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anyway. She wanted to give $5,000, and I understand that the organization is a
<br />good one, and it is located in Laupahoehoe. That would be Councilmember
<br />Dominic Yagong's budget. She claims it was a good —that Aunty Lucille is a
<br />good person, does a lot of things for the community. She belongs to QLCC.
<br />Anyway, she said she would like to help my Hawaiian people. That was really
<br />good things to say. I went on and I did that. I was really —if you look at the
<br />exhibits I turned in, there was a chart from the Department of Liquor Control,
<br />Public Works, you will see how many programs we did fund, and Aunty Lucille's
<br />program is out of our district. That is a good thing. We wanted to help everyone.
<br />What wasn't good was no sooner she gets it, I thought it was out of line for us to
<br />ask for a donation for a community meeting that we put together. To me, it's a lot
<br />of skirting. Especially if it was for 100 people giving beef stew. I think it's a
<br />generous offer. But referring back to what we were told we cannot do, we are
<br />asking. We're giving donations to someone who's not in our district. Okay, we
<br />have to explain that to Mr. Yagong. I also had to explain that to LRB, which is our
<br />Legislative Reference Bureau. They don't just let us do outside work, outside of
<br />our district. Rodney Oshiro did ask me, and I skirted lying, and I said, well, she
<br />does help everyone according to what Emily says and that she belongs to QLCC,
<br />and left it at that. So I wasn't angry about giving. But to me, we are giving
<br />donations when we are too closely connected. That whole day did not sit right
<br />with me, and I continued to do my work. I am saying this because I have been
<br />accused of not doing my work when I do my work. I do what I am instructed, I
<br />take care of it in spite of the fact that I knew we were skirting somebody else's
<br />district. It is important that our district benefit by our discretionary funds. I'm
<br />sure Mr. Yagong would have loved to given to Malama Hawaii Nei also. But it
<br />wasn't about the organizations. It was about us asking for donations. We called
<br />them. I was pretty annoyed by that, because I didn't want another note from Mr.
<br />Ashida. As with the Boys Club, that was an awful testimony he gave for me.
<br />Why, it was my suggestion in this very room, that —tell him —he didn't get —Boys
<br />and Girls Club did not get County grants for several years. This was the first year.
<br />It was an exciting time for them. But the discretionary funds, the idea came from
<br />me, was in this very room. In fact, I was sitting opposite this table, and I said that
<br />he should really approach, because we only had $900,000 of County grant. I knew
<br />that we were in a budget. We had to choose, to pick and choose who gets it. Well,
<br />fortunate for a lot of programs this year, I think they agreed to increase it to
<br />$500,000 more, actually $600,000 more. So when I looked at the Boys and Girls
<br />Club, we gave discretionary funds of $20,000. No one else worked on that. I did.
<br />I worked on doing the resolution, getting it passed, watching it carefully so it does
<br />get money and funded, and it did get funded. And the County, they benefited by
<br />$285,000. I don't know why I couldn't be thanked for that, but then again I didn't
<br />ask for any donation. I think it was wrong. I think it's skirting what we do. We
<br />develop a community program, we develop inviting everyone. It is the same thing
<br />we are doing when we are campaigning. We spend a lot of time calling on doing
<br />community meetings. I thought we could attend at this point, and then we ask—
<br />Chair: —If I could interrupt. I would like to go back to Lucille Chung. I read in a
<br />statement that, I believe it was 25 tickets that were to be sold for the Laupahoehoe
<br />fundraiser. Do you know how many of those 25 tickets were sold?
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