2015-07-08 Regular Session Minutes

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Ms. Kahakalau: Thank you. * Testifiers from Kohala Ms. Sweeney: Council with your indulgence. I need a couple of points of clarification. Ms. Kahakalau: Yes. Ms. Sweeney: Is there a time limit on comments? Ms. Kahakalau: Yes as we said earlier there's a three minute time limit for each item on the agenda. Ms. Sweeney: Okay thank you and second point of clarification I have here an affidavit who do I send this affidavit to? Ms. Kahakalau: That would go to our staff Emily and the staff will get you her contact information. Ms. Sweeney: Thank you. I like to introduce Alex Achmat who will be representing himself. He will be discussing three petition items 2015-07, 09 and 03. The second commenter will be Peter Risley who will be representing himself on 2015-04, 07 and 09. Please go ahead and state your name for the record. 6) Alex Achmat(Kohala) signed up to testify on agenda items 4b, 4d, and 6d. Mr. Achmat: Good morning my name is Alex Achmat and I aggregate my comments to keep it brief. I also came to your hearing on the thirteen of May and at that time I expected to hear the issues surrounding the P-card abuse by the Mayor, but sadly the petitioner citizen never got to make his comments. We ended up spending the morning listening to lawyers for both the Mayor and Ms. Sako trying to scare the Committee by fabricating different scenarios of conflict with the Attorney General and that led you to think about deferring the petition by Mr. Hyland. The next day in the Star Advertiser, in an article by Dan Nakaso let me read it to you. "The State Attorney General said it was unusual and unnecessary for the three member Hawai`i County Board of Ethics appointed by Mayor Billy Kenoi to postpone hearings a complaint about Kenoi's hundred and twenty-nine thousand dollars in County purchase card spending until the AG's office finishes a separate criminal investigation. I don't think it's necessary for the County Ethics Board to wait for a criminal investigation to finish up before 8