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Hawai`i County Charter Commission — Public Hearing April 4, 2019 have to wait a really long time. So again, it might not be to go in the Charter. It may be that working with Department of Finance, cause they are going to manage it, and I think they would want to have not one big fat deadline every year where everybody tries to apply for funds, but maybe twice a year or something like that, so... CA -27, I heard a lot of testimony at the last hearing, people talking about eminent domain, using the PONC fund to get easements via eminent domain. I strongly oppose that. It... as I said before and I know you have heard this. It is just the wrong... it is just wrong . It is the wrong way to use the PONC fund. It would erase so much good will. It would prevent people from wanting to add to, do matching grants and all kinds of really true parade of horribles I think would happen with that idea. There might be some other way to think of a way to acquire easements, but anyway, I see that it is still on the list so... well, thank you very much and again, thanks for being here this evening. I really appreciate it. CHR. ADAMS: Thanks so much. If I could ask Cory Harden to please come to the table. Sir, go ahead. SCOTT UEHARA: Proposal No. CA -14 and CA -15, commenting. MR. UEHARA: Good evening. My name is Scott Uehara from the Hawai`i Police Department. I am coming here today to speak about CA -14 and CA -15. There's just some alterations we wanted to make for some of the verbiage inside of this and I do applaud you guys for updating some of the outdated terminology in this section of the Charter. But specifically I wanted to speak about Section 6- 4.4, section (a). This one is to include the Office of Prosecuting Attorney and the Hawai`i Police Department to be also excluded such as the Department of Water Supply. That is something that you know it is okay. In CA -15 it's in there but in CA -14 it is not, so I just want to be sure that it is included in CA -14 also. And then also just so that the DIT (Department of Information Technology) cannot exclude other departments from using shared resources. I also wanted to include this last line of "exemption will not preclude shared resources used amongst departments." And that is all I have for the Section 6-4.4(a). The other part I have, I wanted to clarify also was Section 6-4.3 for the qualifications for DIT Director. I wanted to add in the idea that the Director will have at least three years of administrative and managerial experience in an information technology environment which is comparable to that of the Hawai`i County Information Technology infrastructure. Right now it just says at least three years of which shall have been in an administrative and managerial capacity in a technology environment at least comparable to that of the County's system. Thank you. CHR. ADAMS: Alright. Thanks very much. If I could ask that Betty Oberman please come to the table. Ms. Harden. Page 5