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Hawai`i County Charter Commission — Public Hearing April 3, 2019 <br />I am here to speak on two items. CA -9 and CA -18, about the PONC funds and I <br />have been attending PONC meetings, familiarizing myself in understanding what <br />the process are and kind of work that they do. And I think that it is really <br />wonderful. The PONC funds being provided to be able to invest in our precious <br />open space and conserving our cultural and natural resources. And to be able to <br />do that, it is very important that... and requires that staff be skilled and ensured <br />that the process works and being able to... it's complex work, it has constraints, it <br />has time demands, and I think it has been demonstrated that there may be more <br />adequately ... be able to do that if it were through Finance and that they would be <br />able to adequately support it. I mixed that up didn't I? <br />CA -9, I am sorry, it has been a really long day for me. CA -9 is about the <br />dedicated staff and so all that kind of bares out, but the focus is to be able to have <br />instead of a staff member that is able to work on it as their time permits, being <br />able to have a dedicated staff person allows them to really focus on the work and <br />prioritize it appropriately and get the work done within the timelines to make the <br />workflow work. <br />And then CA -18 is the ability for the maintenance to be able to consider moving it <br />over to Finance from Parks and Rec and again, in my observations you know, <br />being able to do...timeliness... the work is... requires clear agreements and at its <br />core being able to be better aligned with the skills and workflows in Finance <br />rather than that Parks and Rec. I think something like this could always report <br />anywhere if you had the people that were dedicated and skilled, but in looking at <br />the past history here, it looks like it might be a better fit in finance from what I <br />see. So thank you very much. I appreciate it. <br />CHR. ADAMS: Thank you very much. I see we have another speaker, Cherie <br />Griffore, if you would please come to the table. Thank you. <br />Again, please provide your name, any organization you are speaking for, you <br />have six minutes or up to six minutes and then please speak into the mic so that <br />all of our members can hear you. <br />CHERIE <br />GRIFFORE: Proposal No. CA -8, CA -9, and CA -18, commenting. <br />MS. GRIFFORE: Okay. My name is Cherie Griffore and I am representing <br />myself. I am a resident of Kailua-Kona. First off I wanted to thank you guys for <br />not cutting the funding for the PONC, keeping it at the 2%, this is a huge fund for <br />everybody in our community and it helps us residents be able to be the nice, <br />friendly, aloha people that we are to everybody here. For the... I wanted to talk <br />about the CA -9, which is the one person to manage the fund. I think this is huge <br />because right now nobody is managing it and we have a surplus and we have so <br />many properties that need to be bought before the corporations buy us out of <br />everything. Trying to keep the balance for the residents and the corporations. <br />Page 8 <br />