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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -9 March 8, 2019 <br />which is not on your agenda, but 27 is unnecessary. The County already has the <br />right to do eminent domain and we do that if there is a public safety issue that is <br />very commonly used in public safety issues. If we have to take a piece of land to <br />widen a road, to make sure that people aren't killing each other as they come <br />around a curve or something. It is normal. Here is the other problem though. <br />Eminent domain is a lawsuit in a court of law. It is costly. And yes, we have <br />attorneys on our staff that can file those lawsuits but the Mayor is trying to gut the <br />PONC fund money as we speak because he says he doesn't have much money and <br />then we are going to wind up having to use our attorneys to file these lawsuits. It <br />is non judicious use of our money. Please do not pass CA -27. Thank you. <br />CHR. ADAMS: Thank you. <br />SHANNON <br />RUDOLPH: Proposal No. CA -18 in support and Proposal No. 27 in opposition. <br />JAMES AKAU: <br />MS. RUDOLPH: Aloha, thanks for coming to Kona. I just want to reiterate <br />everyone else's voice here. I am in a hurry so I am just going to say that I support <br />CA -17, CA -22, and CA -18, and I don't support CA -27, eminent, willy-nilly <br />eminent domain makes me pretty uncomfortable. So thank you. <br />CHR. ADAMS: Thank you very much. Here in Kona I'd like to ask Susan <br />Dursin and Bimo Akiona to come to the table, and we will turn to Hilo testifiers. <br />Who do we have in Hilo please? <br />MS. MURAMOTO: Our last two testifiers are Deborah Ward speaking on three <br />items and James Akau speaking on one. <br />CHR. ADAMS: Alright. Thank you. Please come, please go ahead. <br />Proposal No. CA -18 in support. <br />MR. AKAU: Aloha. Oh, it's loud. Can you folks hear me? <br />CHR. ADAMS: It's difficult so you will need to speak into the mic. Thank you. <br />MR. AKAU: Okay. Pardon my volume everybody here in Hilo. Aloha pau kahi <br />a pau, o James Akau ko'u inoa a Ka`u. Aloha everybody, each and every one of <br />you. My name is James Akau. I am from the district of Ka`u and today I will be <br />speaking on behalf of Na Mamo 0 Kawa, our 501(c)(3) Kali community based <br />Hawaiian non-profit and first and foremost, I want to mahalo, mahalo, mahalo the <br />PONC Committee, the County Commissioners, Parks and Recreation, and the <br />Department of Finance for all of the support over the years and he mea nui, I want <br />to express my gratitude on behalf of our organization and our community for all <br />the support. I am here today to speak in support of CA -18 and there are a number <br />of reasons that I support and our organization supports CA -18 for initial approval. <br />Page 14 <br />