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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -8 February 8, 2019
<br />the ag (agricultural) exemption for non -fanners, people that do not really have a
<br />faun, that would bring in I am sure at least 20 million dollars, Credit Unions act
<br />like non -profits, the, if you were to audit the house or homes, you would find that
<br />there is a much larger footprint than is usually there. And one of the issues is
<br />always stealing and the Department of Finance is that they are to minimize
<br />expenditures, but often times and this is Section 6. Or Chapter 6, is that you need
<br />to spend money to make money and so when I was proposing "let's do some
<br />things that would do some audit or that" it was "well, that is not our mandate".
<br />So, just in terns of overall, I feel you know maybe you have an ad hoc committee
<br />brainstorming, I even put in something what it would look like if we did, if we
<br />really needed money to do low stakes bingo. You know, there's a lot of things we
<br />can do. I also think the other issue besides open space is agriculture is us and I
<br />have often felt we really need more leadership there and it would end up
<br />benefiting. I put in an amendment to add that department. I did write up a
<br />number of issues. I am just going to comment on the other things I didn't so in
<br />case they don't come across, I don't have time.
<br />Communication 12.3 Protocols, Public Hearings, I really feel that more education
<br />to the public. This is their document and how, why it's meaningful to there. This
<br />is what decides power and I think as with open space, this is where they spoke.
<br />This is —you are that forum. In terms of the four-year versus two-year council
<br />terns, I agree with the four-year, however, one has to have a really strong recall
<br />provision in order... you're never going to sell that unless you can remove
<br />someone that is not doing their job. If there is a way to do that, it is much better
<br />to have it where you are not having Council members spend their first year getting
<br />on the ropes and their second year running for re-election, or if you don't and do
<br />things like I did, you look at all the bills I put in the bills, you don't get reelected
<br />because everybody is focused, that is where the focus is. But I realize that cannot
<br />work unless there is the discipline and ability to recall so I think just... I am going
<br />to go over just a few of the things that I had in that longer sheet, if anybody has
<br />any questions I am always happy to add and in terms of Section 3.15, General
<br />Plan, that should really be, the wording I added in there "community
<br />environmental health", this is where we are all talking now and that we provide
<br />for basically public trust to bring this provision general trust in line with the
<br />Charter Section 13-29.
<br />In terns of redistricting, I think that the redistricting you should hold the public
<br />hearings one on each side, but then when you have the drafts, go to the nine
<br />Councils where people have something to talk off of. Anyway, you can read
<br />some of those others. Again, this is Chapter 16, Department of Finance, I feel
<br />there has to be more long-term thinking and stop all of this short-term "how do
<br />we save money right here", it has to be looking at funds and expenditures on a
<br />long -tern basis and provide the Department of Finance a provision that allows
<br />them to do that, such as saying... I put, well, balancing you know, keep
<br />expenditures at the lowest amount, but while balancing the objective, against the
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