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BOB JACOBSON <br />Councilmember <br />Chair, Environmerrta! Management Committee <br />Vice-Chair, Finance Committee <br />HA WAI `I COUNTY COUNCIL <br />County of Hawai `i <br />333 Kilauea Avenue, Second Floor <br />Ben Franklin Building, Flilo, Hawaii 9672() <br />Mailing Address: 25 Aupuni Street, Suite 200 <br />Phone: (808)961-8263 <br />Fux: (808) 96l-8912 <br />E-Mail: bjacobsonnco.hawaii.hi.us <br />MEMORANDUM ~.-~ <br />.~ <br />`~ <br />August 29, 2008 ~ ~ : -~ <br />To: Pete Hoffmann, Chair co -.~ <br />Hawaii County Council <br />~ - <br />From: Bob Jacobson, Council Member ~--~ <br />District 6 `~ <br />:~ <br />_~ <br />Re: Transmitting the Hawaii State Association of Counties (HSAC) Legislative <br />Priorities Package for Hawaii County <br />Attached please find justification sheets and draft legislation as follows: <br />Relating to Branding and Labeling: Implementing labeling requirements for Hawaii-Grown <br />products, requiring at least 75% Kona coffee beans and listing countries of origin for <br />remaining beans on packages with labels claiming to be a Kona Coffee Blend, and informing <br />consumer purchases through labeling. <br />Relating to the Public Utilities Commission: Increasing renewable power component of <br />electricity utility company's portfolio standards and to decouplc compensation rates. <br />If these measures pass the Hawaii County Council they will be submitted to the Hawaii State <br />Association of Counties Executive Committee for consideration of inclusion in its 2009 Legislative <br />Priorities Package. <br />BJ/bl <br />Comm. No. i ~ 3 y <br />Ref. To: -~ ~'v" <br />Ref. Dote 8--- <br />District 6 ~ Upper Puna, Ka `tt, and Soutlr Kona <br />Hawaii County Is An Equal Opportunity Provider.9nd Employer <br />