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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -12 June 7, 2019 <br />CHR. ADAMS: Thank you for your testimony. In Hilo if I could ask Deborah <br />Ward and Nimr Tamimi to please come to the table. Again if you could please <br />provide your name, the agenda item that you are speaking to, if it is more than one <br />agenda item it is a five minute max on testimony, of course it is three minutes if it <br />is a single testimony, a single agenda item. And speak into the mic. That would <br />be great. <br />DEBORAH WARD: Proposal Nos. CA -9 and CA -18, commenting. <br />MS. WARD: Good Morning everyone. My name is Deborah Ward, W -A -R -D, I <br />have submitted my testimony so you know pretty much what I am going to say. I <br />just wanted to point out that we the public have been coming for at least 12 <br />sessions, to these meetings and I want to encourage you to consider the public <br />testimony and consider the public hearings and know that the large body of <br />testifiers is strongly in support of CA -9, amended to include the single agent, and <br />CA -18 to cover the expenses and pay of the non -profits who are giving their time <br />and their lives, and their weekends to keeping these public land public, and clean <br />and tidy, and cutting the trees and hauling away the dead cars, and cleaning up the <br />trash. I can certainly attest to the enormous amount of rather unpleasant work that <br />it takes in order to keep these beautiful pieces of land clean, and it doesn't just <br />cost in physical energy. It costs in their trucks, in their time, it costs in the food <br />that they provide their volunteers, I mean it is a massive contribution, none of <br />which is paid for by the grants at this point, and I just strongly ask you to consider <br />that all the public testimony that has been given so far is very much in support of <br />these two amendments as changed and I ask you please to consider that. Mahalo. <br />CHR. ADAMS: Thank you. If I could ask Curtis Beck please to come to the mic. <br />Thanks. Mr. Tamimi. <br />NIMR TAMIMI: Proposal No. CA -26 in opposition. <br />MR. TAMIMI: Thank you. Good morning Commissioners. <br />CHR. ADAMS: If you could... yeah. Turn on the mic. <br />MR. TAMIMI: Testing one... <br />CHR. ADAMS: Go ahead and press the button. <br />MR. TAMIMI: This one? The top button? <br />CHR. ADAMS: Yup. There you go. <br />MR. TAMIMI: Hello. Sorry about that. Aloha Commissioners. My name is <br />Nimr Tamimi. I am a life-long resident of Hilo, I have been practicing <br />engineering in Hilo for over 30 years. I would like to thank you for your efforts <br />Page 4 <br />