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L'ORANGE: I 'm comfortable with what ' s (inaudible) . I agree with you that maybe the name needs to be changed. CUSHNIE: I 'm comfortable with flexibility, but I 'm concerned that if the Charter is a mandate, there is a moral and legal obligation to fulfill all portions of it . And if we are picking and choosing of necessity because one portion can' t be fulfilled because we can' t chair something imposed by the County Penal Code, I think that needs to be house- keeping. I think we need to do something about that , in fairness to the department . Why burden them with gathering all grant-in-aid information when that is not a (inaudible) or a reality? I think this is (inaudible) a case of an ideal position now to create her own job description as she sees fit and still maintain the flexibility. I don' t think she has to specify we can focus on the film industry, tourism, solar energy but at least to eliminate those things that she neither foresees nor has seen in the past as being necessary. BETHEA: Let me ask (inaudible) . Looking back at the history, would most of the things they did fall under this economic development umbrella? L'ORANGE: No, not. . .not . . .not completely. I mean, you could say energy self-sufficiency is a big economic issue, long term. But the research that was done was in biomass and solar , in. . .a lot of stuff in the County led to the host of the National Energy Lab being built at Keahole. I mean, a lot initiated here didn' t necessarily all come from (inaudible) . And when. . . (inaudible) Ki Hahn was the consultant , that spent an awful lot of time with the County. You could say economic development, you know, way, way down the line, but no, no, it was strictly what are the alternatives for the County, and they researched all of the various alternatives. JUVIK: So then. . . I could just well . . . I would agree. I think that potentially who knows what kind of issues. . .we' re gonna need research, energy conservation for example. Young Ki Hahn is (inaudible) change (inaudible) high sodium and so on and so forth. There may be many issues which. . . there could be many environmental issues , the problem with wastewater disposal and so forth that may. . .they may be able to write grants and get some reseach money for, that wouldn' t be strictly, you know, going out and just marketing the island. Well there' s nothing wrong with that . But I 'm just saying there might be other issues. And I 'm not sure if. . . BETHEA: Maybe it ' s research and economic development. Or the research option is there and you need the flexibility to do. Is that what you' re suggesting? 294