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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Murashige, Laura <br /> <br /> From: Charles Fleming [kahuna00@hawaiiantel.net] <br /> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 4:26 PM <br /> To: cohmayor@co.hawaii.hi.us; Holschuh, Fred; Ikeda, Donald; Arakaki, James; Higa, Stacy; <br /> Safarik, Gary; Jacobson, Bob; Hoffmann, Pete; Pilago, K. Angel; Isbell, Virginia; <br /> counciltestimony@co.hawaii.hi.us <br /> Subject: Open space and natural resource ordinance <br /> Mayor Kim and Council Members, <br /> I don't usually favor any predetermined limitations on budgetary <br /> discretion. I consider the County budget a management tool and would <br /> normally oppose any attempt to limit the County's discretion in <br /> budgetary decisions. However in the case of the setting aside of a <br /> specific percent of the budget for the purchase of important historic <br /> or specific open spaces, I would urge the submission of a ballot item c <br /> to the voters to allow them to decide whether such an ordinance is <br /> necessary. c. ; The reason is simple. Those places, which are unique to the essesence <br /> of these islands, are fast being destroyed in the name of commerce or <br /> restricted to the use of the wealthy few as opposed to the general <br /> citizenry. s <br /> Not only does this process result in the despoiling of sacred lands <br /> and irreplaceable natural resources, it goes against all that is <br /> Hawaiian in tradition, e.g. the protection of the aina and the <br /> husbanding of it for future generations. <br /> Once these places are gone, they are gone forever. <br /> I therefore respectfully request that the Council vote to place the <br /> question on the November ballot. <br /> Mahalo, <br /> Chuck Fleming <br /> 75-310 W. Kakalina Pl. <br /> Kailua-Kona, HI 96740 <br /> Tel, Number 326-4708 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Comm. No. 9(Dc.1rilr <br /> Ref. Tolresew <br /> Ref. Date IIII 1 Q 9nnA <br />