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<br />BETHEA: Yeah, right as he was saying that I wrote down budget process, because that was something
<br />that I’m not sure we ever really felt we handled. There were some complications and time problems in
<br />there, weren’t there, you know, about does the Council have enough time and -? I can barely remember
<br />it, but those -, that was a problem area.
<br />L’ORANGE: I think you should be as open as possible with the public. One of the things that amazed
<br />me is that one organization, let’s leave it nameless, had very excellent written material. When the
<br />president got up, he put his foot in his mouth and shot down everything he had written. I mean, he gave
<br />us just strictly B.S. And so I think it’s very important to give people a chance to show that, I mean to -,
<br />and to be questioned, if you have to question them, you know. I was shocked. One of the best reading
<br />material I ever seen, and then the guy that presented it, wow. And I think -. Well, let’s just leave it there.
<br />But we had police protection in Puna. I don’t recall why, but there was some reason why we had the
<br />police protection in Puna.
<br />BETHEA: Because it was Puna.
<br />HERKES: Now, be careful.
<br />BETHEA: I don’t know. I don’t remember that.
<br />L’ORANGE: I do.
<br />SANTANGELO: I’d like to -. Wait? Okay.
<br />RAY: Is any -, we are perfectly prepared to start a little dialogue here, but is there anything -?
<br />L’ORANGE: Yeah, I -.
<br />RAY: You’d like to say as far as just sort of a presentation or -?
<br />L’ORANGE: I think one of the things that was most useful, and I don’t think it was in the rules, I think
<br />it was an agreement on the Commission, is that we decided once we had voted on a section, that section
<br />was put to bed. We did not revisit it. Because we could have got into complete chaos if, at the end of the
<br />whole thing, we revisited a controversial area.
<br />RAY: So, Pete, how did that work out, you know, timing-wise, you know? I’ve been trying to figure out
<br />how this will go. And we’ll, say we get, you know, a layer of departmental, you know, input and then
<br />we get a layer of, you know, public input or something, you know, comes up, you know, a little bit later
<br />in the game and whatever. Now -.
<br />L’ORANGE: Never push the decision. Bob was an excellent chairperson. If somebody wanted to defer
<br />and leave that item for a subsequent meeting, we just did that. We didn’t -, it might be on the agenda,
<br />but Bob was a very fair chairperson and anybody could say let’s divert or let’s talk about that some
<br />more.
<br />But once we had decided on a single member district, which I was very much in favor of, I deferred to
<br />Mr. Greenwell on the two-year term. He was a senior statesman, and I respected his opinion having been
<br />on the Council. I, personally, think the two-year term is too short, but I did defer to him on that.
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