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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -9 March 8, 2019 <br />bring this item out of postponement or do we just start it? We are good to go? <br />We don't have to do that, only if we were tabled would we have to do something? <br />Eventually I will get this. <br />Alright, so where we are right now, is that if I recall, we were considering item <br />(h), so let me make sure I get this all correct. So it would have been 10-16 (h), the <br />amendment that you have there, you had an amendment that we were working on <br />at the time and then you and the individual, I believe it was Commissioner <br />Hopkins, pulled back your motion and your second so that we could then enter a <br />postponement. <br />MS. RICE: Correct. <br />CHR. ADAMS: Alright, so Commissioner Rice, the floor is yours. <br />MS. RICE: I would like to make a motion to delete (h) and after we go forward I <br />will explain why. <br />CHR. ADAMS: So you are, just for a point of clarification, you are amending <br />your motion. You have a motion on the floor to pass CA -18, so you are amending <br />that motion by deleting (h) out of your proposal? <br />MS. RICE: Correct, and then in addition, can I do another one or do I wait? <br />CHR. ADAMS: If it is going to be a replacement. <br />MS. RICE: It is an addition. <br />CHR. ADAMS: It's an addition to (h) or it is a... <br />MS. RICE: No. It is a different... <br />CHR. ADAMS: Right. So, I would just suggest, let's just take care of (h) real <br />quick. Is there a second to that amendment? It has been seconded by <br />Commissioner Galimba. Alright, discussion on that amendment. <br />MS. RICE: Okay. I spoke to several former and present County staff members at <br />great length who have worked and are presently working with Public Access, <br />Open Space, and Natural Resources Preservation Maintenance Fund and they <br />were not in favor of setting a specific money percent in the Charter for the <br />stewardship groups. When a property is acquired, the County has certain <br />obligations that require funding to develop and maintain the property for use and <br />some of those obligations are included in the funding agreement if monies come <br />from say the federal government or some other outside source, and it can include <br />requirements such as protection for endangered species. Also, each stewardship <br />group's project budget is unique to that group and its proposal and in some <br />Page 28 <br />