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<br />stations, you will get the newspapers, etcetera, etcetera. So don’t let it hang on the official notices that
<br />you must give according to the existing charter. And don’t -, please, don’t take them out of the charter
<br />because I think they’re useful. You cannot complain the public wasn’t interested or they are never
<br />interested, I heard in the previous meeting, Roland, I don’t know, you must have read the minutes, too.
<br />You weren’t there, but -.
<br />HERKES: He wasn’t there.
<br />ROSS: Somebody said something like well, they are not interested anyway. I think it was Mr. Bess.
<br />RAY: Several of us did. Go ahead.
<br />ROSS: Anyway, I’m not pointing fingers, mind you, that is not the idea. I didn’t write the name down. I
<br />could have, but why, you know? I’m trying to give constructive criticism, and please accept it as such.
<br />Okay. So there is a way to get public to your meetings. There is a way to have people write to you, you
<br />know, through a letter to the editor or whatever way, or a direct letter, or it doesn’t matter. I can give
<br />you PR instructions how you get public to your meetings, but I suppose, you know, that you, plenty of
<br />you, you’re a cross-section of the County’s business and so on here, you know how to do that. Some of
<br />you know, and then teach the others and so on. Okay.
<br />Now, Mr. Legaspi told me when I asked him if this was published in the newspaper because this is not
<br />publishing, this is what the newspaper gratuitously, you know, wrote in "Dateline" and then I can say, if
<br />I, you know, go along the lines of what I read in some of the minutes, why? The public doesn’t read
<br />"Dateline." Of course, that is not true. I don’t read it every time, but I was, by accident on Sunday, you
<br />know, I read the whole paper and I read the whole "Dateline." There has to be an official notice, legal
<br />notice, and there are plenty of people who read the legal notices apart from the sports page that they may
<br />be interested in. When Mr. Legaspi tells me there was no money for an ad for this meeting, let alone the
<br />previous one, you know, but let’s forget about that one, that’s over, but for this meeting there was no
<br />money, then I want to tell you that you are enabled by the State law and maybe in the charter itself, I
<br />don’t know, to demand money. You can say we need $25,000 for a secretary. We need $75,000 for one
<br />or two attorneys. You may get to that point, you know, I’m talking about yearly salary, and it looks like
<br />you’re going to be busy for a year. If you have to make expenses, you know, in whatever way or form,
<br />you can demand money. You can tell -, Rudy Legaspi is filling in right now, so it’s not personally
<br />directed at him, but you can tell your secretary or Mr. Legaspi or whoever later is appointed to deal with
<br />this, we are going to expend so much money.
<br />RAY: Henry, we do have funding, and we clarified that.
<br />ROSS: Okay.
<br />RAY: And addressed it earlier.
<br />ROSS: Okay. It’s important that you know that you pull the ropes. You are not dependent, you know, on
<br />what the County gives you, because then they screw you. I tell you, you’ll get plenty of static from the
<br />administration.
<br />RAY: Okay. Henry, I think we got that one in hand.
<br />ROSS: Pardon?
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