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and it protects resources that we can't replace like watersheds. What is it worth, having <br />water and trees? I support having development approvals reviewed by Community <br />Development Plan Action Committees. I support adequate recall and impeachment <br />provisions, and as far as appointments to boards and commissions, I support having council <br />members nominate them, because they know the people in their district better. Thank you <br />for listening, and thank you for your volunteer work. <br />CHR. HAITSUKA: Thank you very much. <br />MR. NAHALE -A: Thank you for coming, for taking the time. I appreciate it, and I thought <br />your testimony was really well done. It was very to the point, very clear. Can we get a copy <br />or that? Okay, I just got it. Thank you very much. <br />CHR. HAITSUKA: Next we have Margaret Wille. Good evening, Ms. Wille. <br />MARGARET WILLE <br />(At this time Margaret Wille came forward to address members of the Charter Commission.) <br />MS. WILLE: Thank you very much for listening tome again. I want to just, in terms of <br />what is important to the public, I want to first go back to what Tim Reese said, that you don't <br />want to have too many amendments on here. But, I think it's not the number of amendments, <br />it's how simple and how understandable, and whether people feel that they are the <br />appropriate entity to be voting on it. So that if you have something simple, if you have <br />something say about the Community Development Plan (CDP) or something about <br />transparency, I can assure you they're going to understand it and they're going to vote on it. <br />If you have something about the auditor, and what is in a contract, and something technical <br />that is, as far as I'm concerned, you should just be telling them you guys work it out, and we <br />want to know that you've done that. That's the way it should be done. But, it's not a matter <br />of okay, what can we necessarily cut out of being reviewed. I want to again, bring up the <br />CDP. It's not inapplicable; Section 3 -15 of the Charter talks about the General Plan, and if <br />you read the General Plan, it is the CDP's that implement it. There is clearly a whole - - -The <br />whole CDP's came about following a lawsuit concerning access by large landowners in order <br />to get more community input. The other thing I think is really important for you to think <br />about in terms of the CDP's and recognizing them is that there is no local government in this <br />county. It is very expensive to drive and the CDP's in a sense provide, what little there is, <br />between a community association and a subdivision all the way up to the county government. <br />I'm the co -chair of the Waimea Design Review Committee, and we are now having groups <br />come, can we just talk to you, so we can have some community dialogue; because there is <br />nothing, there is nothing there, all the way up to the County level. As many people have <br />said, it would sort of provide a regional layer. I consider the answer to your question, why is <br />all these things going on, is there is a lot of fear. There has been power held by a few, and <br />the more you concentrate it and solidify it, it's like do we really want the people who are here <br />discussing things. I really believe that it's the idea of like the Mayor throwing out the 39 <br />applications, and we have to start again. I would have said, we want all 39, we want <br />everyone there, and you'll be head of a focus group, and we want this dialogue and we need <br />inclusivity and to just sort of get through those fears. <br />3 <br />