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garbage on the beach, on Monday, after a heavy Sunday. That ' s a very heavily used beach. He says well , I don ' t know who' s responsible for getting me a rake. I said well , if I got you a rake, would you do it?' He said I don ' t know who' s responsible for providing me with a wheelbarrow. And on it goes. And he is a dedicated guy who would love to do it but somebody upstairs doesn ' t give a damn. So, I think you have got to define responsibility. The next thing you have got to do is have a review process . In- the years I have lived on this island, I have never heard an adequate citizens ' review of what happened last year. What have we accomplished? Where have we failed? What departments met their budget? Anybody over? Anybody under? How can you run a business like that? I submit that there has got to be review system and that, I think , can be built into your charter provisions. And redress. Well , I 've been in business some 40 years and one of the principles that I learned many years ago, in running a business , and I 'm sure it ' s no different than running a county government, is that you plan, then you act, then you re-evaluate or review as we just did, and then you replan. Nobody is going to learn to run this county perfectly in a year, or two, or ten. So if you don ' t provide a built-in system for re-evaluating and going back and saying this was wrong , that was wrong, let ' s change it, and motivate the people to do a better job, they are not going to do a better job. So they are going to ask for automatic wage increases and cola allowances instead of going out and doing a whale of a job where everybody is happy to give them a reward for a job well done. Somebody said, tonight, have you counted the cost? What was it, asatellite office in Kona, or something. Well , I ' ll bet you there are a lot of gentlemen in this room and some ladies, too, who have been responsible for running businesses that had -a:need crop up somewhere else. So what do you do? You' ve got so much sales , or so much income to pay the expenses . . .you figure out how to do it. In this county, nobody is trying to figure out how to do a better job with fewer people, or the same people. They just want to know how many more can we hire and how soon can we raise it? And I submit that is irresponsible government. Very irresponsible. And finally in the area of removal , certainly the ,gpestion of Initiative and Referendum speaks to correcting it. I think that definitely is a power that belongs to the people. The Sunset Law has been mentioned. Of course, the ballot box is the ultimate. But the ballot box won ' t work if . you haven ' t set standards and judged a man and found him wanting and gave him a chance to improve, still found him wanting , and you vote him out. If you hadn ' t done any of those things , the next fellow comes in and say well , it ' s my four-`years , let ' s see how we can milk this cow. -24-