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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -6 December 14, 2018 <br />by eliminating its permanent nature. The argument that the restrictive easement <br />causes formidable maintenance issues for the County is also spurious. The <br />maintenance fund is there for this purpose as our management partners associated <br />with many of the acquisitions. <br />CHR. ADAMS: If I could ask you to summarize please. <br />MR. WARSHAUER: Commissioners should visit Kawa and examine the <br />applications like that for Kahi Pali to see this and if you want to remove the <br />management burden, remove Parks and Recreation from the management. You <br />site the Maui process for their public land acquisition but I fear that you may be <br />taking it out of context. Maui supports a process capable of purchasing high cost, <br />high value wahi pana. I urge you to contact their Senator Kalani English and the <br />County Council members directly to gauge their support for the process and need <br />for base funding and snatch capability. All in all, CA -7 is a poisonous arrow <br />aimed at the heart of the people's PONC program. Instead of destroying the <br />capabilities of the PONC fund and process, you should be finding ways to <br />streamline the process to keep the money flowing in to the fund and to further <br />enable the public to step up to protect and malama even more the wahi pana that <br />means so much to us all. If some of your Charter Commission charges to find <br />ways to better balance the County's budget and thus hire more cops as in your <br />illustration, I recommend that you don't take it from the people's PONC program <br />or bemoan reduced tax base, but instead recommend increasing the property tax <br />assessment on the highest end properties used for vacation homes and resorts by <br />off island owners that can better afford the elevated assessments. <br />CHR. ADAMS: Mr. Warshauer, thank you. <br />MR. WARSHAUER: Okay, and I am now addressing the next proposal, CA - <br />CHR. ADAMS: You've already done your two, you already went through two <br />three minute periods. You did six minutes. <br />MR. WARSHAUER: Okay, I support CA -9. I support it. <br />CHR. ADAMS: Thank you. <br />MR. WARSHAUER: Thank you, for the time. <br />CHR. ADAMS: Could I ask Mr. Dwight Vicente please to come forward to the <br />table. Karen Clarkson. <br />KAREN Communication No. 21 and Communication No. 24 in opposition. <br />CLARKS ON: <br />MS. CLARKSON: Hi. I am Karen Clarkson. I live in Pa'auilo Mauka and I am <br />Page 24 <br />