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Hawai `i County Charter Commission -8 February 8, 2019 please get in touch with the staff so that we can take a look at that okay? Great. Thank you. Communication No. 15, is having to do with the articles of the Charter. Any comments on Communication No. 15? As you know we typically have this in each of our agendas. Okay. Moving on to Unfinished Business UNFINISHED The Chair directed the Commission to proceed to the next order of BUSINESS: business, Unfinished Business. CHR. ADAMS: Item No. 1 is Communication No. 3, Formation of Ad Hoc Committees, anyone wishing to form an ad hoc committee? Seeing none, moving on to Communication No. 2, If I may take a brief, I have a brief question for Shannon. Have we received a note back yet? MS. MAGNUSON: No. CHR. ADAMS: Okay. So, the reason I hesitate here is I should, we know that... what we know is that Commissioner Leithead-Todd has several items that are listed that she has submitted for consideration in this agenda. She has indicated to Shannon that she hopes to be here by three o'clock. And so, I would take those out of order and we would move on with the rest of the agenda to be able to accomplish that. It was my intention that we might consider the amendment that is going to be associated with number two, but given that she is not here, we really can't do that. So, I just wanted to let the Commission know that that is where we kind of are at and so we will proceed forward. Alright, so Item No. 2, is Communication No. 21.55 the purpose of which is transmitting Charter Amendment 7, Draft 2 for first reading. Proposal to Amend Sections 10-15 and 10-16 by Repealing and Replacing Provisions for the Public Access, Open Space and Natural Resources Preservation Fund and Maintenance Fund, respectively, as submitted by Commissioner Hamano. And, underneath, that was postponed at our last regular meeting, January 25th. You will note that there is a motion on the floor made by Commissioner Hamano and seconded by Commissioner Adams to pass CA -7, Draft 2 on first reading. I would note that actually, there is actually an amendment. We stand right now with an amendment where we have, it is the amendment by Commissioner Todd and seconded by Commissioner Hopkins, which essentially without going through the entire amendment, added, changed the amount to two percent for the preservation fund, maintaining the .25 for the maintenance fund, along with some other items in there, but that essentially is the amendment. And so, that is, within that amendment at the moment in the, by the process of reconsideration at the last meeting. There has been a point of order that has been made by Commissioner Hamano and that point of order is asking if the amendment is in order since it Page 25