2017-05-15 Public Testimony on SMA 16-063 Contested Case

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and I talk to the sun, it talks to me. What we are doing is that your decision on this development is your decision, but can you live with it for down the road? It’s going to be real hard for all you guys to do that. I’m in the process of, I go own land on Ali‘i Drive also, a couple of acres I own. But I’m not gonna do nothing, we don’t, because my dad never, he never tell me what to do with them yet. What’s important here – and it’s hard for me to speak because, I don’t go out and testify on anything, because, you know, my son is a councilperson and it’s real hard for me to do things like this, but enough is enough for me. So, I speak for my own self; I don’t speak for him. Because, you know, like anything else, if Earl was working for me, I would fire him for coming up here – I’m joking. No, it’s, he can go stay by the beach with me. So, I don’t work for nobody; I work for myself. What’s important here is that my little keiki is important to me. And Simmy, I can tell you I know Simmy and Michael, and Makai over there – I remember his father pushing him up in the van and hit his head when he was a baby. I was with them. Right, Simmy? She’s a little small spunky person, outspoken sometimes, and we get, we get some different views in a lot of things that we do. But this view is important. You guys gonna make decisions not gonna happen; it’s gonna happen but it shouldn’t happen. We need to stop them. And I know my ‘ohana, the Alapai’s, they are all ‘ohana to me, the Kahulamū’s, they are all ‘ohana to me. And all the iwi-s over there, too. Tell them no. No. No go. I no like no buffer. No is no. There’s no change. So, for me if you guys come on my property, I’ll tell you no. I’ve got to deal with the homeless every week, every month, you know. So, my own land, but I still got to pay more money than I own them, because I’ve got to clean them. But, again, no is no. And it’s important that we keep our lands and all our ahupua‘a intact. Aunty Lily said everybody there. My father used to go up to the house, kūkākūkā, come down by Kahalu‘u, go down Keauhou, talk story. And when you see the, you listen to them talk, they talk in Hawaiian, you know, talking. But, again, I grew up in one tight family, we are one tight family. We come from the ali‘i family. I don’t have to say that. I know Keakealaniwahine, Keolonāhihi, that’s where Kū started. And I sit there, watch her, every day, every morning. Sun, sunrise, and she talk. Enough is enough. Okay? Mahalo nui loa for this beautiful day. Aunty, you have spoken for all of us. You are kupuna. And when you leave, hopefully, I’m gonna take your place. Aloha. Thank you. Thank you for listening. MANDY CAMPBELL: Aloha. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here today and listening intently to all of our comments and concerns. I know it’s a lot, but it’s, it’s important. My name is Mandy Johnson Campbell. I am a resident of Kailua-Kona, the Ahupua‘a of Hōlualoa, and Kahalu‘u is very important to me personally and has been for a long time. The first beach my babies went to, the first water that touched their feet – okay, kala mai. I’m an archaeologist by trade and an environmental compliance specialist. I’ve been doing this kind of work for over 15 years, so I’m familiar with the background research that goes into projects like this. Please understand that we love this place down to our bones. For many of us here, as you’ve heard, this is literal, as their families’ bones have lovingly been laid to rest there for over seven generations. You cannot be sure that you will avoid desecrating these resting places, as they are not all marked. And I respectfully disagree that in its present form this project can be done in a pono way, it cannot, I’m sorry. For many reasons that we’ve all been through, there’s no way you can build these massive buildings this close to the ocean in a culturally important place and have it 15 2017-05-15 Public Testimony on SMA 16-063 Contested Case