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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -7 January 25, 2019 STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC ON AGENDA ITEMS: SHANNON MATSON: MR. HENRICKS: Mr. Bergin (here), Ms. Galimba (here), Mr. Hamann (here), Mr. Hopkins (here), Ms. Leithead-Todd (present), Ms. Rice (present), Mr. Roehrig (here), Ms. Saquing (here), Ms. Springer (here), Ms. Zelko-Schlueter (here), Chair Adams (here). Chair Adams, you have 11 members in attendance. The Chair directed the Commission to proceed to the next order of business, Statements from the Public on Agenda Items. CHR. ADAMS: Thank you very much Mr. Henricks. I am just looking, okay, at this point I would make a couple of comments. One is for Commissioners, when we get to the part where we are having our discussion, if you could do something like raise your hand or something because I am not able to look at your... these don't have the lights right, so for me to be able to understand who would like to speak, let me know okay. At this time we will entertain statements from the public. Again, I would ask those who are speaking before the Commission, to please provide your name when you get to the table, and the agenda item that you are speaking on if it is more than one, so let me say it this way, if it is two or more, we will be limiting the time to six minutes max okay, so that way everybody has a fair shot at being able to speak. Without objection? Okay. I understand that we have in Hilo eight and we have at least 18 here in Kona. So, let's start with Hilo and then we will get to our friends here in Kona. MS. GOODENOW: Yes, good evening Mr. Chair. Our first two testifiers are Shannon Matson, she is speaking on a total of four items, and she is to be followed by Cory Harden who is speaking on a total of three items. CHR. ADAMS: Okay, please identify the agenda items. That would be much appreciated. Proposal No. CA -7, CA -8, and CA -13 in opposition and Proposal No. CA -9 in support. MS. MATSON: Okay, hi, this is Shannon Matson. I am speaking on behalf of myself, but I am also the Vice -Chair for the East Hawai`i County Democrats. I am speaking first on 21.55 about CA -7 and I am in opposition to this. I believe that we need to keep the Public Access, Open Space, Natural Resources Preservation Fund as it was designated based on the vote by the people. So I don't think that there should be any amendments or changes to that at this time. The next item I am speaking on is, and some of these are overlapping, so I am just going to go down all of them and say which ones I am here in opposition of or support and then tell you a little bit more. So the next one is CA -8 and that is changing the terms of Council Members from four consecutive two-year terms to two consecutive four-year terns. I am also in opposition to that. Page 2