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hui malama i ke ala `(31ili e ho'QMAU i ke kuG M0'G p4n0 Website: www.alaulili.com- Email: kealaulili@gmail.com- PO Box 6, Pa'auilo, Hawai'i 96776 Facebook: Hui Malama i ke Ala 'Ulili - Instagram: @huimau_ohana, #huiMAU January 28,2026 Hui Malama i ke Ala`Ulili PO Box 6 Pa`auilo,HI 96776 Aloha mai kakou,Public Open Space&Natural Resource Preservation Commission, I am writing to express my support for the nomination of`aina at Haina(ma kai), Hamakua, Hawaii (TMK 3-4-5-002-081-0000) for purchase and protection through the PONC process. Under the pono stewardship of community partners in the Haina/Honoka`a community,I genuinely believe this `aina can serve to benefit the well-being of this community for generations to come. My name is No`eau Peralto, and I serve as the Executive Director of Hui Malama i ke Ala `Ulili (huiMAU)—a community-based nonprofit organization located in Pa`auilo, Hamakua. Our organization's mission is to"re-establish the systems that sustain our community,"with the long-term vision of empowering `ohana with the capacity to live and thrive in Hamakua for generations. As stewards of over 1100 acres of`aina in the ahupua`a of Koholalele,we understand the critical role of community-based governance and stewardship of `aina in the cultivation and maintenance of community well-being. Over the past century, our communities in Hamakua have experienced vast displacement and dispossession from the `aina in our moku, especially along our district's rugged coastline. Efforts like this to protect our coastal lands for community access and stewardship are urgently needed to hold space for the future generations of our community to be able to continue to live and thrive in this place we call home. Our organization has collaborated for many years with Honoka`a High School,the Honoka`a Heritage Center, the Hamakua Youth Center, and The Kohala Center and we are confident that, given the opportunity, this collective of community organizations and institutions can and will effectively collaborate to steward these `aina in ways that will be of great benefit to the Hamakua community. Please accept this letter as an expression of my utmost support for the efforts of leaders in our community to Purchase of this Property through the PONC process to protect and steward this `aina for the future generations of Hamakua. Me ke aloha`aina, No`eau Peralto,PhD. Executive Director Hui Malama i ke Ala`Ulili Hui Malama i ke Ala 'Ulili is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization. Sugg.26-03