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<br /> May 17, 2005, at 01:4736 PM Janice Palma-Glennie (808) 324-0093 <br /> Janice Palma-G~ennie <br /> P.O. Box 4849 <br /> Kailua-Kona, Hawaii 9679'5 <br /> TeI#:808-324-009j <br /> Attention: Hawai i County Council members <br /> Re: Bill 78 - <br /> Please put in the County record. Mahalo. <br /> May 18, 2005 <br /> Aloha, Council members: <br /> lJ <br /> I ask that you support Bill 78 in its entirety. This bill asks for= <br /> i <br /> a crucial 2$ funding that will give this county an unprecedented, <br /> and extremely overdue, opportunity to help meaningfully protect <br /> the natural beauty and cultural integrity of this island. <br /> I'd like to address a few points regarding this fund: <br /> 2) Funding for land procurement isn't lust an expenditure: it is <br /> an env m n ;n h o~n y's future. Without protection of <br /> critical lands, Hawai i will shortly be nothing more than Paradise <br /> Lost. Open space and protection of special places is as critical <br /> to social balance and security as is an expanded police force. <br /> 2) Because of political considerations. it does not seem feasible_ <br /> to have a meaningful land procurement fund that requires yearly <br /> council agproval (as is quite obvious by the time it has taken to <br /> pass any legislation aimed at providing Comity funding for land <br /> procurement). <br /> 3) In response to the mayor's statements that land can be <br /> protected in the same way as was the Keakealaniwahine complex: <br /> Without the work and commitment of unpaid community advocates like <br /> Maile David, this important area would not, most Likely, have <br /> been preserved. Ms. David spent many hours of her life working <br /> toward that goal, which, in the end, brought it to the County and <br /> Comm. No. ~ <br /> Ref. Tc~'r aUM ~ <br /> Reif. Date <br /> <br />