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DILL: Yeah, regardless of election year or not. <br />ASHIDA: You're basically opining that there's an absolute ban in the County of using <br />it. End of story. <br />MALANKA: And that's the concern that I have, that number one, it would be <br />by the Council members that way, and number two, that it is a ban, and <br />who are we to ban them? <br />CHAIR: Well, it's always been banned. No one's ever used it. <br />LUM: I don't think it was banned. It just wasn't done. <br />CHAIR: That's right and- - <br />LUM: - -It wasn't done. <br />CHAIR: Why wasn't it done? <br />MALANKA: Because nobody had the forethought, nobody —it went to the advertising <br />department of the- <br />LUM: - -It was probably cheaper not to run pictures- <br />MALANKA: - -Oh, no— <br />CHAIR: - -Mr. Yagong, what was your reaction when you found out that- <br />LUM: - -they put the picture. <br />YAGONG: I was surprised, because, you know, my first question was, did you do it, <br />Steve? That was my first question —did you do this, Steve? And that's when he said no, it <br />came from the Tribune - Herald advertising. <br />CHAIR: But you were concerned because? <br />YAGONG: No I just —I was surprised. <br />CHAIR: And you were concerned because? <br />YAGONG: I really thought it was —I wouldn't say -- <br />CHAIR: - -Say that you feel you might be entering into a gray area? <br />YAGONG: I certainly realized that this would be something that I have never done, and <br />yeah, you're right — except for ads that Mr. Ashida talked about, when people know that it <br />is paid public funds being utilized for informational purposes, and We <br />40 <br />