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To The Honorable County Council Chadman Stacey Higa and Council Members, ZOOS NOU 14 PM 1 u9 As a citizen of Hawaii, I feel you are all doing a fairly good job a etected officials for the County of Hawaii. Some bills are very good for the community and people of HL;Q~ttlt I Bally-0i"Slee with Bill No. 258, Draft 3 because of several reasons. 1) Pertainaing to gaff/slashers prohibited as we all know we recently had the Filipino culture festival and the sport of cockfighting is a big part of the Filipino culture. Gaffs/slashers were brought in with the Filipino immigrants that labored and make Hawaii today. When they arrived, they brought their cultures. With that cultures, came these implements and cockfighting. Some of these implements commonly known as gaff/slashers were being handed down from generation to generation and are like heirloms and kept for sentimental reasons. I feel that by implementing this type of Bill, this really undermine the rights of the citizens of Hawaii. 2) As far as the zonings are concerned, its not clearly stated pertaining to the Bill. 3) Special Officers (animal control contractor), who's going to foot the bill or where are their salaries coming from? The County doesn't have enough money to operate properly as it is. And if the salaries or monies are going to be appropriated for enforcement by the animal control contractors, I really disagree with the use of tax payers money for this purpose. 4) The Humane Society can't even control or cut down on the stray animal population as it is. (Back when there was only one dog catcher, without all this expensive devices and humane means of controling strays, did an excellent job of controling and keeping up with stray animal population island wide.) Now, I understand the population has grown and there are more strays running loose and laws have been passed, in the past, lease laws. I'm not sure if there is an animal shelter of the Humane Society in any other district other than Puna and Kona. With expensive modem cars, traps, equipment and more employees, why the lease law is not been enforced and can't keep up with the strays. Appropriate more funds for the operation of the Humane Socity and adding more responsibility will make matters even worse. Already the Humane Socity disposses of a lot of animals. They say humanly put down? Humanly or not, killing is killing. 5) Noises creaated by animals can be caused by stray from irresponsible owner of cats/dogs or even people talking or neighbors having domestic problems that complainers can't hear, but dogs and other animals respond (make noise) by these things. 6) If a stray cat/dog was to cause my dogs or animals to make a lot of noise all the times, does this Bill allow me to solve this problem; that the Humane Soc'rty can't enforce. I think not, because of an incident that happened to someone that I know. He was charged or almost charged because he was tryng to protect his own livestock. 7) 1 live in an area where lot of the owners have dogs and cats which causes my dogs and animals to bark and make noise at times and people talking loudly makes my dogs bark. This doesn't bother me because I want my dogs to let me and some of my neighbors to know if the barking is caused by an intruder or someone at my gate. 8) Lots of dog owners have dogs for hunting to put food on the table for thier family and as watchdog to protect thier property. This Bill would allow more crimes to be committed due to no watch dogs. They are our alarm system for us and for our neighbors. When we leave, we let our neighbors know and if our dogs bark excessively, they'll check it out for us. I can go on and on about this Bill, but wig and it here. Besides there is already a set of laws that was put in by the County Council, but its not being enforced. You should really look at that law instead of making new laws and enforce the present law in existence. Some things we do now, we regret later, so think on this. Preserve what "Aloha" we still have and not erode it anymore. But not passing or killing this type of bills, This Bill in particular, Sincerley yours , F eside t:;~ ii Lloyd H. Kinoshita/ Dale T. -~Kinoshita Q O' Comm. ~l O Ref. To: : ~ Ref. Date NOV 5 7 ns_