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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -11 May 10, 2019 is supposed to be always available to the family and I wanted to make sure that you understand that the United Nations Human Rights... Dr. Alfred de Zayas, he had sent a letter to the members of the judiciary for the State of Hawai`i and the land court basically talking about the issue of ongoing plundering of Hawaiian's land and that also that the... I will just read it to you, "pointing out historical and ongoing plundering of the Hawaiian's land particularly of those heirs and descendants with land titles that originate from the distribution of lands under the authority of the Hawaiian Kingdom." And so, this particular letter it goes into discussion of violations of Article 17 under Human Rights. That was promoted under... promulgated under Eleanor Roosevelt, and so there are certain issues that the Charter needs to be amended with these particular laws and things to coordinate so far as policy on heirs and native tenants, those who have kuleana rights... also I just wanted to mention that our own County, we have what is called a Kuleana Land Tax Exemption, so on the front you will see the County ordinances and you know the verbiage of that, and then on the back which I will submit for you to see, so on the back of it is actually Kingdom law as to what is a native tenant, what rights do they have, and so according to law, on Crown and government lands and by permission on a Chiefs land... MS. KALEIMAMAHU: You have 30 seconds. MS. MAHI-HANAI: Okay, that they would be allowed to remain on the property with permission and the other thing is down at Kawa in particular, the native tenants need the key. They need the key so they can go in and out and to tend to the native gardens. Some of the things were planted at night so it is culturally incorrect to shut the gate at six o'clock so far as the native tenants or heirs with land locked royal patent grants, kuleana lands, and what not, that are located within Kawa. And so I am just here to say that I am very disappointed in the Corporation Counsel for not following the HRS 172-11. I had a meeting with the Federal Government, Department of Justice, FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigations), I was instructed to go there by the Sheriffs concerning the police and the non-compliance to the HRS involving Hawaiian lands, kuleana, and what not, so just to wrap it up, I have some documents and amendments that I think should be considered and we will need an ad hoc committee and of course that will lead to public testimony so... because when I did give a presentation on native tenants Hoa'aina, only one person in the PONC Commission even knew what that was. So if it is court ordered, we need to figure out a policy. Thank you so much. Aloha. CHR. ADAMS: Thank you for your testimony. Is there any other testifiers in Hilo? Page 6