2024-04-15 Bill 121 Britt Palmars

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principles of justice and equity our laws and country are founded. The US and Hawaiian Constitution requires impartiality in governing our communities, and incentivizing the county to prioritize revenue generation over the protection of individual and property rights and liberties is illegal on many counts) None of this seemed to particularly endear Kimball to the attendees. "There's still due process — if somebody gets a complaint, the (planning) director determines it's a violation, they get a fee, they have the appeals board, they have the Third Circuit Court—due process still exists," (This is the exact opposite of DUE PROCESS which is: INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY, NOT GUILTY UNTIL YOU CAN PROVE TO THE COUNTY THAT IS INCENTIVIZED TO FINE AS OFTEN AND HIGH AS POSSIBLE TO FUND THEIR DEPARTMENT) Following Kimball's presentation, the commission reopened the floor to public testimony, which resumed more venomously than before. Joshua Montgomery, president of the Ohana Aina Association, Big Island's vacation rental association, said passing the bill would be "malfeasance." "They need to go back and redraft this at least," Montgomery later told the Tribune-Herald. "It's malfeasance to do this now." For their part, the commissioners were divided on the matter. Commissioner Matthias Kusch, himself a TAR owner, said the new regulations are "not that bad" and told critics "don't be afraid of change," which was echoed by fellow commissioner Chantel Perrin.On the other hand, Commission chair Dennis Lin and vice chair Louis Daniele were critical of the bill, with Daniele calling it "overreach" and saying it overcomplicates an issue that should be simple. He said he had a hard time understanding the bill, and expected members of the public will only be even more confused. "I'm just thinking about people like my grandmother," Lin said. "Can she write all this, draw her own site plan and her own floor plan, get her own (general excise) tax clearance, and go submit it to the Planning Department? I don't think so. And those are the kind of people we're looking at here who have the (TARs)." Lin and Daniele echoed several testifiers in urging that an economic impact study be conducted to determine the bill's potential long-term financial effects. (Bill 121 has been drafted without conducting a single economic impact study or market analysis to determine what the short term or long term effects will be on our Big Island community. With a Bill of this Magnitude and with such profound ramifications, Bill 121 CANNOT MOVE FORWARD without an unbiased Economic Impact Study performed. Hawaii County owes it to our Hawaiian Ohana to fulfill their oaths and fiduciary duties to the residents of Hawaii to thoroughly investigate and collect and develop ACCURATE data, before