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From: Doug Perrine <perrine@hawaii.rr.com> <br />Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2018 1:37 PM <br />To: Charter Commission <br />Subject: Leave the 2% land fund (PONC fund) alone! <br />Dear Commission members: <br />We, the citizens of Hawaii County, have voted now 3 times to overwhelmingly approve 2% of our property taxes to be <br />used to purchase precious, sacred, and scenic properties to preserve them in perpetuity. Mayor Kim continues on his <br />mission to raid this fund and use it for every day county business. He has forgotten his most important mission: Malama <br />Aina. This spectacular land, of which we are the caretakers, is like no other on earth. It will be here long after all of us <br />have passed and future generations have occupied the soil. Will Hawaii still be a special and sacred place? Or just <br />another patch of strip malls, motels, and fast food joints like any part of the mainland? I understand that on Nov. 9 you <br />will be meeting to consider various ways to cap the PONC fund, and re -direct the money to the general fund where the <br />Mayor can spend it as he wishes. Additionally, it seems that the Mayor is delaying us of the fund to purchase the <br />properties on the list, and has allowed over $19million to accumulate, possibly in hopes of quickly exceeding any cap to <br />instituted by the Charter Commission. <br />Please respect the will of the citizens and leave the fund as it is - in the form that we have mandated through our <br />electoral voice. To improve the efficiency of the fund, please ask Mayor Kim why his administration has not used the <br />fund to obtain matching funds for land protection, and why he has allowed such an accumulation of unspent funds, <br />rather than using these funds for the purpose mandated by the voters. <br />mahalo nui loa, <br />Dou Perrine <br />please do not send any attachments larger than 1 MB without advance permission <br />if our e-mail doesn't o through, <br />1 <br />Comm. No. 3.1.14 <br />