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HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSIONPage 13 of 41 <br />TULANG: One is cost, the other is -. <br />HERKES: Be careful. <br />TULANG: Quality of -. Maybe I shouldn’t say that. Maybe Marni should answer the question. I don’t <br />mean to offend anyone, but if I look at -, you know, if we’re going to represent the County of Hawaii <br />and we wanted to get out there to represent quality of music, there is one thing to bang two pot covers <br />together and make music, there is another thing to present music that we can be proud of that has history <br />and tradition, and the -, and presents a good program. I don’t think we have equal quality at the moment. <br />It doesn’t mean we don’t have a good time. It doesn’t mean we don’t -. <br />BESS: That’s good. <br />TULANG: Love what we’re doing. And I -, you know, I say that because I don’t mean to offend anyone <br />because I know the people who do what they do love doing what they do. <br />RAY: Are you finished, Mr. Bess? <br />BESS: Yes. <br />RAY: Okay. <br />HERKES: I agree entirely. <br />RAY: Marni. <br />HERKES: That quality is important, and I think that quality guidelines need to be set for the County <br />band. I agree with you, one County band with two subdivisions is probably where we need to go, but I <br />think the quality is extremely important, and I would encourage guidelines be set as far as quality goes, <br />and that that -, disbanding the band is probably not the best solution to establishing quality. <br />TULANG: I have taken that -, a mild step toward that by combining budgets. <br />HERKES: Right. <br />TULANG: For this new fiscal year and having the bandmaster from -, or band director from Hilo go out <br />to work with the other West Hawaii Band in trying to upgrade the quality of presentation. Now if I said <br />that out loud, I’d probably be blown away. <br />HERKES: The microphone broke at that time. <br />TULANG: But just in answer to your question, yes, and it has somewhat to do with money, and the <br />West Hawaii Band only costs us $25,000. So if we look in the bigger scheme of things with a <br />department that has a $14 million budget, what’s $25,000? But when we break it down, and this year I <br />think we went through that exercise very carefully, where we have almost no maintenance and repair <br />monies to keep up our buildings, $25,000 worth of lumber and nails would mean a lot. That’s all. <br />RAY: Other questions? <br />IRVINE: I just wasn’t aware that we had a band in Kona as well as in Hilo. Is that true? <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 5-19-99.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />