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State generated procedure, and if you are not going to have an election and you are going to <br />have someone appointed, nomination papers are not really what you want to utilize. I ask <br />that you repair that. My other comments are in Communication 113. <br />CA -33, I refer you to Communication 115, and for CA -35, to Communication 114. This is <br />the only Charter Amendment proposal that I feel we said we actually oppose. The rest we <br />just provide comments. I think if you look at some of the other Charters, it's pretty simple. <br />It says, for recall, if there is more than a year left to serve, you go do the election. They <br />don't go into all of the details here. I would suggest that is a more prudent approach. Let <br />the election experts work on the finer details of that, and not put that in the Charter. My <br />comments are in Communication 114. Pat Nakamoto and I are here and would be happy to <br />answer any questions you might have. Thank you. <br />CHR. HAITSUKA: Thank you, Mr. Goodenow. Next we have Mr. Kahawaiola'a. Good <br />afternoon, Mr. Kahawaiola'a. <br />PATRICK KAHAWAIOLA'A <br />(At this time Patrick Kahawaiola'a, came forward to address members of the Charter <br />Commission.) <br />MR. KAHAWAIOLA'A: Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and members of the Charter <br />Commission. May I just take this opportunity to wish all of you a Mele Kalikimaka and <br />Ha' ole Makahiki Hou. And thank you for the work that you have done over the last ten <br />months, and I would really like to thank your clerk, Karen, who continually, month after <br />month, sends me an agenda. <br />Obviously my appearance here today is because I believe it is getting close to the end, and <br />after reading your paraphrase that testimony will be taken only on items on the agenda, I <br />felt that I needed to find something on the agenda so I could raise my question. <br />Communication 109 is definitely something I will definitely support. I hope that more <br />public hearings are held in communities and or afforded opportunities for Native <br />Hawaiians to continue to make testimony. I believe there is not too much in the Charter <br />that deals with Native Hawaiians. For the last eleven months I raised the question at the <br />very opening of this Commission about the definitions in Section 1 -1 and Section 1 -2, the <br />incorporation of the geographical limitations. The plain language in the Charter says that <br />you have the rights on all the lands in the County, except I need to find out if that included <br />or excluded Hawaiian Homelands. Therefore, I came here, to make sure that this <br />Commission would do diligence in reviewing the Charter for the next ten years, that some <br />serious investigation or language to look into the request that we as Native Hawaiians have <br />made based on the fact that the very first part of your Charter speaks distinctly to the lands <br />and it incorporates - -if I look at it from the standpoint of a Native Hawaiian -- Hawaiian <br />Homelands. It does not exempt Hawaiian Homelands, so I need that clarification before <br />we go any further, because your ordinances and rezoning ordinances and the Hawaii <br />County Code may or may not have some affect on Hawaiian Homelands when it's set aside <br />for the purpose of the Act, which is to rehabilitate Native Hawaiians. <br />5 <br />