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

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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -5 November 9, 2018 MS. MURAMOTO: You have thirty seconds. MS. MAHI-HANAI: Okay, so basically that is just what I wanted to say and also that the Fire Commission authority to discipline the Fire Chief, I believe his job would also be easier with the elimination of the Puna Geothermal Venture because they, PGV has not provided the chemicals that they are putting down into the wells which they are supposed to provide to the Fire Chief. So I believe that they would have less call to have to discipline the Fire Chief but they should be able to if they need to. And then I wanted to go ahead and speak about PONC. And I have several items about PONC, lets see, basically about four of them, but if I could sort of lump them all together, maybe about nine minutes perhaps? CHR. ADAMS: Ma'am, okay we have tried to be very careful with all of the other testifiers, so if you could please identify the agenda item you are speaking to, that gives respect to the others that have done the same thing. Alright, so we are not pushing anything together. We are identifying the agenda item and we are speaking to that agenda item please. MS. MAHI-HANAI: Yes, okay. That's fine. Alright, lets see, I will start off with Communication No. 7-6. And that I also wanted to support what the Sierra Club and others were saying that basically, what is the two percent fund if you are going to allow the covenant to be broken with the people and the intent of saving the land from development and that I believe that the two percent fund—I worked under County Councilman Bob Jacobsen and there are some serious issues there. Excuse me, so, one of the things so far as looking at 7-6, there is no policy here for giving a key to the land lock?? Kuleana's or Royal Plat and Parcels or a key for the native tenants to the lock gate and I needed to also state that there is significant problems with people with disabilities or kupunas and whatnot. When there is no key or pretty much no announcement on the gate of how to get the key or how to arrange for the key, and so, along with the list of the properties that could be purchased by the Department of Finance, one of the things I have felt is that there is always a lack of money, is to look at memorandum of agreement or a memorandum of understanding for a non -purchase agreement. And so, these types of things that I am speaking to would have to take a change with the Charter. So that's why I am here today. And that also one of the reasons, let's look at our worst case scenario, Kawa`a, is that it was a beautiful place, it had beautiful native tenant gardens, gourds hanging from the tree, I was under Dr. Peter Mills at the time when I was first introduced to Kawa`a, around that the people there were doing a really good job but that I needed to look more according to what Bob Jacobsen wanted, okay, so what are the native rights there? Are these people actually heirs and... Page 13