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activities that they will need to get or keep a job. So with Mr. Ikeda's help, we'll be able <br />to get a facility that will help us facilitate that to happen. In here we have our goals and <br />all our different committees that we have on this initial Going Home things. You can <br />read them, it talks about all the different avenues that we've done - -right now that's being <br />done. We're in the Kulani facilities, we're at the Hale Nani facilities. Eventually we'll <br />have a program built in the Hale Nani facilities, but that's where our internal offenders <br />again, we still need to have some place to do it externally. Currently the Workforce <br />Development Division is allowing us rooms, but not enough space that we can do things <br />on a daily basis. Once a week is just not going to make it for a lot of these guys. We <br />need to give continuous things. <br />UM So that's what you have now, is just a once a week kind of meeting place? <br />ROWE: It's all over the place. It's like, different agencies, like Big Island Substance <br />Abuse, you have Goodwill Industries of Hawai `i, we have the Alu Like. So we're all <br />doing certain things, but all over the place, you know. The after -care things, like the <br />substance abuse things, is being done. AA meetings are doing at the beaches, and <br />wherever else that you find spaces. With this opportunity, we can kind of centralize our <br />location, and we can monitor them more frequently and assist them more, so that the <br />retention for their jobs or for any of their problems can be you know, we can help them <br />along the way, instead of a reduced recidivism -- instead of have them go back to prison, <br />we have to support them there. You guys have any questions oh, and the second one <br />that says employers, these are just some of the employers that we work with that have <br />that has helped us to hire or come in and do mock interviews and so forth and participate <br />in employer job fairs so that we can increase our employer base so that these guys have <br />the potential to be hired. So we have companies like Walmarts and Ross's and others <br />KTAs, and all these other big corporations helping us to reintegrate and help our <br />people Suisans and smaller companies like MK Construction and so forth. So, <br />anyway <br />L UM: Sounds like a big job and well needed. <br />ROWE: Well, that's why when Mr. Ikeda and Mr. Yoshimoto they bring their at least <br />a staff to come and listen to what we're talking about. Also, we have people that support <br />us like Clifton Tsuji, Dwight Takamine, .Terry Chang. They send representatives. The <br />Governor's Liaison's Office, they show up, and just recently we had the federal Pretrial <br />and Probation attend our meetings, and they want to know what we're doing and they <br />want to try and duplicate this in Oahu. So we're all over the place, but we need to try <br />to sorry, try to consolidate, and with his help, we're hoping that we'll be able to do that. <br />NICHOLSON: I have a question. <br />ROWE: Yes, ma'am. <br />NICHOLSON: Can you define what you mean by fix up the property? Are you building <br />buildings, or what is there now, and what are you going to be doing? <br />11 <br />