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WHEREAS, Hui litlalama i ke Ala `Ulili is a community-based 501(c)(3) charitable organization founded in 2015 whose mission is to reestablish the ecosystems that sustain the community through place-based educational initiatives and `aina-centered practices that cultivate abundance, regenerate responsibilities, and promote collective health and well-being; and WHEREAS, Chapter 2, Article 19, Section 2-114(c), of the Hawaii County Code 1983 (2016 Edition, as amended), provides in pertinent part that real property may be sold or leased through negotiation upon a finding by the Council that the public interest demands it, and also upon approval of the minimum conditions and selection criteria of the Council; and WHEREAS, Chapter 2, Article 19, Section 2-120(a)(2), of the Hawaii County Code 1983 (2016 Edition, as amended), provides in pertinent part that the Council may, by resolution approved by a majority of its members, direct the Director of Finance to negotiate the disposition of real property by leasing it to a nonprofit organization, at such rentals and on such terms and conditions as deemed proper; and WHEREAS, Chapter 2, Article 19, Section 2-120(b), of the Hawaii County Code 1983 (2016 Edition, as amended), provides such lease of real property to nonprofit organizations may be made without notice or appraisal as required in Chapter 2, Article 19; and WHEREAS,the Council finds that these lands are appropriate to be leased by negotiation for the purposes of`aina stewardship, Native Hawaiian farming and gathering practices, regenerative agroforestry, and diversified agro-ecological systems, which would fall within the goals and objectives of the Hamakua Community Development Plan while also benefiting the County, tenant(s), and the community; and WHEREAS, the Council does not wish for these lands to remain idle and become overgrown and susceptible to fire hazards; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII that pursuant to Chapter 2, Article 19, Sections 2-114(c) and 2-120(a)(2), of the Hawaii County Code 1983 (2016 Edition, as amended), the Council hereby finds that it is in the public's interest that all or a portion of approximately 1,000 acres of Hdmakua land as described herein shall be leased by negotiation. 2