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MR. SITKO: Do you mind if I jump in here? <br /> <br />MR. BALSIS: Go ahead, Mr. Sitko. And then I think we can go on to our finalizing. <br /> <br />MR. SITKO: Basically, one of the things that—it was brought up when you said, when <br />does a neighborhood become significant, and how many parcels. Yes, there is a <br />statistical answer to that, okay. It would have to be at least over 15. Below that, it’s a <br />meaningless number. It can’t be any smaller than that. The other thing I would like to <br />point out is that is why we don’t allow the individual appraiser to touch his property. <br />That’s the data that’s put into the model. That’s how the differences in valuation occur <br />between one house or another. It’s the individual information on that parcel. And to the <br />point of having somebody continuously misvalue property in his area, we annually have <br />to—and we do run it, on a actual appraisal level—a sales ratio report, which would <br />compare the information that they’ve input. Okay, so if somebody’s fudging with a 10 <br />by 20 instead of a 20 by 20, sooner or later this comes out, when actually compared to <br />actual market sales. In other words, the ratio isn’t going to be very accurate or very <br />good. So there are mass appraisal built-in controls on this. That’s all I wanted to say. <br /> <br />MR. BALSIS: Okay. Mr. Henricks? Mr. Adams? <br /> <br />MR. ADAMS: And I appreciate all that. And I think that—which is a nice way of starting <br />to say but—these are after-the-fact, at least it seems to me. And as that—I understand <br />that you’re in the position of trying to make sure that you have the ability to monitor, <br />but I don’t see that as what I vote on. I see us as voting on what the Code says. And the <br />after-the-fact doesn’t meet the level of the Code. So we come back, I think, to those <br />three elements. And the more I hear, the more I’m concerned that all three are actually <br />there. <br /> <br />MR. BALSIS: Okay. At this point I want to make a note that we’ve dismissed Petition -05, <br />and so do we have a motion with regards to Petition -06? <br /> <br />MR. HISASHIMA: Can I make a comment? <br /> <br />MR. BALSIS: Yes. <br /> <br />MR. HISASHIMA: I’m stuck between two. Why between two? Yes, the process is there. <br />However, we’ve heard from other people saying that this has been going on for 40- <br />something years. Has any of the system been updated to today to protect the assessors? <br />I don’t think so. You’ve got to protect your employees, that this does not happen. And <br />who I say that to is supervisors. So I’m stuck between the two. Yes, they may have <br />violated, but if they don’t do their job, what’s going to happen to them? I believe that <br />supervisors should protect their employees at all costs. If this is coming up, call them in <br />and talk to them. This might be a violation. What can we do about it? It’s not <br />administration against employees. We’re together. This is one island. The island’s too <br />damn small. What if somebody buys a nice $3 million home in Kona? Now what <br />26 <br /> <br />