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Charles Flaherty From: ASLTIBURON@aol.com Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 3:52 PM To: oneheart@aloha.net Subject: CNH Civic Center Citizens for Equitable and Responsible Government CERG Poll and Opinion: West Hawaii Civic Center Mayor Kim is proposing a $2,000,000 bond to fund construction of the first phase of a West Hawai'i Civic Center. Some believe that a Civic Center would result in more equitable and responsible County government for the citizens of West Hawai'i. Others believe that the funds should be spent on more basic needs in our community, such as more and better roads and access to County water. The mayor is currently proposing the Civic Center be located in Kealakehe on seven acres of "ceded lands" that the State has offeied to the County for $1 Pel year. JVllll: believe local Hawaiians would greatly benefit from a Civic Center where all can meet together and plan how to best help Kona to return to the peace and harmony that once existed here so long ago, so the Kealakehe location as good as any. Others believe that it is inappropriate for the State to be offering or selling anyone "ceded lands" with Governor Lingle and the Hawaii Congressional delegation lobbying for the Akaka bill and a possible sovereign Hawaiian nation. Still, Others beliCVC it w inappropriate to take "ccdcd ].ands" for a Civic Center at $1 per year when commercial rates are much higher and while Federal and State promises to thousands of Native Hawaiians for homesteads have gone unmet for decades. Please take the time to answer the following question(s) and provide your comments that yVlll vole can be added to this unique public debate. QUESTION #1: Go you support or oppose a West Hawai i Civic Center at this tirat9 les. Comments: There will always be reasons for putting it off i.e. other prier, t, t,S. QUESTION #2: 1f you Sll(JpVrt 4 VVeJI Hlwa1 1 Civic l.t:llt el, Ul/ you Le11C ve 1Vl.atlllg it on Ceded lands 1.J appropriate or inappropriate? Comments:l think that various Native Hawaiian groups and spokespeople should be the arbiters of that question. Though, of course, they will not all agree just as the rest of us don't agree. QUESTION #3: if you support a West Hawaii Civic Center, but believe locating it on ceded lands is inappropriate, what location or solution do you propose? I don't know. What are the functions that are required/desired for such a "Center"? Offices for elective as well as appointees and civil servants, work rooms, police staion, judicial center, county social services???? How big and how diverse? A gathering place and "function" center too? Lets do it right. Let's design the building complex/camel/elephant - or at least know what we really want it to do before we site it.