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want to read my name in the paper later on for something we've done. We have done <br />nothing so far, and we would just like to have clearance from the Board of Ethics. <br />ROWE: Good morning, I'm Kenneth Rowe. I'm with the Workforce Development <br />Division Office here, the Department of Labor. I've been with them for a number of <br />years and just recently I moved over to the Public Safety Department. I'm also apart of <br />the Going Home Initiative, which was initiated with the Mayor's task force. So we have a <br />combination of agencies, non profits, private sectors, faith -based organizations. I do <br />have some literature can I share it with you guys, for you guys to read? (Mr. Rowe <br />handed around a brochure.) <br />L UM: Now this is the organization that wants to use the property? <br />IKEDA: Yes. That is correct. <br />ROWE: Correct. <br />CHAIR: The Workforce Development? <br />ROWE: Right. I'll give you guys sometime to just review it. <br />L UM: Thank you. <br />ROWE: I just want to add other things, so we can clear it up front. Besides my <br />employment with the Workforce Development Division Office, I also do a lot of different <br />things, and one of them is I'm also the campaign chair for Donald Ikeda. So we want to <br />make sure that we put everything above ground, so that we can talk a lot about these <br />things. A part of our organization's structure as you can tell, if you read our handouts, is <br />that we also have our nonprofit agency that was created, that is called Hawai `i Island <br />Workforce and Economic Development Ohana, which is our nonprofit organization that <br />will help our reintegration for our ex- offenders. Currently we're working on re- <br />integration of them while they're inside the institution. But at the same time, we need to <br />continue with their services on the outside. On our request to Mr. Councilman Ikeda, I <br />asked this, because we do have correctional institutions in his district. And I also talked <br />to Mr. Yoshimoto, because he has a correctional area in his district. They have attended <br />our Going Home meetings, and we've talked about all these little things that we need to <br />take care of. The major initiative that we would want with his help, if we're able to do <br />this, is we need we ask for donation items from businesses in the community, and they <br />donate items to us. And we need a place to store it. So we asked for assistance in doing <br />those. Another thing is, we also want to continue doing after -care things with our <br />offenders that are being released. That means things like continuing their sobriety, <br />substance abuse and whatever else kind of after -care they will need. We want to continue <br />to do workshops so that they can get job retention and get a job and be productive people <br />in our community. Of course, as you know, we don't have a place like that for them right <br />now. With this partnerships that we've created, we're able to do a lot of things <br />internally, but what we want to do is continue to do externally- -that means outside, <br />because not everybody going through the system. People get paroled out, or probationed <br />out, right out of the correctional facility, so they may not have all the job readiness <br />3 <br />