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<br />ROSS: I hear nothing. Is it working?
<br />SANTANGELO: It’s only being recorded, Henry, it’s not for the room amplification.
<br />ROSS: It does record, even though I -?
<br />SANTANGELO: Yeah.
<br />ROSS: It doesn’t scratch. Oh, yours doesn’t scratch either?
<br />HERKES: Mr. Ross, do you have a written copy of what you’re going to say?
<br />ROSS: No.
<br />HERKES: Okay.
<br />ROSS: No, I have some loose notes, okay. I didn’t have more time, otherwise I would have.
<br />My name is Henry Ross; I’m from Kohala. I think you should have at least one meeting in Kohala, too,
<br />you know, not have a hoard of people come down the mountain roads, you know, and so on. Of course, I
<br />realize that you would have to go down the mountain roads.
<br />HERKES: I was going to say. I agree.
<br />ROSS: Anyway, this is just by-the-by. I would like to tell you that I appreciate what you are going to do,
<br />believe me, and it won’t be very easy. I want to give, however, some constructive criticism, and please
<br />accept this as such, and I want to encourage you in your work. I want to tell you that I have run into
<br />some problems already, as public. I had to read in the paper, in "Dateline," that today there would be a
<br />meeting. They didn’t even give a time because you folks, in the last meeting, I read the minutes, in the
<br />last meeting there was a deliberation about the time, etcetera. Anyway, that is why this is called a special
<br />meeting.
<br />Now, a special meeting, according to the existing charter, and you better live with that as long as we
<br />don’t have a new one, according to the charter for a special meeting, you have to give notice in the
<br />newspapers, I don’t know how much ahead of time, 24 hours or minimum or something like that. You
<br />can also do it by radio or TV or something like that, but there is -, and Corp. Counsel has pointed that
<br />out in the previous meeting, I saw in the meeting, in the minutes, that Counsel 13-20-something, section,
<br />gives it exactly. Everything that you do in the meeting that does not follow these rules exactly is null and
<br />void, actions, that means. You can meet, you can talk, you can do everything, but any action would be
<br />null and void. And I don’t want to be in a -, get into a situation where somebody has to take you to court
<br />because they don’t like something, you know, and they take you to court, you get the long court
<br />procedure, and so on, and then they call you all on the mat and things like that. You want to prevent that.
<br />So, my question is, why am I the only public here? Because you didn’t properly announce it to the
<br />public, and I see in the minutes that you’re very much concerned, at least some of you, very much
<br />concerned with getting the public here, interesting them in your work and so on, and get feedback, and I
<br />agree with that, but the prime -, you have to be the prime movers if there is no other way. And if there is
<br />a shortage of money, with which I don’t agree, by the way, I’ll get back to that in a moment, then there
<br />is always the possibility of getting this on TV or something like that or giving a press conference; that
<br />costs nothing. If you give a press conference, you will get a number of people here. You get the radio
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