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<br />RAY: Mr. Ross, we’ve had no communication with the Mayor since last March -
<br />ROSS: Yes.
<br />RAY: On anything that we’ve discussed. None whatsoever, and I run into him frequently, and have had no discussion with
<br />him whatsoever.
<br />ROSS: Mr. Chairman, I’m not saying there is any foul thing going on, or what.
<br />RAY: Well, it’s not foul or otherwise. There’s nothing going on.
<br />ROSS: No, no, no. But don’t forget that the Mayor appointed all of you.
<br />RAY: I understand that, yes.
<br />SANTANGELO: But Henry, once he appoints us, there’s not another living thing he can do.
<br />ROSS: I’ll get to another item, which is way worse than other things. So, anyway, the Mayor’s Office should not be involved,
<br />in my opinion, not even administratively. And you should have had your own office, and you could have had your own office
<br />because you are allowed to get money allowances, and so on.
<br />RAY: We do, Mr. Ross.
<br />ROSS: You have your own office?
<br />RAY: Yes.
<br />ROSS: Where is it?
<br />RAY: Our Administrative Assistant’s home. We have an independent office there.
<br />ROSS: That’s in Puna. That’s not a government office.
<br />RAY: It’s in Hawaii County.
<br />ROSS: Pardon?
<br />RAY: It’s in Hawaii County. It functions as our office.
<br />ROSS: Well, I don’t agree that that is - I have nothing against the secretary, mind you, not at all, but I -
<br />RAY: Well, our office is not in the County Building. All we do is have a drop-off box here.
<br />ROSS: So, just for the record, I’m stating I don’t agree with that. That’s all. I have a problem. I could not get this document
<br />until one day before your Kamuela hearing. I went to the Mayor’s Office, Room 217, and there were three of these
<br />documents that’s on the table here, you know, your -
<br />RAY: Summary, right.
<br />ROSS: Whatever the underlined and bracketed stuff, and whatever, the actual language that you are so far proposing, which
<br />was to be a public document. And the secretary put three of those, without a name on it, in the basket in Room 217. So I took
<br />one because I had been with her on the phone - not that day, but other times where she said if I have distributions to make, or
<br />something, you can find them there. There was a girl there. I forget her name, one of the secretaries, who came immediately
<br />running up from the back, ripped it out of my hand. ‘I see we made a mistake. We shouldn’t have put this basket here.’ Now,
<br />mind you, there was a note on it that says Hawaii Redevelopment Agency, facing me, behind the counter. ‘No, that’s only for
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