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Hawai`i County Charter Commission —Public Hearing April 2, 2019 <br />Is that under the... can you advise me if that is all contained within the CA -9 <br />item? I haven't had a chance to read that. <br />CHR. ADAMS: The CA -9 and the CA -18 actually encompass largely what you <br />were addressing. <br />MR. CULBERTSON: Okay fine. I think that is the popular effort that I am <br />networking around the island with people who want that fund to be strong and to <br />be used as it is intended. Just parenthetically, you know I appreciate you guys <br />coming out today because otherwise there is a tendency to become cynical about <br />this process. This was driven from the grassroots and at least voted on twice over <br />several years and yet the effort to sort of manipulate if you will, either overtly or <br />covertly behind the scenes the resource and how you know, it is going to be <br />administered is troubling to some of us. So that is a perception, so you being here <br />tonight, obviously going around the island and getting a read directly from the <br />people who have worked on this and want the intent and integrity to be followed <br />through, that is the message I am here to restate and I join with other folks. That <br />is all I have to say. <br />CHR. ADAMS: Great. Thank you very much. Francine Roby. <br />FRANCINE ROBY: Proposal No. CA -17, commenting. <br />MS. ROBY: (Inaudible) area, I wanted to speak to the CA -17 one, Establishing... <br />Establishes New Disaster and Emergency Fund. I have attempted in my own area <br />to get a neighborhood watch going and I got myself trained with the County <br />CERT program (Community Emergency Response Team) and as best as I could <br />tell, I was really the only person from my area in Honoka`a and it is kind of <br />shocking to me that the whole town of Honoka`a doesn't even have a CERT team <br />and I have been kind of working with a group that is in Pa'auilo and mauka of <br />(inaudible) to learn you know, how they have come to develop a group of people <br />who go around and assess what their capacity is to respond to situations and you <br />know they are a model. They are a great model, but we have got nobody up in <br />this... I mean there is a much larger group of people here. So I think that any <br />additional support that the County can give for repairs, for cleanup, for response, <br />for infrastructure, for communication systems, radios, you know, repeaters, that <br />kind of thing is critical because as we all know you know, one tree goes down and <br />everybody who thinks that their family is going to come rescue them, well that is <br />out the window. And we have seen a whole lot more you know, flooding that has <br />been happening these substantial rains that have come day after day, after day, <br />when the grounds can't even dry out and from what we know from the scientists <br />at U.H. (University of Hawai`i) Hilo and everywhere, you know, we are expecting <br />climate to continue to change and there to be increasing erratic heavier storms. <br />We have had some very substantial storms that we barely escaped you know the <br />last few years during hurricane season and we just can't overlook this stuff. We <br />know the roads you know is a whole separate category of people taking care of <br />Page 4 <br />