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Hawaii County Council July 2, 1997 MR. WURDEMAN: Your decision is to vote it up or vote it down, right. MR. SANTANGELO: Okay, thank you very much. CHR. ARAKAKI: Okay, Mr. Chung. I know you wanted to ask Mr. Wurdeman--you had your light on and I turned it off. MR. CHUNG: I'm sorry, I was taken away for a minute and i think Mr. Santangelo may have addressed the issue of what kinds of proviso's we can place on this resolution because we also have another--I don't know if this was brought up while I was gone, but another well intentioned proviso offered by Ms. Leithead-Todd relating to the use of some of the grant monies for the purpose of a program review--and we voted in support of that. MR. SANTANGELO: Mr. Chairman, I don't mean to be rude, but I think I still have the floor and i wanted to complete my thought. Mr. Chairman--Mr. Chung? CHR. ARAKAKI: Oh. MR. SANTANGELO: Alright. Thank you, Mr. Wurdeman. Mr. Chairman, I thank you for your indulgence. A lot of staff time and a lot of time talking to colleagues about this amendment went into this, and out of respect for them, I wanted to bring up this because there's been a lot of conversation. I'm not going to propose a Draft 3. To propose the Draft 3, as I understand it, would rob the police of alternatives that i don't always understand. When I came in and when I ran for political office, I made it a point to say that I would oppose aerial spraying. I would like to do that. On the other hand, I didn't know what I know today. We learn and we investigate and we're educated in this political process. I really would like to see no aerial spraying. I don't see a need for it and I would like to see it not done. Hut that's my personal view, but as a legislator and as an individual that's responsible to and for this community, i will not propose this--more out of a lack--I don't want to politically grandstand and I want to take what I think is the moral high ground. 10