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With that said, again, I would like to thank all of you for serving this County in whatever <br />capacity you have; I know you guys all have a busy schedule. To several of you, I would <br />like to give my aloha; Commissioner Kealoha and Commissioner Alapaki, and to all of <br />you, mahalo for serving and for serving the Native Hawaiians well. <br />CHR. HAITSUKA: Thank you, Mr. Kahawaiola'a. Next we have Mr. Daniel Taylor. <br />Good afternoon, Mr. Taylor. <br />DANIEL TAYLOR <br />(At this time Daniel Taylor, came forward to address members of the Charter Commission.) <br />MR. TAYLOR: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for giving me a few minutes to speak to you. <br />With reference to CA -25, I would like to take a few minutes to persuade you of the <br />importance of including the Community Development Plans (CDP) and the Action <br />Committees, to help implement them, and to imbed them into to the County Charter. There <br />are already persuasive reasons why this is important. The Community Development Plans <br />are a link between the communities and the county government. As such, they provide an <br />important communications link whereby community members can translate their desires <br />and wishes to the county government. I prepared a one page statement for you to read, so I <br />don't need to read that to you, but that's the essence of it. I strongly believe that this <br />should be embedded in the County Charter and I strongly encourage you to consider that <br />very seriously. Thank you. <br />CHR. HAITSUKA: Thank you, Mr. Taylor. Next we have Mr. Tim Rees. Good <br />afternoon, Mr. Rees. <br />TIM REES <br />(At this time Tim Rees, came forward to address members of the Charter Commission.) <br />MR. REES: Good afternoon Mr. Chairman and Charter Commission members. I echo a <br />lot of sentiment that I am hearing here today. I'm actually very proud of this Charter <br />Commission, that our community was able to be represented by such dedicated folks. My <br />hat's off to all of you; I think you have done an exemplary job. I have just kind of followed <br />your proceedings through bits and pieces through time and again, I just echo the same <br />statement on that. One thing I wanted to thank you for first off, is for actually putting your <br />names on the agenda. I think that's great. I think it's an important part of generating <br />public interest in the matters of whatever body or board or commissions' agenda it is. It <br />helps to generate interest. We like to see how people from our community function in <br />different capacities. <br />On four -year council terms, CA -18, I am pretty much going to echo Ms. Harden's <br />statements earlier, and basically for the same reasons she stated. I think it should be linked <br />with the recall amendment that you have on here also. But, I'm not so set in that. I think <br />that in these times with such fast changing circumstances; economic, political, world, you <br />know everything going on these days, I'm not so much against the two -year terms as I first <br />was. What I have observed over the year at the County Council, I thought two years was <br />A <br />