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then have to start getting with chairs and your legislators to let them know what’s going down and how it’s going down. The other thing too is it’s hard to track – what you gotta track too is – is when a bill dies. So, a lot of times they don’t tell you, hey, this bill is dead – so it’s a constant re-looking at the legislative website to kinda get what’s going down. What’s really helpful is if you know people in the community who are already doing this you reach out to them because they’ll have their eyes on critical bills – not all of the hundred bills will be critical – but there’ll be five or six that are critical – and those are the bills that are really needing to be paid attention to. So, I also do this for the Big Island Press Club – it’s a big – this is a big job. I mean there’s no two ways about it – it becomes a job. AA: Yeah, Rob, it does become a job. Last year was very strenuous and I think like only a select few of us was actually working on it so if we create this investigative committee hopefully, we get the max use of the committee and members from the public that can help us along and join us on this journey. NP: Ah, Nani here – a comment from the public… AA: Go ahead Nani… NP: Thank you. In times past with GMAC we had a legislative committee, and I would suggest that it wouldn’t have such descriptive restraints because who knows, I mean, they need to have flexibility and I think it should just be called that legislative 2023 committee. That’s my comment. AA: Thank you, Nani. AG: Austin Griffey, here, District 6. What kind of power is this legislation gonna have if all we can do is investigate? What is our investigations gonna lead to? What can we do? AA: From my experience, Austin, and Brian and Leomana can pretty much attest to it – is we advise, and we also work with the mayor’s office as well for the bills that we helped with. We got so – we asked for support from the mayor’s office – the mayor’s office has supported the two bills that we helped along with last year, so it’s like basically going through – like Rob said – like going through the legislative website watching these bills – contacting when it’s time to write testimony and stuff like that – you can actually write testimony as an individual but I think the Commission itself cannot write any testimonies – just you as an individual but you’ll be more knowledgeable of what’s happening throughout the process, right? AG: OK. Got you. So, we’ll be pretty much publicly telling people about these things, so they don’t go under the radar pretty much – so people know about what’s going on. 17