that would require an amendment to table it. MS. GALIMBA: A motion to table it. CHR. ADAMS: Whatever I said, yes, a motion to table it. Page 39