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<br />HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER COMMISSION
<br />Transcript of Meeting of October 27, 1999
<br />Hawaii County Liquor Commission Conference Room,
<br />Hilo Lagoon Center
<br />Attendance: J. Ray, M. Herkes, R. Higashi, S. Irvine,, G. Martin, J. Santangelo, G. Yoshiyama, Counsel
<br />Chris Yuen
<br />Absent: E. Alonzo, S. Bess, K. Balog, D. Kurozawa
<br />And 5 members of the public in attendance.
<br />The meeting was called to order at 3:02 p.m.
<br />RAY: The October 27th Special Meeting of the 1999-2000 County Charter Commission is called to
<br />order. Present at this time; myself John Ray, Chair; Roland Higashi, Vice Chair; Marni Herkes; Sue
<br />Irvine; George Martin; John Santangelo; and Gary Yoshiyama, and we’re expecting a couple of other
<br />folks momentarily.
<br />Statements from the Public on Agenda Items. We have two folks signed up, Statements from the Public
<br />on Agenda Items. If anybody else wants to speak on anything on the agenda, you can. First, Patrick, you
<br />want to come up and introduce yourself.
<br />KAHAWA’OLA’A: We can come up there together because it’s basically the same.
<br />RAY: That’s fine. And try to speak into the mike. It’s not for hearing you; it’s because we record all this
<br />stuff, doing verbatim minutes.
<br />KAHAWA’OLA’A: I’d like to say good afternoon to the members of the Charter Commission. It gives
<br />me pleasure to be here for the fact I see, on your New Business, which is a general review of the
<br />Charter. I think that was not available at that particular time on your agenda items, obviously, as you
<br />were going through it, I don’t think you had a subject matter of a general review, but when we saw this,
<br />it compelled us to be here based in the Charter. And being that you were convened to review the
<br />Charter, myself, as a Native Hawaiian, has had great conflicts within this Charter, that I need to bring
<br />forward to this body who is going to make recommendations on how the Charter is to be revised, if any,
<br />or things that’s going to happen. I specifically would like to direct all of you to ARTICLE I, Section 1-1.
<br />The geographical limits on the Island of Hawaii, and all of the islands within these shores thereof, and
<br />the waters adjacent thereto, shall be the County of Hawaii. That, in itself, causes conflicts with myself as
<br />a Native Hawaiian, and it is inconsistent with the Federal and State laws, based on the Admissions Act
<br />compact, that in 1959, an agreement made between the State of Hawaii and the United States of
<br />America. Section 4 of the Admissions Act clearly states that the encumbrance on the premise known as
<br />Hawaiian home lands shall not be increased without the consent of the United States. It is clear by this
<br />definition of the geographical limits of the County of Hawaii, thereby your powers under this Charter
<br />shall be - it’s the whole island. Obviously, on this island, there are some conflicts because on this island,
<br />it’s my understanding, as a Native Hawaiian born on the homestead, that this island has the greatest
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