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y Hawaii County Council July 2, 1997 I struggle with this and I wish my colleagues and the audience would understand this. But sometimes we just cannot put our personal views over something that's more important. When these young people come in here and the people that have come in here overwhelming supporting this program, I don't want to put a shadow--but in me, pulling back on something that could be judged as good or political or whatever, I would ask this Council to deliberate--you know what I mean--to think hard and let's vote together on this. Thank you very much. So I will not introduce any of the amendments to these three resolutions that prohibit aerial spraying, but I would ask the Police to live up to the word of--they really don't want to do that. Thank you. CHR. ARAKAKI: Thank you, Mr. Santangelo. I did turn Mr. Chung's light off and Mr. Chung, if you wanted to say something, you can have the floor, but I turned your light off. MR. CHUNG: i think one of my concerns was addressed inasmuch as Mr. Santangelo will not be surfacing his amendment relating to herbicidal spraying. However, I want to applaud his efforts in trying to address the concerns of his constituents in that respect. I seriously believe that particularly in his district, aerial spraying is a serious point of contention. Those persons who aren't--who don't look at it from a standpoint of legalization of marijuana or what--but they're just looking at it from a public safety standpoint. i really applaud his efforts in trying to get something going, but it looks like from a legal standpoint, we really don't have the authority to this, and I don't know what's going to happen with this other proviso, which was offered by Ms. Leithead-Todd, which also is a very well-intentioned thing and it seems to address some of the concerns of this Council with respect to a mandatory program review of the provisions of the County Charter. 11