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MR. HENRICKS, MR. HISASHIMA, and MR. ADAMS (simultaneously): Aye. <br /> <br />MR. BALSIS: Aye. So motion [sic] 2013-05 has been dismissed. How about -06? <br /> <br />MR. HENRICKS: All right, Mr. Adams, will you comment upon my comments? I may be in <br />trouble, but the _____ concept, the dilution concept. Can you help me with that? <br /> <br />MR. ADAMS: When I was listening to our Vice Chair, the thing that comes up to me is, in <br />regards to the previous discussion—we’ve been focused on the appraisals and where the <br />appraisers are in this process. And as it was explained to us today, and I think probably <br />also last time, but explained to us today with pictures, which makes it easier, the <br />appraisers have a piece and then there are other members of the department that also <br />have a part to play in this mass appraisal process, which is what we’re seeing is <br />occurring—that’s I think where we’re at right now. The interesting thing for me is that <br />it’s perhaps the folks that have an overall view that actually have a—let me start that <br />again. The idea that we would suggest, a simple solution, is let’s just move the <br />appraisers, their appraising work, outside of where they live, works for them but it <br />doesn’t necessarily work for the folks that have an island-wide view, as I think Mr. Sitko <br />talked about last time. <br /> <br />MR. BALSIS: There’s one person who has that island-wide view. <br /> <br />MR. ADAMS: Well, but see, from my perspective, it doesn’t matter whether it’s one or <br />it’s ten, because the process has to be accurate. I don’t think we’re asking that <br />somebody has to be off the island to have the ability to—if our processes, if our rules are <br />such that it’s impossible to do the assessments living on the island, then I think we have <br />to kind of go back and take a look at that. I get stuck again on— <br /> <br />MR. BALSIS: I think one of the things that was discussed at the last meeting was the <br />concept that when you’re—and I believe Mr. Henricks made a comment about that— <br />when you’re looking at the island view, you’re looking at such a diluted, I’ll use that word <br />again, aspect that there is no real consequence of being directly related. But when <br />you’re looking at an individual neighborhood which has your specific property in it, <br />rather than a whole group of neighborhoods – <br /> <br />MR. ADAMS: I guess I would say that we understand that the individual at the top, if you <br />will, has an island-wide view, but in reality they’re looking at these individual <br />neighborhoods, too. I mean, they’re looking at and validating, as I understand it here, <br />what those individual neighborhood values are. So it’s a second or a third check on what <br />those appraisal values are, right? We know that they rarely have changed, but that is <br />what’s happening. I would be more inclined to be concerned about something that <br />hasn’t been brought up, which is the ability of higher level employees to actually have <br />some undue influence on the appraisers, which are the starting point for this, as a part of <br />this process. So that’s—there’s not been any evidence of that, either. I’m not saying <br />that that’s a problem, but if I’m looking at this in a hypothetical situation, as a process <br />19 <br /> <br />