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Page 12 <br />1 MR. MASUDA: Yeah. <br />2 CHR. ONO: I knew what I was talking about. <br />3 UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: You just came back to <br />4 Hawaii. <br />5 MR. MASUDA: Yeah. I was a prosecutor for about <br />6 fourteen years or so. And I've been corporation counsel for <br />7 about, yeah, about fifteen, sixteen years. <br />8 MR. HARANO: Okay. <br />9 MR. MASUDA: So as far as the question of, well, <br />10 what you folks do have an effect on whether people stay or <br />11 not, actually, yeah, it will. What you guys did at the last <br />12 meeting, and you folks gave a positive message. When I <br />13 talked of hope last time, you folks achieved that. You do <br />14 have hope. Look how many people you have testify now. <br />15 Because now you have hope. <br />16 With the hope, though, comes responsibility to <br />17 follow through. So that's there. <br />18 MR. DOW: Is there any way of taking <br />19 favoritism, some of the favoritism decisions out of raises <br />20 for deputies so that if we give adequate pay to the <br />21 prosecutor or the corporation counsel, we have some idea that <br />22 deputies will also receive proper raises? <br />23 MR. MASUDA: What you bringing up for the newer <br />24 council, Commission people, is that by ordinance we are paid <br />25 ninety percent. The maximum you can pay is ninety percent; <br />ISLAND COURT REPORTING & TRANSCRIPTION SERVICES <br />(808) 933-9800 <br />