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GREENWELL: I was thinking. In the old days , the committee. . . results of a committee between the community and the administration, and they would bring ideas in fact to the administration or to the park, where there would be one voice rather than five or six different groups . It was like the committee in Kona. It was at one time a number of different organizations that had come together. I was just wondering whether it might be a good idea to have an official committee kind of thing in each district? TANIMOTO: We certainly appreciate your comment. And that thought was mulled over. We' re not certain how . . .whether we should go to a district to form committees. But I think that is your intent , right? GREENWELL: Uh-huh. TANIMOTO: To take the six districts and say, we will have a recreational parks committee from each particular district , whether we have a special project or not. But to give input into the County, like the liaison between the administration and the people of the districts. GREENWELL: Right. TANIMOTO: That certainly should be taken into consideration further now that you bring it up. But we were kind of going on the basis of a facility there and taking away the official word of commission or recre. . . committees. Because sometimes in my mind, those things invokes thoughts on the person who gets elected to the committee or commission, like God or somebody diedand went to heaven and said , now you have the right to tell these guys what to do versus the adopted program, or it ' s a self-help. . . or a community self-help situation where they' re taking responsibility for needs that they see. It ' s a joint venture versus I 'm giving you authority now to tell so-and-so, or. . .sometimes we have problems with people championing a certain project. And if they' re on the committee, then. . . it ' s not necessarily the person who really has the need that ' s being voiced out. In different areas in Kona , I mean, I know I have a problem there with North and South Kailua town versus Kealakekua in particular projects . . . GREENWELL: That ' s gone on 75 years. TANIMOTO: Yeah, and we ' re not trying to take the position of saying, well until you guys know what you want to do, we won' t do anything. We more or less take that adopt-a-park situation or an adopt-a-facility 374