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Page 21 <br />1 You'll go where we send you. <br />2 And so I got out, and here I am. God is some -- <br />3 works in mysterious ways. I'm older than Jack. I think if <br />4 you gave Jack a pay raise, I think we might be able to <br />5 persuade him to stay. I retired from the prosecutor's office <br />6 here in 2012 and became basically a supernumerary. Which <br />7 means if somebody quits, somebody gets fired, somebody goes <br />8 out on military duty, one of whom is here, I get called for <br />9 up to eighty-nine days. <br />10 Now, I'm getting called up for eighty-nine days <br />11 because Jack says he's going to retire on November 30. So if <br />12 you see me a lot, it means there's some transition going on <br />13 in the prosecutor's office. <br />14 The primary reason I'm here is to address a little <br />15 bit of history because you're Commission members, but you <br />16 weren't Commission members back in the '80s, you weren't <br />17 Commission members in the '90s. So a lot of these things <br />18 kind of repeat themselves. <br />19 In the late '80s, the situation was so dire in the <br />20 prosecutors office -- and Jack was there, so he can <br />21 confirm -- we had four openings at the time that we only had <br />22 about twenty attorneys at that time, I think. And the <br />23 situation was so dire because the salaries were so low that <br />24 to placate those of us who were thinking about leaving, <br />25 because we didn't want to pick up all these different case <br />ISLAND COURT REPORTING & TRANSCRIPTION SERVICES <br />(808) 933-9800 <br />