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<br />Page 32 <br />1 <br />In that case, I rest. <br />2 <br />CHR. TULANG: I do have a question. <br />3 <br />Going back to the departments and the <br /> <br />4 <br />classifications, it's nothing that you reported on, but I was <br />5 <br />at a conference on Maui about a year or two ago, and the <br />6 <br />mayor brought up a question. And I just found it interesting <br />7 <br />because he pointed out, looking primarily at women's rights <br />8 <br />and advancement, and one of the things he mentioned was <br />9 <br />looking at the classification of clerks. You know, say the <br />10 <br />Clerk I or II, et cetera, versus labor. <br />11 <br />And this is over time, when we started with labor, <br />12 <br />it was very physical labor. But as time goes on, things have <br />13 <br />been mechanized. You can ride the lawnmower. You can <br />14 <br />program different things to get the job done. And then <br />15 <br />there's been advancement in pay for those positions. But the <br />16 <br />clerk position went from the IBM typewriter to the computer <br />17 <br />and having to know all the software and so forth of their <br />18 <br />classification -- has not addressed the idea of technology <br />19 <br />improvement. <br />20 <br />Is there merit in that thought? Or the other thing <br />21 <br />that came back to him was don't touch it. It's a bag of <br />22 <br />worms. <br />23 <br />MR. BRILHANTE: This almost seems like a loaded <br />24 <br />question being that I'm a man, and it's coming from a woman, <br />25 <br />a well-respected woman. I'm just being facetious. <br /> <br />ISLAND COURT REPORTING & TRANSCRIPTION SERVICES <br />(808) 933-9800 <br /> <br />