2021-07-15 Leeward Exh E (Comm 183)

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VITOUSEK: Okay, is there a second? YATES: I'll, I'll second just so that we can discuss. VITOUSEK: Okay, thank you. YATES: We are, Commissioner DeFranco, your, the motion is to submit this to County Council to remove Commissioner Van Pernis? DEFRANCO: Right, we have to make a motion so we can have a discussion YATES: Right— DEFRANCO: ightDEFRANCO: this isn't, right now we just need to discuss it, and that's why we are doing this is because YATES: Okay. DEFRANCO: Okay. YATES: Okay, so, discussion? VITOUSEK: Go ahead, Commissioner DeFranco. DEFRANCO: Yeah, I can start with the discussion, because I, I first want to sort of respond to Commissioner Van Pernis's letter that he sent out to all of us. And I felt like I just wanted to ask him—Commissioner Van Pernis, did you write this letter? Did you write this? Did you write this letter that— VAN hatVAN PERNIS: Just,just a minute VITOUSEK: It's on mute (indiscernible–simultaneous speech). There. No, you didn't get it. No,just once. VAN PERNIS: Okay, first of all, it's not a letter; as you may recall, I was granted privilege of writing testimony or writing questions, and that's what this is, is my written testimony. Secondly, I did write this testimony. DEFRANCO: Thank you. I, because I, in reading it, I just felt like maybe we were at different meetings, because some of the things that you talk about, especially paragraph IV [sic-V], you know, the council did not vote in your favor; it voted to defer to see how you would behave in the meetings to come. There was no deferral, I mean there was no agreement, and that it isn't without exception that you are supported by the communities. So maybe you feel that way, and I honor that, but that isn't how I see it. As you know, I testified at, complimenting you on all the years of service you'd given to Kona and helping everybody, and I appreciate that, but as you know, I feel that you are ill-suited to this position. I have found you in the past to be adversarial 6 EXHIBIT E