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-------- --~---------- - -~----------------.- - --------- . . I I I i I I I I I I i i i i I i I I I 1 COUNTY OF HAWAII STATE OF HAWAII RESOLUTION No.--16 97 APPROVING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SISTER-CITY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF HAWAII AND IKAHO-MACHI, JAPAN. WHEREAS, the Mayor and the Council of the County of Hawaii have endorsed a Sister-City Program to enhance friendship, goodwill and understanding amongst the global communities, especially with our neighbors in the Pacific Basin areas; and WHEREAS, since 1987, public officials and citizens from Ikaho-Machi, Japan have made visits to our islands annually every November, and for the past nine years have sent ten students to study at Waiakea Intermediate School upon an agreed homestay program; and WHEREAS, this unilateral and ambitious undertaking has given impetus to the establishment of a formal bond in the form of a sister-city association to pursue the other potentially, mutual benefits that may evolve from a meaningful sister-city relationship; and WHEREAS, this resolution will be augmented with written covenants between the mayors of both the County of Hawaii and Ikaho-Machi, to be supported additionally with a signed service agreement between the County of Hawaii and the Hawaii Island Japanese Community Association, NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL of the County of Hawaii that a Sister-City relationship be established between the County of Hawaii and Ikaho-Machi, Japan; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that upon approval of this resolution, that the aforementioned agreements will be duly signed by all of the proper officials at the next appropriate visitation,