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MR. HENRICKS: Well, the point is, the fact that they did it to you once, it doesn’t go away, you see. Because it’s still there. They can do it to you again if you should continue. <br /> <br /> MR. DRUTAR: That’s why I would like to—precisely, that is absolutely correct. And that’s why I would like to be able to get an opinion from the Board, a panel of what I would consider experts—an oversight to say you can’t keep doing this. I have the right to disqualify myself. Please let me do my job. <br /> <br /> MR. HENRICKS: You see, the thing that I’m seeing here is that they’re saying if your employment is potentially—or not even potentially—actually a conflict of interest on the overall County. And you’re saying that I want to take each case on a separate level and disqualify on each case. So that’s the difference between you and them. <br /> <br /> MR. DRUTAR: Yes. I’m saying that when I sell a home in Hawi, that has nothing to do with the property value in South Point. <br /> <br /> MR. HENRICKS: So you’re saying that you want to take the narrower view and saying I want to be able to disqualify on a case-to-case basis. And they’re saying no, you’re disqualified from the whole thing. <br /> <br /> MR. DRUTAR: Yes, and I think that’s completely unfair. To represent a homeowner in their real estate transaction and make sure they get an inspection and make sure their home gets surveyed and they have a home inspector come out, and then it gets closed—which has nothing to do with assessing a property. I don’t see the correlation, if I am disqualifying myself and notifying them. But the County—as I understand it, to put it in practical terms, the County wants to make sure they’re not getting duped. They want to make sure I’m not going out there and saying hey John, I’m going to sell your property and afterwards I’m going to give you a break on your taxes. That’s the reality. They want to make sure there’s no corruption there. And I’m willing to definitely take a disclosure, disqualification point of view, to say I want the County to be protected. And I want to be protected, too. I don’t want people to think I’m doing something like that and have a cloud over my name. So it’s a protection for me as well. I do understand your point, but when you look at the actuality—when you bought your home, it didn’t have anything to do with property tax valuations in another part of the—it didn’t have anything to do with property tax valuations anywhere, because we do mass appraisals. We don’t just look at a narrow individual home. We look at Waikoloa Village. I look at 800 lots and I assign a land value to each of them, and then the houses are assessed by Stan Sitko. It would pretty hard to do it, and it would be pretty dumb. I know the difference between right and wrong. I wouldn’t do it. <br /> <br /> MR. HENRICKS: Okay, that’s all I have. <br /> <br /> MR. DRUTAR: I hope I answered your questions. <br /> <br /> MR. HISASHIMA: I have a question.