MIN CHARTER 2019-05-10 (2018-2020)

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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -11 May 10, 2019 acres but square miles, is the County of Hawai`i, but that is incorrect. The County of Hawai`i is only the lands... Crown and government lands rebranded as Hawaiian Home Lands. The other lands is not included and should not be included. They are separate and distinct. Just like Korea is divided by the 38 parallel, you have the North and the South and they are divided. You can see how they... the treatment of these two different lands are treated differently but yet they are controlled by the County and the State that is questionable. I think the County Charter should be limited to the Hawaiian Home Lands only and not the other lands. With that I will end with the reservation of the rights of this Kingdom under the Queen's Protest of January 17, 1893 against U.S. Minister Stevens that has yet to make its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, Article 3, Section 2, Clause 2, original but limited jurisdiction. And the other one is the Joint Resolution of 1898 where they ceded the illegally... the banana republic illegally ceded Crown and government lands consisting of one million seven hundred fifty thousand acres to the U.S. and it was incorporated under Article 4, Section 3, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution. And the other one is the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875 that never was. King Kalakaua nor did the U.S. President sign. Then you can go all the way back to 1820 where President Monroe appointed John C. Jones as the agent for the U.S. and he was in charge of the missionary family and the U.S. Navy that were sent here. Thank you. CHR. ADAMS: Thank you. I understand that we have a testifier here now in Kona. Ms. Wille. We have... I see the... if you would please identify yourself and then also the agenda items you will be speaking to, and you will have five minutes. MARGARET WILLE: Communication No. 15 and Proposal No. CA -28, CA -29, and CA -30 in support. MS. WILLE: Thank you Chair and Board. CHR. ADAMS: Thank you. MS. WILLE: I wanted to just make a general comment and this is sort of Articles I -XVI, in terms of some of the testimony that I have heard, sort of, well I would say sort of threatening that if you don't do certain things that we're as a County going to have to raise all of these taxes and we ought to be very careful what we do here, that it might... how much money it costs. And, you know I just want to say that there are a lot of ways that the Council could raise money in fair ways that they are not doing. There was a consultant hired and I think they were paid three hundred or four hundred thousand. They came out with a number of different ways and what taxes could be raised and another person on the Council and I were on the committee and worked on that sort of coming up with how to implement those and we did implement some, such as increasing how... the way resorts are taxed and the people who are dead... and otherwise, that you really have to be a resident. But some of the... any of the, any of the ones that really Page 3