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My name is Bob Kovach. <br /> I'm addressing what I judge to be the real problem here, not enough concern for <br /> and involvement of citizens. <br /> <br /> If you want to really appreciate the personal freedom and opportunities and <br /> personal representation that we have here in the United States of America, go live <br /> under other forms of government, as have Donna and I. Here we have the right to <br /> make choices regarding issues that affect us. <br /> But we don't quite yet have it together. The actions of our politicians are not to be <br /> as an athletic performance for us to clap or boo as spectators. That's why it is so <br /> important that the committee not act on any resolution or plan before it is taken <br /> face-to-face to the citizens of KA'U for questioning and input. <br /> For example, anyone who supports Punalu'u Black Sand Beach area as part of our <br /> very fine National Park System sees it from the outside, as just a place, and has <br /> not been there as one of us, on a Sunday, talking story, Kanikapila It would be <br /> very obvious that being part of the NPS would keep most of us out of the area <br /> altogether, catering mostly to paying visitors. If this is not so, then show me. <br /> Ka'u is not a place, it is people. Punalu'u Black Sand Beach is not a place to be <br /> admired, it is an experience, it is people, a melting pot of fisherman, students, <br /> children, campers, haoles, hawaiians, kama'aina, retirees, visitors, those with little <br /> or no money or lots of money a great leveler because none of those things <br /> really matter. Nowhere have Donna and I seen anything like it. What does matter is <br /> that they must be involved because it's their lives that are being affected by <br /> outside forces. <br /> Maybe if our concern was for peo Ike and their land we would each take our plan or <br /> resolution to Ka'u and listen. Maybe we would be a part of the melting pot and find <br /> what people think. Maybe we would both inform and involve. Maybe we would now <br /> not have plans/resolutions supported through stirring of emotions, exaggerations <br /> (obvious to the informed), and adversarial politics, a combination plan involving a <br /> group that has said it does not matter what the Ka'u people want. <br /> Let's have the order be the involvement of the people and THEN the request for <br /> funds or not. I don't know what is best for Ka'u, but Ka'u does. At the bottom of <br /> your letterhead stationery: <br /> "Serving the Interests of the People of Our Island". <br /> For the above reasons and those brought up by others today I respectfully ask <br /> that you vote no on resolution 169-07 and, in the future, require that those whom <br /> you serve be informed, involved, and listened to before funds are requested or <br /> resolutions passed. <br /> Sincerely, <br /> Bob Kovach ~ 3 /Si <br /> Ref. To: <br /> Rs£ Dare .1UN <br /> <br />