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OMANAKA : Can we start with the process of advertising and let them respond to the committee? And the committee can explain to them what we ' re up against in terms of hours worked, things like that? I don 't think we need an attorney immediately ; we can go to Corp . Counsel for help for now in, you know, the kind of work that we ' re doing, so even if, you know, the attorney don' t come on board for the next two or three meetings, it won' t hurt us. BETHEA : What should you say on the salary thing then? JUVIK : I just said , fee negotiable . BETHEA : Fine. Does that meet with everybody ' s approval? It would go out exactly this wording , fee negotiable. JUVIK : A couple corrections (inaudible) typographical errors. One other point that we should agree on , I just put in a Friday , February l7th. . .figuring it ' d take a few days to get it in, and it would give about two weeks to respond. I don' t know if that should be longer or shorter. . . BETHEA : It ' s pretty short . JUVIK : Yeh. L' ORANGE : How would you advertise? You mailed out to law offices or, I mean, other than the newspaper? There are other ways to. . . JUVIK : I think we should put an ad in the West. . .in the Tribune Herald and the West Hawaii newspapers and , I could say, perhaps we could mail this advertisement to every attorney listed in the yellow pages , but. . . BETHEA : You could have. . .the bar association may have a list of attorneys. I think they do , that you could simply mail it to ' em. JUVIK: You don ' t have to (inaudible) the bar association. GROUP : (Inaudible. ) BETHEA : Can 't you anymore? GIANNINI : It ' s not mandatory. It ' s you can. . .you can not be a member of the Hawaii State Bar Association or the Hawaii Island or the West Hawaii but still be a member of the bar. BETHEA: I thought they locked it up. Well. . . GIANNINI : You know, I 'm not a member (inaudible) . BETHEA: Well, newspaper ads are expensive , as you well 68