MIN CHARTER 2018-11-09 (2018-2020)

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Hawaii County Charter Commission -5 November 9, 2018 acquiring the lands. I would very much like to see a change in the maintenance fund so that the whole process is operated within the Department of Finance. Using the Department of Parks and Recreation to administer it has pretty much crippled the ability of the maintenance fund to do its job. There is just not enough coordination and prioritization given. I also support Communication No. 7 related to climate change. All over the Country, municipalities and States are stepping up to where the Feds have fallen back and Hawai`i County should do everything they can to support these efforts. If you have any questions on any of it, I will be glad to answer them. CHR. ADAMS: Thank you for your testimony Sir. Our next testifier. MS. MURAMOTO: Our final testifier is Dwight Vicente. Shelley Mahi-hanai: Communications 1.9, 7.6, 3, 5, 16, 6, 3.1.1, 17, and 1.7.1, commenting. SHELLEY MAHI- HANAI: MS. MAHI-HANAI: Okay, I guess I will go ahead and begin. My name is Shelley Mahi-hanai. The first thing I wanted to speak about is the climate change issue. And I just wanted to let everybody know while these Charters are going from 2018-2020 so a Scientific American Magazine along with National Geographic, they have done articles on ocean mining and we are the closest coastal impact. We have had ongoing pretty much terrible experiments going on here in the Big Island and other islands on putting toxic waste from ocean mining into cement or fertilizer or just dumping it into the ocean. But basically the latest Scientific American Magazine did state that they are looking at hopefully approving their environmental codes and that ocean mining would begin in 2020. So this is a very serious matter and I just want to kind of throw that in the mix because without our oceans and the health of our oceans, I believe this will seriously affect climate change and especially the removal of manganese nodules, these are 80 year old, uh, 80 million year old eco systems and we actually have not determined what the true roles of the manganese nodules are. I personally have a hypothesis that it will damage the critical ionic balance of the ocean and the international seabed authority in a query that I was allowed to do through the U.N. law of the sea in New York in a series of questions, the contractors still have not come up with satisfactory answers to sustainable fisheries nor how much waste would be produced from all of these various types of mining that they want to do. You are looking at 28 or 29 permits for us in particular, we are looking at of course mining all throughout the Pacific North and South Hemispheres but for (in Page 11