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COUNTY OF KAUAI
Minutes of Meeting
SPECIAL MEETING SESSION
Approved as submitted 1/24/22.
Board/Commission: CHARTER REVIEW COMMISSION Meeting Date JANUARY 10, 2022
Location Teleconference Start of Meeting: 3:05 p.m. End of Meeting: 4:01 p.m.
Present Chair Reid Kawane, Vice Chair Lori Koga. Commissioners: Bronson Bautista, Virginia Kapali, Marissa Sandblom, Jan TenBruggencate.
Also: Hugo Cabrera, Deputy County Attorney. Boards & Commissions Office Staff: Administrator Ellen Ching, Administrative
Specialist Anela Segreti.
Excused
Absent
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Prior to call of order the Oath of Office for mayoral re-appointees, Reid Kawane
and Lori Koga serving second terms ending 12/31/24 was completed.
Call To Order Chair Reid Kawane, called the meeting to
order at 3:05 p.m.
Roll Call
Roll Call:
Commissioner Bautista-present & alone
Commissioner Kapali- present & alone
Commissioner Sandblom- present & alone
Commissioner TenBruggencate-here, not
alone (in dental waiting room) not able to
hear or participate
Vice Chair Koga- present & alone
Chair Kawane - present & alone
Quorum: 6 commissioners present
Agenda
Vice Chair Koga moved to approve the
agenda. Commissioner Kapali seconded.
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Voice Vote:
6 Ayes, 0 Nays
Motion carried 6:0
Minutes None
Public
Testimony
Bert Lyon online, but no testimony.
Communication None
Business CRC 2022-01 Election of Chair, Vice Chair for Calendar Year 2022.
Staff clarified that Chair Kawane cannot serve two consecutive years as Chair.
Commissioner Kapali nominated Reid
Kawane for Chair and Lori Koga for Vice
Chair. Commissioner TenBruggencate
seconded.
Commissioner Kapali withdrew
nominations of Reid Kawane for Chair and
Lori Koga for Vice Chair. Commissioner
TenBruggencate withdrew second.
Commissioner Kapali moved that Lori
Koga serve as Chair. Commissioner
Sandblom seconded.
Voice Vote:
6 Ayes, 0 Nays
Motion carried 6:0
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Chair Koga assumed Chair of the Commission at 3:20pm
Commissioner Kapali moved that Jan
TenBruggencate serve as Vice Chair.
Commissioner Sandblom seconded.
Voice Vote:
6 Ayes, 0 Nays
Motion carried 6:0
CRC 2022-02 Discussion and possible approval of the 2022 meeting calendar.
Administrator Ching asked the Commissioners to look at the June meeting at
the end of the month and that another meeting may be needed in May to get
ballot questions.
Commissioner Kawane moved to approve
the calendar. Commissioner
TenBruggencate seconded.
Voice Vote:
6 Ayes, 0 Nays
Motion carried 6:0
CRC 2020-17 Discussion and possible action on proposing a Charter amendment
relating to Council Districting.
Commissioner Sandblom asked for clarification on CRC 2022-03 after this item.
Deputy County Attorney explained that CRC 2022-03 needed to be on the agenda
for group to be formed.
Administrator Ching clarified that after the last meeting it was decided that there
needed to be a special meeting to discuss districting and possible need to form a
Permitted Interaction Group (PIG) and completing a survey. She went on that this
is a standing agenda item due to the on-going discussions and possibility of the
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need for open discussion.
Commissioner Bautista clarified if the discussion can be about if the Commission
wants to move to forming a Permitted Interaction Group (PIG).
Commissioners discussed their first votes related to their understanding of whether
to form a Permitted Interaction Group would be discussed in the next item.
Chair Koga asked Deputy County Attorney Cabrera if she could take this out of
order. And move on to next two agenda items and then return to this one.
Deputy County Attorney Cabrera affirmed.
Chair Koga noted that there is a motion and second and will return to this item.
Commissioner Kawane moved to defer
CRC 2020-17. Commissioner
TenBruggencate seconded.
Voice Vote:
6 Ayes, 0 Nays
Motion carried 6:0
CRC 2022-03 Discussion and possible action regarding establishing and defining
the scope of a Permitted Interaction Group (PIG). The purpose of the Permitted
Interaction Group (PIG) would be to recommend a Charter amendment relating to
Council Districting.
Commissioner TenBruggencate stated that the group would be able to discuss and
research what is needed to ease the process and come back with a recommendation
to the Commission.
Administrator Ching stated benefits of having a PIG and that the three members of
the PIG must be Charter Commissioners.
Deputy County Cabrera noted that it is not a quorum that meets to discuss and do
research and no voting is done and is not subject to open meeting laws. He added
that this meeting is to establish the scope of the PIG and assigning members if that
is direction they want to go. Another meeting would be noticed when the PIG has
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recommendations to present.
Commissioners clarified with staff the makeup of the PIG, staff’s role and process.
Chair Sandblom clarified with Deputy County Attorney Cabrera that the
subsequent agenda item about conducting a survey of voters could be something
the PIG could discuss or incorporate.
Deputy County Attorney Cabrera stated that it could be incorporated into the role
of the group to come up with the survey and either conduct it or investigate
someone conducting the survey and should be established in the scope.
Chair Sandblom stated she is happy to serve but voiced her concern that Vice
Chair TenBruggencate could be helpful on the PIG with his knowledge and
experience.
Commissioners discussed timelines of the PIG submitting a report.
Commissioners Sandblom, Kawane, and Bautista volunteered to be members of
the PIG.
Commissioner Sandblom moved to
establish a Permitted Interaction Group
(PIG). Commissioner Kawane seconded.
Ayes-6 Nays-0
Motion carried 6:0
Vice Chair TenBruggencate moved that the
PIG be established for the purpose of
creating a written report recommendation
on how and whether to create districting for
our County Council and that permitted
interaction group be authorized to access all
previous communications of districting
proposals to the Commission and able to
review additional recommendations, that it
be authorized to conduct any other kinds of
research required, including interacting with
subject matter experts and members of the
Kaua’i public. Commissioner Sandblom
seconded.
Ayes-6 Nays-0
Motion carried 6:0
CRC 2022-04 Discussion and possible action on conducting a survey of the voters
regarding Council Districting.
Administrator Ching reported that she checked with Office of Public Information,
and they are concerned that the Commission doing a survey that with Charter
Review when an amendment is put up, that is what the voters want. Putting an
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amendment on the ballot is the decisive factor. She clarified is that they are
against doing the survey, they suggest that a group could do a survey, but it must
be separate and apart from the Commission. She did get some suggestions of
questions and could approach groups suggested.
Commissioner TenBruggencate moved to
authorize staff to identify organizations to
conduct a survey that might be useful to the
Commission in consideration of districting.
Commissioner Sandblom seconded.
Ayes-6 Nays-0
Motion carried 6:0
Announcements Next Meeting: January 24, 2022
Chair asked whether an executive session is needed. Hearing none, the
Commission did not move to executive session.
Adjournment Hearing no objections Chair Koga
adjourned the meeting at 4:01pm
Submitted by: __________________________________ Reviewed and Approved by: _________________________________________
Anela Segreti, Administrative Specialist Lori Koga, Chair
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