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p0Rr9 s;Id SOUTH KOHALA .r a, 40,11 WEST HAWAII COMMITTEE NORIN and SOUTH 4 A1P KONA �� POST OFFICE BOX 1761 / KAILUA-KONA, HAWAII 96740 KA'U July 2 , 1979 Mr. Kimiaki Sakata , Chairman and Membersof. Hawaii County Charter Commission County of. Hawaii 25 Aupuni Street Hilo , Hawaii 96720 Dear Mr. Sakata : This letter is to urgently request reconsideration of your "tentative" decision of June 26 to have a County Council of seven members , five directly elected from the four State Repre- sentative Districts (two from District 2) , and two elected "at large" . Our grounds for this request are as follows : Readings of the Minutes of Commission meetings available to us of the Charter Commission and its Subcommittee disclose that no consideration on its merits was given the proposal for nine directly elected Council Members presented to you first by Mrs . Virginia Isbell , representing the "Women` of Hawaii for Better Government" and subsequently expanded and endorsed by the Kona Coast Chamber of Commerce , West Hawaii Committee , Exchange Club of Kona , Kona Board of Realtors , Women of Hawaii for Better Government and Kona Business and Professional Women . This proposal was presented and discussed in the advertisement of those parties in West Hawaii Today on May 4 and May 11 , 1979. Copies of this ad were given to all members of the Commission the night of May 22 , and a copy was also transmitted with ex- planatory remards in the West Hawaii Committee letter to the Commission of May 26 , 1979 ( Comm. 63) . Instead of consideration of this proposal on its merits , it was dismissed out of hand as "a nightmare for us in terms of setting up districts" --and , again , "there is no way we can do it . We don ' t have the time , nor do we have the resource. " (These are quotes from Commissioner Omanaka , June 5 , 1979 . ) In so dismissing the " Kona Proposal " , and after these expressions there were no more discussions of that proposal , the Subcommittee COMM. NO.