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Page 25 <br />1 And for an attorney I, his hourly rate was $34 an hour. <br />2 Now, if you piled on the overtime that he's <br />3 required to do, it makes the salary closer to sixteen or <br />4 seventeen an hour. When the national minimum wage is <br />5 increasingly moving to fifteen. <br />6 So I'm not here to say that we should make these <br />7 people rich. That's not my purpose. I'm probably the only <br />8 Republican in the room. I'm not a Trumpster. I'm not a <br />9 Trumpster. But I'm probably the only Republican in the room, <br />10 so I am concerned about money. I'm also concerned about <br />11 retention. In 2014 -- <br />12 CHR. ONO: Rick, can I ask you to come to a <br />13 conclusion within the next three minutes. <br />14 MR. DAMERVILLE: Yes. In the next three minutes, I <br />15 will. <br />16 In 2014, the judgeship in Kona, district court <br />17 judgeship came open. The Judicial Qualifications Commission <br />18 recommended, Selection Commission, recommended six people to <br />19 the chief justice. Four of those names were Hawaii County <br />20 prosecutors. 2014. They didn't get selected. Those four <br />21 prosecutors three years later are no longer with the office, <br />22 not a one of them. <br />23 We lost fifty years of criminal experience because <br />24 we did not have a salary scale that when they could look at, <br />25 they could decide that this is a career. Personally, I don't <br />ISLAND COURT REPORTING & TRANSCRIPTION SERVICES <br />(808) 933-9800 <br />