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GREENWELL: One of the biggest criticisms of the <br /> department by the Council and by the Board of Supervisors <br /> prior to the Council , was that all they' re doing down there <br /> is coming out with that information out of different <br /> magazines and putting it together. And that seemed to both <br /> parties just an absolute waste of time. I can see if there <br /> was an interest in some special sugar industry and you were <br /> asked to come up with a report on it . Then that makes <br /> sense. But I don' t think we ask that very often. . . or <br /> anything like that . <br /> MAUNAKEA: And frankly there is not the staff <br /> capability in the department to do it for everything. . . <br /> GREENWELL: Right. <br /> MAUNAKEA: . . . that comes along unless a specific <br /> project is requested. <br /> GREENWELL: Originally, everybody had (inaudible) . All <br /> they' re doing down there is cutting and snipping things out <br /> of the newspapers and putting them together . It seemed like <br /> an awfully expensive job to have someone down there who was <br /> just doing that with (inaudible) . I know this from way back <br /> when we first started . Excuse me (inaudible) . <br /> MAUNAKEA: Excuse me. At one time I understand there <br /> were plenty staff, if you will , associated with Research & <br /> Development. They were (inaudible) staff and so they were <br /> perhaps . . .perhaps this is the time that you were. . . <br /> GREENWELL: No. (Inaudible. ) <br /> MAUNAKEA: . . . talking about? Okay. <br /> GREENWELL: That was good, because it teaches some <br /> people how (inaudible) . <br /> JUVIK: Just to follow up on that research responsi- <br /> bility within your department , for a number of years the <br /> department did put out a Big Island data book. Now whether <br /> this was just simply cutting and pasting data. . . <br /> GREENWELL: Yeah. <br /> JUVIK: . . .which some people argued. On the other hand <br /> if it . . . if it were extended. . . represented the organization <br /> ( inaudible) commission could be used. Obviously, <br /> (inaudible) . <br /> But there are a large number of areas for example, <br /> there ' s been complaints about the federal census , that the <br /> data from the federal census is now much more difficult to <br /> access because of the cost cutting into the federal level . . . <br /> 284 <br />