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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -9 March 8, 2019 Minister Stevens. They have no jurisdiction over this Kingdom. And the other one is the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875 that was not signed by U.S. President and King Kalakaua. Thank you. Oh, and another thing too before... this is Dwight Vicente again. I got a copy of the (inaudible) Law Review that I want to make a part of the record. This is from the U.H. (University of Hawai`i). Thank you. CHR. ADAMS: Thank you. If I could ask the next two testifiers if you would please come to the mics there. Here we have, next here in Kona we have Cherie Griffore, I am sure I am messing up the last name. CHERIE GRIFFORE:Proposal No. CA -18 in support and Proposal No. 27 in opposition. MS. GRIFFORE: That's okay. CHR. ADAMS: And then I noticed that you provided two separate documents, but you will be speaking for... you have two items here, so you will be speaking for a maximum of five minutes when you come up one time. MS. GRIFFORE: Okay. CHR. ADAMS: Alright. MS. GRIFFORE: Hi, my name is Cherie Griffore and I wanted to say thank you to all the Commissioners. I know this is voluntary and I know it is a lot of hard work. You guys have a really important job. Thank you all for everything you do for our County and our people. I am still learning the legal speak so I will let these guys all handle it since they all know. And I am going to speak more about the personal effects of this fund. I wanted to support CA -18, the maintenance fund. The non -profits, let them get paid. It is hard work busting your butt out there, cleaning and you get all dirty, but it feels good, but if you could get paid, it would help encourage a lot more people to come out. There are a bunch of surf contests, so the 2% land fund was used to purchase O`oma. There is the Tom Bum Surf Contest which is for young girls and it empowers them and gives them a sense of community. They all look forward to it every year. There is also the Keiki Surf for the Earth contest that's coming up. And this is the one where Karen and her husband Gary make the signs that are down at Pine Trees that encourage everybody to clean the land and pack your trash in and out. So all these things are really good for our community. It's the heart of our community and it is very far outreaching. Banyans is coming up if we do need to purchase that area it would be hopefully from the 2% fund. That has the Keiki Surf contest from Shane Dorian, so for that surf contest you have to have good grades and you have to be... you can't be in trouble or anything, so it is a good motivation for all the kids to do something and they can see that some of our local surfers have made it big, and gives them incentive to go out and do these things. Page 7