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is that some places have multiple addresses; this is according to Ms. Iwasaki again and <br />Frankie Stapleman, of Puna, who once worked for the census. So how do you know <br />which address to use? Third, there are twice as many taxable parcels, about 140,000, <br />compared to addresses, about 70,000. For many parcels this only means there was no <br />building permit taken out yet, but for some, it could mean they were not assigned an <br />address. The fourth reason, some assigned addresses are incorrect. Once I was told I <br />couldn't vote because election officials didn't have my new address although I had told <br />the Elections Office months earlier. Elections Office finally changed my address to a <br />street that was a mile away from my real house. The Planning Department finally got my <br />street name, gave me an address, but Elections kept sending me post cards saying I lived <br />at the other address. When I voted or signed petitions, I didn't know which address to <br />use. The fifth reason, homeless people don't have addresses. I don't know if they can <br />still vote and sign petitions, but if anyone needs a voice, they do. In short, requiring a <br />residence address is kind of like the Southern states giving literacy tests. It takes away <br />people's voice in government. <br />When the Country Comfort folks start singing that will start my testimony on CA -15; I <br />am supporting 2% and not 1/2% for the Land Fund. (Music and Slides) "Beaches they <br />sell to build their hotels, my fathers and I once knew. Birds all along, sunlight at dawn, <br />singing Waimanalo blues. " <br />CHR. HAITSUKA: Next we have Mr. Rees. <br />TIM REES <br />(At this time Tim Rees came forward to address members of the Charter Commission.) <br />MR. REES: Aloha Mr. Chairman and Commission members. I, too, would like to thank <br />you for the work that you all have been doing. As I've stated before, I think you are <br />doing a pretty commendable job, and the fact that you are not paid for it, that you are <br />donating your time is great. I would like to speak first on Comm. 184. I am glad to see <br />that this Commission has asked for more time and that the Council is in accordance with <br />that extended deadline. You have had an enormous amount of work to do, and I <br />appreciate you in every way that you have opened this up to the public forum; adding <br />additional meetings has been great. <br />CA -37, I oppose this simply because not all type of research that is required in this <br />County is directly related to economic development. I think that since we are a university <br />town, we should retain this. We are trying to promote high tech in everything we do <br />nowadays. We are trying to promote ecological sciences. We are always using the <br />buzzwords sustainability. Sometimes those things go hand in hand and other times there <br />are other areas where you need to do conservation research. We need to be utilizing the <br />services of our university much more and to a higher degree, I believe, and I think <br />keeping the name department of research and possibly economic development. I just <br />don't like seeing research being taken out of there. Enough said on that. <br />