Charter Commission meeting canceled

LIHU‘E — The year’s first meeting of the county Charter Review Commission was canceled Monday after multiple commissioners called in sick, leaving the body without a quorum, according to a representative of the Office of Boards and Commissions.

Even with County Clerk Peter Nakamura expected to swear in recently confirmed appointees Charles Patrick Stack and Jan TenBruggencate, just three of six members were available Monday. Four — of a possible seven seats — are required to be in attendance to convene a quorum.

The meeting will likely not be rescheduled, but instead items from its agenda will be moved to the February meeting. The agenda included the election of a chair and vice chair for 2010, and deliberation and decision-making on two recommendations put forward by former Commissioner Barbara Bennett in her November 2009 report on behalf of the Committee on County Governance.

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