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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -7 January 25, 2019 JAERICK MEDEIROS -GARCIA: Proposal No. CA -7 and CA -13 in opposition and Proposal No. CA -9 in support. MR. MEDEIROS-GARCIA: Aloha my name is Jaerick Medeiros-Garcia and I am from Pepeekeo Shoreline Fishing Association. I am here in support of CA -9 which I am opposed to CA -7 and CA -13. I think it is important that we keep this fund going. This is actually the last chance that we have of keeping Hawai`i paradise. Without this we not going to be able to get this land that our local people can fish, you know, shoreline fish and a lot of places we have lost that option already, so I am here opposing seven and 13 on this stuff. The Senator spoke and took everything out of my mouth, but yeah, I oppose CA -7 and CA -13 and I support CA -9. Thank you for your time. CHR. ADAMS: Thank you. And then I believe we have our eighth speaker from Hilo. If 1 could have our first two speakers from Kona please come to the table and that would be Brenda Ford and Deborah Ward please. Thank you. So Hilo go ahead. MS. GOODENOW: Excuse me Mr. Chair, we actually have a total of nine speakers. CHR. ADAMS: I understand. I understand we have nine. We will get to our ninth down the road. Thank you. So, but we have our eight, speaker number eight. Thank you. GEOFF SHAW: Hello my name is Geoff Shaw and pretty much like almost everybody here supporting County, CA -9 and opposed to CA -7 and CA -13. It seems like the initiative process hasn't been respected by the government officials that are supposed to be executing them and that has to stop. I mean is there anything more democratic than the initiative process? You know, the people directly vote on a specific thing and it should be a no brainer that once the people vote and make it clear that this is something they want, just execute it. You know, it is... I don't know what the problem is, why the governrnent feels like they need to undermine the will of the people. I mean aren't you supposed to be serving the people? Is that not what your intent is? I don't know who you are serving but if you are trying to undermine a thing that people have voted on three different times then you are not serving their interests and I guess it is as simple as that. Just start serving the people's interest when we vote on something you know, especially over 60 percent. I mean how many things do 60 percent of the people agree on? Just administer it and make it work and creating a position for somebody to administer it would be a good start. Thank you. CHR. ADAMS: Thank you. We will go here to Kona and we will start with Ms. Ford. Page 9