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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -8 February 8, 2019 MR. HOPKINS: Just a clarification please. There was another amendment and I am not sure, did it disappear or not, at the top of page 55, because is that one still in there? CHR. ADAMS: It is. That was voted on and we still have that. It's... for the purposes of the correct naming of this Charter Amendment, I believe we are actually at CA -7, Draft 3, but we have not, that draft is not available to us at the moment, and that includes the amendment that you made and was passed last meeting. MR. HOPKINS: So that is what... we are voting on the whole package now? CHR. ADAMS: No, the vote here is on Commissioner- Todd's amendment to have it be a two percent of the certified real property taxes into the PONC fund and the .75%, or the .25% into the maintenance fund, and removing the paragraph that is currently in Section (a) of the Charter Amendment 7. MR. HOPKINS: Thank you for the clarification. CHR. ADAMS: Okay. Any other comments? Commissioner Galimba. MS. GALIMBA: So basically I am just saying that I agree with Commissioner Rice. I would be voting on the amendment but I feel that it is, it wasn't the intent of the original, of CA -7. So I think it is better to, in sort of recognizing that intent, I would vote against the CA -7. CHR. ADAMS: Thank you. Any other comments or discussion? Alright, let's vote on the arnendrnent. Do I need to go through the amendment again? Do we understand what we are voting on here when we are voting on... Okay, so I am going to summarize the amendment as opposed to reading it exactly. But the arnendrnent is amending Charter Amendment No. 7, Draft 2, since we don't have three in front of us, but we understand that Charter Amendment No. 7 has been amended with Commissioner Hopkin's amendment last meeting. The amendment that we are voting on amends the first paragraph in section (a) to require a minimum, or what it says is that the, the heck with it, what it says is that in adopting each fiscal year's budget and capital program, the council shall appropriate a minimum of two percent of certified real property tax revenues. It then takes out the .75% of which shall be deposited into a fund known as the Public Access, Open Space and Natural Resources Preservation Fund, and instead adds the following: which shall be deposited in a fund knows as the PONC preservation fund and an additional .25% shall be deposited into a fund called the PONC maintenance fund. So that is what we are voting on. Two percent for the preservation fund, .25% for the maintenance fund, and removing Page 33