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Hawaii County Charter Commission -5 November 9, 2018 MS. MURAMOTO: You have thirty seconds. MS. MAHI-HANAI: Okay. Under (inaudible) 993 and 1530, and so, I feel that the PONC needs to have an ad hoc committee on issues like the key and native tenant issues and especially because native tenant rights are ordered, ah, court ordered and okay so, I will go on to the next one. Alright so this is Exhibit B, Communication No. 3.1.1, one of the most outstanding things that I am seeing here is that with respect to parcels, you are looking at around 4,450 some odd acres and there is a problem here because according to Kingdom law, which I am sure our friend Dwight here knows about, is that the native tenants actually have a third percent in these properties and there is nothing in our PONC Charter that actually recognizes that fact and so far it has cost upward of $30,000 and a police brutality case at Kawa`a removing Hawaiians and native tenants. Unfortunately for the County, someone had a camera around their neck when they were being abused. So, I have paper work here from when I was going to give a (inaudible) talk to the PONC Commission about native tenants and native tenant rights. The problem was when I went into the room, only one person even knew what a native tenant was. Then I also have this note here from the Department of Finance: Shelly, attached is the last meeting agenda for PONC with the information for our next meeting. We don't have a policy on native tenants in Open Spaces. Please call me etc. for any questions. So my big question is, inside of all of these acreages, you have a third percent owned in interest by native tenants and we still have no policy on native tenants and that it actually amounts to constitutional rights violations, cultural issues, Act No. 50, should go on. I don't have them all in front of me. And I do know for a fact so far as the issue of our purchasing property that is technically not for sale because that is where the memorandum of agreement or understanding could help a lot in that... MS. MURAMOTO: You have thirty seconds. MS. MAHI-HANAI: Okay. So, inside a conversation with the Coiporation Counsel they had told me no we have title free and clear and that basically that the reason the houses were torn down was because it is against agricultural laws. Well actually none of that is true in that there was coercion in the courts, collusion, etc. which was one of the reasons why the United Nations Human Rights Department did have to address this issue through the judicial system of the State of Hawaii. I am sorry. I have to look at the other sheet that I was looking at. Oh, here it is. Okay, and under New Business, I did want to go ahead and put this in there under C., Department of Parks and Recreation, and along with the PONC, that I would be more than happy to see that places like Kawa`a Page 14