MIN CHARTER 2019-02-08 (2018-2020)

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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -8 February 8, 2019 Nope. We are discussing the protocol and this is coming from my position as the Chair, to set this thing up, but of course as the Commission takes a look at that time and says "you know that is not enough", we want to provide the opportunity for a maximum time because obviously not everybody has to speak for the maximum amount of time but the guess is that many will. And so, the question is, is that a... is there a consensus that you would like to see a little bit more time allotted. Commissioner Rice. MS. RICE: I kind of like the, I thought it was six before today, six minutes if they had more than one item they were going to comment on. CHR. ADAMS: So last... MS. RICE: Maybe we could compromise between seven and five with six. If the, go to... I think if they are only going to comment on one item, it can be less, but if they are going to comment on more than one then we ought to give them just a little bit more leeway, would be my suggestion. CHR. ADAMS: The, so as a comment on that, it is not our intention to have people come in and necessarily... they will identify what they are going to be talking about but unlike the statements here, we are not designing the time period for each of the Charter Amendments right? They all have the opportunity to talk about one or all or a specific area of the Charter that we haven't even provided a proposal for right. MS. RICE: Oh, okay. CHR. ADAMS: And so, really this allotment of time is so that they can cover all of the stuff that they would need to cover within that period of time. MS. RICE: Okay. I got it. CHR. ADAMS: So, we have a couple of different periods of time, I guess we can move to six. I am okay with that, how does everybody kind of feel about that? I am not getting... I am getting one shake and I am getting one nod, and everybody else is... okay, that is fine. A minute is a minute. We will make that a maximum, allotted maximum of six minutes and we will go with that. Okay. Any other comments on the rest of this draconian... ? Okay, so that's Communication, this is the plan, obviously these protocols will be something that will be worked up. If there is, as you think about it, my assumption not yet having talked to the staff about this, is that this would be something that would be provided perhaps during notice of the times and then of course this would be available at the site, but the idea would be that this would be made available to the public anyway. And so, if there is something that you feel strongly about having thought about it, then Page 24