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• <br /> ' • <br /> A . 5/23/79 Meeting <br /> •Water Authority, appropriated some money and worked with the department <br /> at that time Mr. Chun was the manager, ,worked with the department to purchase <br /> the system. The sale of the-system was made back in the early 50's I think, <br /> • I don't recall exactly; from that .the growth of the water system began. Money . <br /> was appropriated by the state legislature year, after year and at time, <br /> bonds were issued by the department for improvements to the system. So yes, <br /> that's a fact, the Department of Water Supply, then called the Board of Water <br /> Supply, did initiate the growth of the water system. <br /> . MANAGER: And .from then .on, we've been working with the state in. the development.of the <br /> . water systemsthroughout the island, especially Kona. <br /> TANAKA: Because you know I get different remarks when I .talk to people who worked for <br />• the state or who are legislators and senators saying that it was them because <br /> • they say they're the people that initiated the development of the 'water system. <br /> DEPUTY I 'm glad you asked. ' It was Mr. Chun and the Hawaii Water Authority that worked <br /> MANAGER: . <br /> together to purchase the Intersland water system.with Dudley Child. <br /> TANAKA: . And subsequent to that like the Kahaluu Shaft. well and everything like that <br /> • is the initiation. of the department, but not and. not the state people. <br /> MANAGE • <br /> You can't say that. <br /> MANAGER: <br /> • <br /> MANAGER:. ' We work together; we consult each other. <br /> DEPUTY It's a <br /> b <br /> effort ti <br /> coo erave etween. the state and count <br /> MANAGER: py government to improve <br /> the water system. <br /> MANAGER: . That's why lots of times., we ask for delegation of funds and we get them, and <br /> it• happened in Kona right through. <br /> TANAKA: Under the, George, under your figures, .the statistics, that you give relative <br /> to the growth from. 1949 to 1978,' I don't see a couple of figures like the cost <br /> of you know you have operating revenue but.you don't show the expenses and also <br /> • you show the number .of employees, you don't show 'the cost of the employees. • <br /> • Is there. a special reason for leaving those put? . • <br /> .TENGAN: This portion here was taken out of, our presentation that the department <br /> • initially made to. the Charter Review Commission so what I did I just took <br /> • it out and stuck it in. , This, the data presented here, indicates the growth <br /> in the department which is the subject of the particular section here, which <br /> 719- <br />