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CHR. HAITSUKA: Next we have Margaret Wille. Good afternoon. MARGARET WILLE (At this time Margaret Wille came forward to address members of the Charter Commission.) MS. WILLE: Greetings. Margaret Wille, Waimea. I would like to start with CA -26. The purpose of this amendment is to memorialize the County's responsibility under the State Constitution to ensure that development of the natural resources of the County are done in a manner consistent with their conservation and to add cultural resources to this responsibility. I just hope that you all look at yourselves assort of the far - sighted entity of the County. The Mayor, the Council are all working on a day -to -day level, week -to -week level, month -to- month. But, who is there looking how do we - -you don't meet again, you meet every ten years basically, whether it's you or whoever is in your place - -go through all of this I encourage you to keep that perspective that you are the one group that really has the kuleana to promote a vision that looks towards not just today or tomorrow, not just this generation, but future generations and the future of this island, the survival of this island. This is one, probably for me - -and this is really the whole Public Trust Doctrine - -you get into something that us lawyers talk about. So it's trying to bring it down to the level of the dirt and the ground, but that's really what it is all about, looking out for the island and the natural resources and the cultural resources. This was really clarified in 2006, when the Hawaii Supreme Court made a determination that it's not just the State's responsibility to preserve and protect natural resources, it is also the County's. It was the County that was fighting this and saying that it should really be left to the State. I encourage you -- -What it basically does is encourage a more far - sighted decision - making process. It isn't anything that says you have to decide one way or another; it just says we want you to also look at how this will impact future generations in your decisions that effect cultural and natural resources. So, I appreciate that and I hope that you will support it. If you have any questions about it, I think Commissioner Jarman is good, and I would be happy to answer any questions myself. The next one is really on the Community Development Plan. What Tim Rees brought up, that some of these may be appropriate to ordinances, and some may be appropriate to the Charter; I've been trying to keep that in mind and look at which ones, where is it really important that this is the place that they should be located. The Charter sets forth the importance of the General Plan. The Community Development Plans are like the second stage of that plan, and so what you are doing is really recognizing that, and recognizing what was spoken to the people; that this would be important, that it would be an ordinance, and that it would be law. The big problem in South Kohala was that no one wanted to do this because they all said, "This is just going to be the same old story, the old guiding principles, it's advisory." And it really took a lot to get - -at least in South Kohala, working with all those little small groups of people - -to have trust. This is what this is all about. I see it as trust. I do want to address Commissioner Osborne's question, and that is with the specific provision of the Action Committee reviewing the permits. It is basically giving that group a voice. It doesn't say you have to listen to what they said. It says that they shall forward it to the Planning Director in a timely manner. I am a co -chair on the Waimea Planning and Design Review Committee. If we don't get it in on the date, it's like it doesn't happen. So it is 23