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From: Terri Lounder Mulroy <terri.mulroy@gmail.com> <br />Sent: Friday, January 25, 2019 11:29 AM <br />To: Charter Commission <br />Subject: "NO on CA -13 and CA -7" <br />Aloha, <br />This message is to urge the council AGAINST the passage of CA -13 which would make the Open Spaces fund available to <br />the Mayor's discretion. <br />The will of the people on this matter has been repeatedly strong (65%), and this is because the people understand that <br />preservation of our wild lands and precious scenic parcels is IMMEDIATELY in the best interest of Hawaii for the LONG <br />TERM. <br />My friend comes from Rhodes, Greece, which also relies on the visitor industry. Because of the lack of such local <br />controls as a 2% land fund, all of the beautiful parts of the coastline and the island have been laid bare to tourism <br />development, and ugly, at that. Rhodes is no longer a choice destination, because of its natural beauty having been <br />gutted. <br />Eventually, the visitor industry will fade due to prohibitive costs of travel. Do we want to be left with an island with its <br />glorious natural resources preserved? These resources are unquantifiable, and it is our job to bequeath them to the <br />keiki. We don't want our land fund raided and then paid back into, despite the recent disaster -related expenses. Please <br />put your best resourcefulness towards finding another way to meet these expenses, and focus on setting aside more <br />money for disasters in the future. Please, don't take away from our 2% fund, and keep it at 2%! <br />Sincerely, <br />Therese Mulroy <br />1 <br />Comm. No. 21.93 <br />