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Next, we would like to call on Mr. Jim Dahlberg. Mr. Dahlberg. . . MR. DAHLBERG: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Members of the commission and fellow citizens and residents of Ka' u. I 'd like to apologize first for my dress. We have had some heavy rains up in the Wood Valley area and our cattle like to eat that good C. Brewer cane. Our fence was washed out in one area and we had to fix that this afternoon. My _name is Jim Dahlberg. My residence is in Keauhou, Ka'u. I don ' t represent any organization this evening, just myself as a resident of the Ka'u district. First of all , I would like to thank you for coming to Ka'u. I hope that in the coming months, up until the special election , should you decide on the special election, you will come more' tonot only to this district but to all districts on the BigIsland. Possibly holding meetings in the areas of Pahala and also Hawaiian Ocean View, the three precincts we have in the Ka'u district. I am somewhat concerned with the number of citizens or residents of Ka' u that are in attendance tonight. We had a very educational session on the charter one week ago tonight and we had about four times as many people. By the discussion that took place, and the fact that it was the talk of the town the next day was encouraging to me because I thought that we would have more people here tonight to take positions such as Dale Anderson has taken. He was one of those in attendance at the meeting last week. This really concerns me because I feel that the charter, as you probably do, is the most important document that we have on the county level . You have all been given some proposed amendments, all of which I feel are worthy of seriously considering but I hopedt:that the public would be educated on them so that they can take a position on the various amendments and thus give you a good feeling for how the grass roots feels about these proposed amendments. I would like to, for the record, make it clear that the comments given by Steve Yamashiro to you at one of your sessions in the councilroom were possibly his and others on the council but I was never made aware of them. And at this time I do not want to concur with any or all parts of his testimony. And there have been a number of comments by my colleagues to the same effect that we feel he testified on behalf of himself. As I said earlier, I would really like to emphasize the need for as many public hearings as, you can afford within the time frame that you will be working., I , as an elected official , would not like to take a stand on any of the amendments until at least one go-around as it were of the island with regard to those amendments that have come before you from the various individuals and/or groups that you have heard thus far. - 9