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services to cover all of the Big Island and this island is too <br /> big just to be travelling back and forth to provide service <br /> and too big for the people, .:Or the constituency, to drive all <br /> the way to the other side to find services. Somehow or other <br /> we have to find ways like the state has found ways to provide <br /> services right here. <br /> MR. ISHIDA: The difficulty that I have is <br /> we can make the provision in the charter saying that there <br /> show:Id be a satellite office within the city of West Hawaii . 4;- <br /> The problem is implementation. <br /> REV. BOSHARD: From the administrative stand- <br /> point? <br /> MR. ISHIDA: That ' s .right. <br /> REV. BOSHARD: I don ' t see any problem from the <br /> administrative standpoint simply because there would be a <br /> division of staff. <br /> MR. ISHIDA:, What do we say as far as the <br /> charter is concerned? Do e just say that a satellite office <br /> shall be provided? <br /> =REV. BOSHARD : Well , perhaps in a general sense,-;;that <br /> administrative services, public works and the like should be <br /> furnished equally to all ateas , even to the point of furnishing <br /> satellite offices. So that you can just serve the people where <br /> they are, rather than from across the mountains . <br /> MR. ISHIDA: I sympathize with that position. <br /> MR. CADINHA: Have you looked into the cost, <br /> Reverend, of doing this? <br /> REV. BOSHARD: I would really not see that kind of <br /> cost factor. Years ago we talked to Bruce McCall, about this. <br /> Of course, he was most suspect until we showed him facts and <br /> figures that we were paying quite a bit as over against--I think <br /> in 1973 ., 1 mentioned the figures twenty-nine and a quarter to <br /> twenty-nine and three quarters , and we were getting in capital <br /> improvements something like 12% and South Hilo 57%. Which already <br /> showed us an inequity of funding or to provide servicesfor people. <br /> This is a growing area and I 'm not saying that Hilo isn ' t growing. <br /> I ' m just saying that this is where the county should be spending <br /> most of its time if not being present here, experiencing the <br /> need and knowing that there are many more things operating here. <br /> If this is to be a part of the county, then it should be a living <br /> part rather than kind of a stepchild. <br /> MR. CADINHA: From a functional standpoint then <br /> you are_ saying that an annex, if you .will , should be functionally <br /> inclusive of everything that . is done in Hilo? We should have a <br /> planning departriient here and a water department here and all the <br /> other services? - - <br /> • <br /> -18- <br />