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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 <br />for the County band. I agree with you, one County band with two subdivisions is probably where <br />we need to go, but I think the quality is extremely important, and I would encourage guidelines be <br />set as far as quality goes, and that that -, disbanding the band is probably not the best solution to <br />establishing quality. <br />TULANG: <br />HERKES: <br />I have taken that -, a mild step toward that by combining budgets. <br />Right. <br />TULANG: For this new fiscal year and having the bandmaster from -, or band director <br />from Hilo go out to work with the other West Hawaii Band in trying to upgrade the quality of <br />presentation. Now if I said 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 <br />money, and the West Hawaii Band only costs us $25,000. So if we look in the bigger scheme of <br />things with a department that has a $14 million budget, what's $25,000? But when we break it <br />down, and this year I think we went through that exercise very carefully, where we have almost <br />no maintenance and repair monies to keep up our buildings, $25,000 worth of lumber and nails <br />would mean a lot. That's all. <br />RAY: <br />IRVINE: <br />true? <br />Other questions? <br />I just wasn't aware that we had a band in Kona as well as in Hilo. Is that <br />TULANG: Historically, it used to be the Hamakua Band, and then it got moved over <br />to Kona, and in later years it became known as the West Hawaii Band. <br />IRVINE: I -, does anybody known how many counties in the country have bands or <br />whether maybe our high school students should just represent us on a musical level? It's kind of <br />16 <br />