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DATE: January 5, 2010 <br />PLACE: Hawai`i County Building <br />25 Aupuni Street <br />Hilo, Hawai`i 96720 <br />TIME: 6:11 P.M. <br />Council Chair and Members <br />Hawai`i County Council <br />Hilo, Hawaii 96720 <br />REPORT OF THE <br />COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS AND <br />INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS <br />Re: Comm. No. 639 /Reso. 281 -09 <br />Your Committee on Public Works and Intergovernmental Relations, to which was referred <br />Communication 639 and Resolution 281 -09, reports as follows: <br />Resolution 281 -09, transmitted via Communication No. 639 from Council Member Kelly Greenwell on <br />December 1, 2009, resolves marijuana should be decriminalized and not be treated as an illicit substance <br />and urges the Hawai`i State Legislature to initiate legislation to decriminalize the cultivation, possession <br />and use of marijuana. <br />Forty -eight (48) public testifiers appeared before your Committee, 23 spoke in support and 25 opposed. <br />Discussion by the Committee was swept by intense emotion ranging far from the question at hand. One <br />member threatened to resign from office, another member called forward lead Corporation Counsel <br />Lincoln Ashida to testify about public testimonies alleging historical Police Department brutalities, but <br />Mr. Ashida explained this was not the venue for such discussion. Public health and welfare and Home <br />Rule were cited as the core issues by the introducer. <br />Your Committee on Public Works and Intergovernmental Relations is not in accordance with the <br />purpose and intent of Resolution 281 -09, and forwards it to Council with a negative recommendation. <br />bps <br />Respectfully submitted, <br />COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS <br />AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL <br />RELATIONS <br />Q ES, CHA <br />PWIRC REP <br />ADOPTED: <br />AYES <br />NOES <br />A &E <br />EX <br />ENRIQUES <br />X <br />FORD <br />X <br />GREENWELL <br />X <br />HOFFMANN <br />X <br />IKEDA <br />X <br />NAEOLE <br />X <br />ONISHI <br />X <br />1'AGONG <br />X <br />VOSHIMOTO <br />X <br />DATE: January 5, 2010 <br />PLACE: Hawai`i County Building <br />25 Aupuni Street <br />Hilo, Hawai`i 96720 <br />TIME: 6:11 P.M. <br />Council Chair and Members <br />Hawai`i County Council <br />Hilo, Hawaii 96720 <br />REPORT OF THE <br />COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS AND <br />INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS <br />Re: Comm. No. 639 /Reso. 281 -09 <br />Your Committee on Public Works and Intergovernmental Relations, to which was referred <br />Communication 639 and Resolution 281 -09, reports as follows: <br />Resolution 281 -09, transmitted via Communication No. 639 from Council Member Kelly Greenwell on <br />December 1, 2009, resolves marijuana should be decriminalized and not be treated as an illicit substance <br />and urges the Hawai`i State Legislature to initiate legislation to decriminalize the cultivation, possession <br />and use of marijuana. <br />Forty -eight (48) public testifiers appeared before your Committee, 23 spoke in support and 25 opposed. <br />Discussion by the Committee was swept by intense emotion ranging far from the question at hand. One <br />member threatened to resign from office, another member called forward lead Corporation Counsel <br />Lincoln Ashida to testify about public testimonies alleging historical Police Department brutalities, but <br />Mr. Ashida explained this was not the venue for such discussion. Public health and welfare and Home <br />Rule were cited as the core issues by the introducer. <br />Your Committee on Public Works and Intergovernmental Relations is not in accordance with the <br />purpose and intent of Resolution 281 -09, and forwards it to Council with a negative recommendation. <br />bps <br />Respectfully submitted, <br />COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS <br />AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL <br />RELATIONS <br />Q ES, CHA <br />PWIRC REP <br />ADOPTED: <br />