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Mr. Goodenow: <br />Ms. Thal: <br />Mr. Goodenow: <br />Ms. Thal: <br />Mr. Goodenow: <br />Ms. Thal: <br />and us having to actually police our Council...to me...alarms go <br />off with that. Again my expectation is that there be a single <br />minded service that our County Council and our legislative bodies <br />deliver on our behalf. And that again goes back to the protection <br />of the public trust. So I had to clarify this out for myself today <br />when I came here was that actually the Ethics Board not only as <br />another layer of protection but is really the foundation for us when <br />we don't have anywhere to go. And this is an absolutely perfect <br />example of how we depend on you to make decisions for us when <br />everything else has fallen through the cracks and our trust lands <br />and waters on access and all of those things are at risk. And they <br />as you know...maybe you don't know but it was a kanaka in the <br />native Hawaiian. Those things have been disappearing rapidly. <br />Just in my 20 years places that I've been able to go, waters that <br />we've had access to. Lands, pristine aquifers and all of those kinds <br />of things are disappearing quickly so it really will rests now in <br />your hands to direct the County Council and direct the public on <br />how we can continue to protect these things for the future so. <br />Thank you. <br />Thank you. Okay the next testifier is Sheri Thal. <br />Hello. Thank you for meeting today. I just have one point just <br />about the phone thing. Koohan Paik really just wants to listen in <br />on the meeting and she was hoping that she could be patched in <br />just to listen without testimony. Is that possible to do that. That's <br />really why she called this morning. <br />We might take that up in another part of the agenda. <br />Okay. <br />We just continue with the testimony but that's a suggestion. Thank <br />you. <br />Sure, sure. I'm sorry. Okay. So I'm here because I'm a <br />constituent of Ms. Kierkiewicz. I'm in District 4 and I...I just <br />have a basic principle. The basic principle is of representative <br />democracy for me that Ms. Kierkiewicz is my voice. And she is <br />here to serve the people in District 4 and the whole kind of issue <br />for me is that I really want to make sure that Ms. Kierkiewicz is <br />serving the people of Puna and not a client or a former client or a <br />corporate interest. And that she's really being our voice and that <br />I'm here because I wanna know what procedurally should happen <br />in instances when you cross over with business into the County <br />Council proceedings. What happens? This is really what I wanna <br />7 <br />