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<br />Administration has to look, and some of the stuff is saying if they can't find somebody
<br />out of magical thin air, a Legislative body may find somebody. But, to my knowledge,
<br />and I'm not saying this specific Administration, I would say most Administrations, once
<br />they start, do you think they ever stop looking for people?
<br />TANAKA: I don't think so.
<br />BALOG: I don't think so either, so it leads me back to where do you get
<br />these people? And that kind of leads to my second question. You went through, I
<br />would say, a few turbulent years with heavy schedules, 2 a.m., 1, 12 midnight, and now
<br />you're two meetings a month, right? Do you know of many other business people, or
<br />just people who are employed by other people, who could go to the employer, or say to
<br />their own business, that, you know what, in your specific Commission, I'm going to give
<br />up two half days or one day a month, plus reading, and possibly special meetings?
<br />Because, if I remember correctly, you were one of the people who always looked for
<br />people to come on, so you had the seats there so they could learn, right? So, I just.
<br />don't see the people out there, myself, and that's kind of why we tried to stretch out the
<br />term a little so we could make sure that people were up to speed. I don't think you
<br />could honestly say that there's a hundred people waiting in line to serve on
<br />Commissions, unless I'm mistaken.
<br />TANAKA: That's true and 1 don't know what the list looks like. I don't know
<br />how many people are on the list but, yes, you're correct in that some of us have made
<br />recommendations. We've gone into the community. For myself, I am a Director with
<br />the Hawaii Island Contractors Association. I have given my spiel to the Board. People
<br />have come forward and filed papers, but how extensive that list is, I don't know.
<br />BALOG:
<br />TANAKA:
<br />So, that's what I'm saying. It's ongoing and -
<br />It's ongoing.
<br />BALOG: Myself, personally, when I was sitting on that Commission, I had
<br />personal knowledge of people who were told, we're going to send your name, and
<br />when they found out what that entailed, they said, ooh, wait a minute. That's just a little
<br />bit too much. And they came to meetings, like how you said, eh, we'll come, check it
<br />out. So I was one of the people who went for that 90 days partly because Board of
<br />Appeals, knowing they're short handed and going to be possibly crippled at the end of
<br />the year if they don't get help. And in your own Commission, if you don't get another
<br />appointee, and two of you go off, out of nine people, that leaves you with six. If
<br />someone doesn't show up, and someone has to recuse themself, how can your
<br />Commission operate?
<br />HERKES: Automatic approval. 164.
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