problems that they're having one of the things that's happening is that there's a number of folks there that is the tourism has gone up yet the tour tourism industry has gone down so what does that mean it means that the in waikiki the the  visitors bureau and the convention center which was built fifteen years ago they're down in their number of conventions that they've had and so with with that that means if the what the convention center is not getting enough enough activity and enough event then what's happening there is that we're going to be losing some of the we're going to be losing some of our the revenues that they would normally get from the tourism although the tourism and flights have been if it's increased quite a bit the whole way why an airline says right now currently looking for additional jobs they're going to be looking to employ five hundred more new employees and so what does that all mean it means that what he is trying to struggle with tourism and trying to maintain that if they can keep that going in on the rise that would be great but in the meantime other other avenues of income has dropped there's more and more people coming into the hallway and buying up land there's other resources of economic development and they need to do it soon would be with energy so with that i'm going to turn it back over to bill now they are as he brings up an discusses what they're doing with some of that energy and as far as what they're going to be doing over in that regarding the air conditioning that's going on tomorrow turned over to two  it looks like bill we have some technical difficulties that we're not able to have bill on the line but anyways what i wanted to share was we have a gentleman that we had interviewed a while back and i'd love to have him share a concept of this concept is the leading with gambling gambling has been a big hot issue in in the islands of hawaii and lots of folks there are saying that it's not we have a long it's blit the united with the hawaii  march saying they didn't have it they're concerned about a lot of different things the other fifty percent that we should have it well some of the facts are that many of the folks are actually coming over to the mainland they're flying over here to las vegas there's pretty close to fifty seventy five percent of the hawaiians come to the mainland spending their money there so with that i'd like to be able to introduce  enforcement and i was a parole officer for the state of washington worked up in everett i have a bachelor's degree in criminology from sherman and university i'm a graduate of coakley school class name being sixty six but  since then i found out that the native indians was having casinos so i went there to go play to be a dealer just like everybody else when i heard they were going to make twenty five to thirty dollars an hour that's going to really really got me going well i got out there to apply and they come to find out it was for natives only the morning session then when i went back in the afternoon because that was an opening session i went in there and apply and i guess some of the people in there recognized me because i'm a law enforcement background so he said want to become a gaming commissioner or a tribal gaming regulator and i said would they do and he said well we'll send you to school so i went to school the first graduating gaming academy here in the state of washington which i was the vice president or that class graduated and i worked for the p l o tribe of indians and watched them grow from nothing to fabulous today worked in the last fourteen years seven of those years as an executive director which means we regulate everything in the casino the rules regulations policies and procedures background checks on each individual companies that deal with the casinos food i'll call the hotel  machine entertainment you know we have to make sure that they get the best bids they're not under the table type stuff and when it cosimo is run right and regulated right it is s it's a lot of hard work it's like a corporation a well run operation yes now looking at some of the tribal members that i've actually seen from growing up to having a casino to being able to have monies to go get educated some come out with law degrees right now there is one individual that you know personally and is name is chad right he now runs the port of tacoma made an indians over three hundred million dollar project and this is a native american indian that  casino was in here he probably wouldn't have that chance and that's why i feel that for hawaii to have a chance a one time shot for not a casino but a gaming gaming meaning a career people look at gambling as being bad it's hard to learn how to deal it's great when you make good money it's great when you have health benefits it's great when the hawaiians if they had a casino could get a house build a house and i went on lanse because of gaming money it would be fantastic i would like to see the native hawaiian or hawaiian homelands have a bank so the hawaiians can go to this bank and get money to build a house right now they we they give us the land the new state will get qualified nobody wants to give us money because if we can't make the payment we don't have a job they can't get the land so we're out i've been sitting on the hawaiian olmstead list since one thousand six to seven still have not in myself a lot of other ones i am sixty there are hawaiians there in their eighty's that don't have a way and only once so where is the hold up here you know as far as why home and i'm hearing we have the funds but we don't have the funds again again the casino thought right educate the white people and what they can get from this would be self interest you know you're talking about gaming and casinos and anyone were happy about having them and there was a lot of resistance but once they started to see that it wasn't there there was of so many more benefits outweighed it outweighs  resistance to it and and you know when you think about it now there is over in washington there's over twenty nine and twenty nine communities have been impacted when we can see the the rise or look what just in the emerald queens area they bought the emerald downs they own i mean there's so many businesses they only have the amphitheater it was the book a sh school beautiful school and its children are getting a good education yes and when when elders senior the senior centers market being built we've just completed their senior senior senior building and they've been waiting for this for years right so the meal programs that they have it's the third is so many there are so many events that we've attended that's been th done they give up millions of dollars charitable they share their sympathy with the community also we just had four of our officers who were killed in the line of duty and nationwide they all poured in here for support i mean our thousands of police officers across the country emma queen along with the other other casinos but in mclean i know for a fact gave all their roots donated the these people that the lot it's all about and they can give it back to the communities with heart and compassion that's that's an awesome thing if they didn't if they were not a successful corporation could they have done their job no not at all you know and there are other things that need to be addressed you know we got alcohol we've got drugs we've got all this kind of stuff that people say is going to come well believe it or not is there it was there before it was there before it's there now but do our people have a choice of getting taken care of no little merican indians who have their gaming facilities they have their own facility to take care of their own people and that's all they need to do is be educated showing that again i refer to it as a career you know your product that hawaiians have a lot of you know right now there is there's a big issues on homelessness the more money more and it's because they keep helping themselves and there's many you write on it is there so that so there's a whole lot of things why is there we known that there's a from this going to food their feed their families when this is a job you know in like the federal federal jobs and you become a federal postal inspector you go anywhere in the united thing in gaming you learn how to deal in gaming you can go anywhere in the united states and believe it or not there are four hundred over four hundred senos in the united states and how many john says that  to notice that there is they provide and in casinos has provided seven hundred twelve thousand jobs with twenty seven billion dollars  yes that's big money they have paid and this just blew me away they've paid over ten point eight billion dollars and local state and federal taxes in two thousand and  thousand and eight billions billions in the pay their indian gaming pays one point three billion in taxes to federal state local governments this isn't just a small little something or rather so you know i was thinking about that in hawaii today they have to have a fertile friday for the school and the  federal workers which means that translates into one twenty five percent twenty percent of an income in a household that's working that that means there's those kids are not in school that means buildings are closed down for that time that means there's a lot of people idle because what other jobs going to do that means there's just so much and you know here's a state or and especially now out of a couple bill just passed exactly i mean they have their own they can now move towards a lot and i would like to see groups of hawaii from hawaii come here you know nor local groups here will shelter there you know cook or do their whatever we have to do to get them here but i also know that i spoke with the tribes different drives and they are willing to put them up and show them what's here what they got what they didn't have to help them and i tell you it's a big step you know that we had families opportunity to be here when our state representative carol came in beginning of january and she came here on an invitation by john from law to level up and he gave her a tour and we were privy to go and take a look at all of fifteen as a result of the monies that they had earned and what it has done in this community it's amazing the they've hatchery that has grown so now that they have their own fishing build a business that they can provide and fish to a lot more businesses they have school medical they've got a medical clinic now they also have i mean and i know this is just a representation of what all the other tribes are doing and that that's kind of the model they're going there and they have their own shopping center they have their own hotel they have their own administrative office now they have their own schools and they're feeding and helping that north and marysville area it has blossomed and grown and providing jobs it is the one at least i went to a couple of job fairs and guess what they were there saying please comment apply we  community is really suffering i mean it doesn't make sense it's you know not only casino jobs gaming jobs but our hawaiian crafts natives have their crafts their  their jackets their carvings and everything and they have their own store that they are you can sit at home do their carvings put it in the store and people actually buy it and i look at that our winds c do it right laws regulation the right people in there do the right training and it would profit us a once you know when initially  when i remember when the folks library white bear and a whole lot of other folks who were trying to get their own identity and having you know claiming their own indigenous rights and they fought hard and once they got it there was a lot of divisions among the different tribes and you know it's an interesting thing that when they start to look within them sounds and they looked at their own assets and they start looking at getting smart and working with one another they start realizing you know we need we need our fellow tribes we need to band together and the more they start to band together and and get rid of some of their differences and they start working collectively together it's a funny thing all of a sudden a lot of casinos are helping other casinos become successful now they're offering ideas of how they can educate their own people there are now talking about preserving their their language and and it's an interesting thing that from then to today we've had a chance to find out more about what the native american tribes are doing utilizing the profitability the gambling and for their people and i just wanted to share a couple more things and that's you know the birth of the indian casino and gaming actually started in december fourteenth nine hundred seventy nine by the seminal tribe in hollywood florida and today they have done such a wonderful job of managing themselves and managing their assets and managing their finances that every single one of  books living in the hollywood area and in that in that tribe received well over one thousand dollars a month now i don't know in hawaii if the gaming if gaming is going on and if they can get that going i do believe that the native american alliance and the people from the native american tribes would probably get over and come over to the islands of hawaii what a perfect place to be able to enjoy the tribes and the traffic the beautiful tropical sees and the beaches and the beauty of hawaii that perhaps it can also be come the very a very way for our how and folks to be able to be self governing and also self sustaining and you know if there's an influx of that kind of funding that can that can go into the economic purses of hawaii there's other things that they can pursue a couple of weeks ago we had talked about energy we talked about all of the different kinds of ways to have alternative and clean energy you know what is prime for that what he has it has it's got available to them the the water the oceans many much of the energy can go towards developing that the when that they've got a tremendous amount of wind and the the wind sources and the sun sources in the solar panels many of think many times when they're divided as a lot of folks are just you know they're not even the kind of worried about all of the the ills that can come from gambling and as joe had mentioned we've always had it but the indians have worked away to be able to resolve that they have developed their own rehab centers they have developed their own homeless shelters they have developed their own youth centers and medical clinics where they can provide help for their own people to what he needs to be able to take and take a look at what they're doing and gather themselves together and reassess all of their assets they have the makings of being getting themselves back out and becoming self governing and also self sustaining so you know when we talk about that i i get lost in all of the  what the gaming has done for the tribes here and there are over i mean more and more of the triumphs are continuing to add there is twenty twenty four states now in the united states that allows the full scale indian casinos and again i'm not for gambling so much as far as encouraging people to do that but millions of people that is part of recreation and if it is the recreation but the sports boards have a lot of gaming that they do with that the only thing is they're going by which of the games or which of the teams are going to win in this situation benefit themselves certainly it would increase their tourism it would increase a lot more of employing their own people i would love to see the day when entertainers and artists themselves are able to be climb out of their own economic deficits and be able to share exactly the same thing that our ancestors have so worked hard to do you know i think back what would it look like this was in one nine hundred seventy nine that the gaming was birthed in the united states we are now twenty twelve and when more and more of the native american people in themselves when more and thousands of children thousands of children are being ed of children are able to go and get a college degree now and those folks when they've when they've graduated are able to go back to their own land and to their own tribes and impact them and help them their own people to become better i don't see the downside of the of the gaming and you know hawaii needs to really take a look at that i would love to see the day when the why and folks can invest in their own energy and never have to worry about transporting and sending their garbage to the united states when they can use them in the islands of hawaii turning them into energy i would love to see the day when the hawaiians do not have to worry about having everything imported back into the