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Hawaii County Charter Commission -7 January 25, 2019 SAMMIE STANBRO: Mayor's discretion without the input of the Council or the voters. And so, we wholeheartedly and vehemently oppose any effort to make this fund depletable at the discretion or whim of the Mayor, and with that I will close because I know you have several other speakers. Thank you very much. CHR. ADAMS: Thank you. If I could ask in Kona to have Mr. Sensenig, I have got that screwed up I am sure, please come and also Topher Dean. Thank you. At this time I would like to go back to Hilo to our speaker that we have in Hilo please. Proposal No. CA -7, CA -9, and CA -13, commenting. MS. STANBRO: My name is Sammie Stanbro. Thank you all for all of the hard work that you do obviously. I can't believe that you can listen to the testimony today and not vote in favor of the two percent. I think there have been very good arguments and statements made. Mr. Ruderinan really hit the nail on the head though. It is that the people have spoken and how this small board that the Mayor has picked out can overturn the thousands and thousands of people spent the long, hard time voting for, and doing, I just don't understand. It is just not very democratic. I definitely am in support of nine. We probably should have done that in the first place so we wouldn't be in this position. Seven is a no go at all. We need to strengthen this and not... I am totally against seven. On 13, Bobby Jean, the whole idea of you know, we are very giving, loving people, if there is an emergency we want to step up. It is not that there is any hard feelings or anything but I think the points that Ms. Ford brought up is very, very clear but also I think that this is extremely vague and for the person that authored this, it is much more vague than she usually says. What I am wondering is how much? All? How much is taken? Is it going to be repaid? And I have watched things happen in our government that weren't, the people had nothing to do with it. They are huge wastes of money and to have something that has been voted on by all the people on this island and was stated earlier, the other islands are in envy of us. I mean it is not like we should lower ourselves to the common low spot that they have been stuck with and would love to be without and they would like to be higher like us and instead of us lowering ourselves because "oh well, they don't... theirs is less, so ours should be less", and the reason why it was two percent is because we are such a big island that also we have things that our Mayors put in to being that the public knows nothing about. We have a big sports field that was built on a wetland that cost millions and millions of dollars that was done without anyone's input, the public's input. That money was spent and this sports field can't be used to this day and yet all this money was spent and yet we are looking at something that all the people have voted on this open space we have put into place and yet the Mayor is questioning it. Whereas the Mayor you know, spent money on a lot of things that we weren't aware of and I care for Mayor Kim but when he says that the County has money Page 13