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From: Diga Kern <23.diga@gmail.com> <br />Sent: Thursday, March 7, 2019 6:19 PM <br />To: Charter Commission <br />Subject: NO on Comm. CA -27 <br />Aloha, <br />In regards to this great referendum -based PONC law, I feel that it is unnecessary for amendments emphasizing <br />acquisition of easements and legitimizing eminent domain to be enacted. <br />The main reason I oppose these amendments is that it may be more difficult to find private matching funds for <br />purchases by a government entity armed with eminent domain. You have already heard, or are going to hear, testimony <br />from the Trust for Public Lands to this effect. Matching funds are the magic of PONC, any amendment (like the ill- <br />advised recent attempt to remove "in perpetuity" language) endangering the likelihood of private funding partners <br />should be anathema to lawmakers! <br />As a member of the public, and a person sincerely interested and involved in restoration forestry work, I think that the <br />spirit of this law is for the County to non-adversarially acquire properties identified by community groups as relatively <br />available for purchase and protection. Any property that is not able to be acquired through honest negotiation and <br />maintaining a win-win attitude, is probably one that the owners have substantial private property -based attachments to. <br />Sincerely, <br />Geoffrey (Diga) Kern <br />1 <br />Comm. No. 44.7 <br />