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to many and I 'm sure you have, too, to live in the Kawaihae Village andwso they went begging, those village homes. In the Kona area there isn ' t that much choice and I think what you should have is a buy back clause. If you are selling a house for employee housing or you are renting-- Kona Inn used to have its own :employee housing, by the way, and they rented it out--they recently tore it down, either that or it was going to fall down--but if you are using it for employee housing then it stays within that framework and it is not sold for profit. It is either sold back or the lease goes back to the owner who would be some corporation. Either the hotel having itsown or a corporation set aside separate. MR. SCHUTTE : First of all , you felt that there should be a difference between the resort type of develop- ment tax-wise and a homeowner situation. The homeowner does contribute his portion of taxes to the county but then again the development does the same thing only in greater numbers. Not only in property taxes but in other taxes that are hidden in their contribution to the state and the county. I think they pay their proportionate share for the income or the dollars that they intend to make. If you recall back to another example. A number of years back the Lalamilo lands were set up_ for_the__. farmers in Waimea. State lands and the idea of this was to expand the agricultural base. - There were forty acre parcels set up; thirty acre parcels were all put out. Drawings were made. Various farmers that had lands in Waimea took advantage of this and took these additional lands in Lalamilo They turned around and they sold in some cases their very productive Waimea lands for a rocky area in Lalam,i_lo.. The state got together with them and they formed their own rules and regulations relative to what this land could be used for; the length of time that it was to be kept agriculture; just exactly what they as owners could do and could not do. After a number of years went by and I would say, not even ten years, a number of these farmers wanted to subdivide these parcels and they were very disturbed because they were not allowed to subdivide these parcels. They came up with the same thing,--well , you know, their children don ' t want to farm. As a result, they wanted to be able to give each child a portion of this land. So here is another case where lands were set aside specifically and where you had the owners who drew up their own rules and regulations which they, themselves, could not live by as time went on. This was not even over. a period of ten years,-this was under a period of ten years. So with all of these complexities it is not that simple to come up and MS. ISBELL: I told you, I wasn ' t the expert. I only know that we are requesting that the assessed value not increased to thepoint we can ' t afford to paythem. be i s - 17 -