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Page 7 <br />1 I ask you to trust and ask any department of <br />2 three reviews of cut -- what you had to cut or could <br />3 cut, until it comes to well, are you going to cut <br />4 personnel? So, I think almost all contracts were cut. <br />5 Bill is up there. He was directly involved in the <br />6 instructions from the mayor's office. <br />7 I had the unpleasant -- for those of you -- <br />8 not unpleasant, unpleasant, but it's not very <br />9 comfortable sometimes to notify all unions, because all <br />10 four unions was going under their collective bargaining <br />11 at that time. Another negative of timing. Anyway, I <br />12 think all four unions were notified that the County of <br />13 Hawaii administration would not support one single <br />14 percent raise. I made a crack one time in the guys -- <br />15 to the police union, because it was a conference call, <br />16 and I said, "I retract no raise. I'm asking for minus <br />17 2 percent," just to impact them very serious that I <br />18 would not support any raise of the four unions, the <br />19 police, fire, HGEA, and UPW. And it was done very <br />20 early of this year. That's how serious I knew it was. <br />21 And so, it came to the vote element. It's <br />22 well-known by them, because I told them personally we <br />23 will not reverse that support. And, as you know, the <br />24 collective bargaining system is simple: Each county <br />25 has one vote; the mayor -- governor has four votes, so <br />ISLAND COURT REPORTING & TRANSCRIPTION SERVICES <br />(808) 933-9800 <br />