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Making doing the right thing difficult such as disposing trash at the transfer station and recycling.Need to made easy as possible for people to adopt as a normal routine. Finding funds to support and maintain facilities. Doing the right thing within budget constraints. Current admin is creating lots of new positions and hire staff that have no supervisors or guidance that these new employees admit they have nothing to do or don't know what to do! I believe our biggest challenge is funding which affects staffing and especially in Recycling, services that the public wants,demands - and to some extent,rightly so. By not instituting an actual user fee for residents, i.e. Pay As You Throw for rubbish disposal, we are continuing to subsidize excessive generation of rubbish-no incentive to reduce,reuse, recycle. Also -and the entire country struggles with this is the lack bodies to fill the positions. The inefficiencies we face(e.g. procurement process)are inherent in many of the government processes that are a necessary part of the checks and balances required. They are complex and burdensome and I believe sometimes this can appear to the public as drastic inefficiencies - which is not untrue. I don't think it can be avoided.It does seem though that it could be beneficial for an expert government processes to analyze how our systems and make suggestions for County wide improvements. There is such a strong ethos of, "Well,that's how we've always done it...." and that benefits no one when it comes to inefficiency. On a more specific note, and perhaps our biggest obstacle for the Recycling(Waste Diversion) Section, about the Solid Waste Division of my department, is the lack of conveyance to ALL the solid waste workers that Waste Diversion, Recycling,Waste Reduction IS part of Solid Waste management, and not just an annoyance created by the Recycling Section.This lack of communication creates ongoing friction in our division. We, the Recycling Section,more or less do not feel supported by the Division,just another extra thing they have to "help" us with. Waste Diversion- sustainable materials management- is an inherent component of Solid Waste Management. Insufficient funding. insufficient staffing/high turnover. poor communication and decision making. Direction, funding, staffing Personnel. Workers do not feel respected or listened to, which leads to frustration and a breakdown in morale. Department office personnel and field workers do not intermingle. I have never even met the department leaders since they came on board. Limited Budget. Necessary repairs on both rolling stock and capital assets have been deferred the piper" (equipment poor due to budget reductions in the past. It is now time to "pay p p failures, conditions). Management: Management lacks an understanding of many processes which help to make a government entity work and be successful. 49 2022 Cost of Government Commission—County of Hawai'i -Final Report