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A RESOLUTION TO AWARD A PUBLIC ACCESS, OPEN SPACE, AND NATURAL RESOURCES PRESERVATION MAINTENANCE FUND STEWARDSHIP GRANT TO FRIENDS OF AMY B.H. GREENWELL ETHNOBOTANICAL GARDEN.
WHEREAS, Section 10-16 of the Hawai‘i County Charter establishes a Public Access, Open Space, and Natural Resources Preservation Maintenance Fund (hereinafter “Maintenance Fund”) “to
preserve the land, promote public safety, and maintain a healthy stewardship”; and
WHEREAS, Section 10-16(h) of the Hawai‘i County Charter provides that the Maintenance Fund may be used for a stewardship grant program for properties purchased via the Public Access,
Open Space, and Natural Resources Preservation Fund, which allows 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations to apply for grant-in-aid project funding for stewardship projects; and
WHEREAS, Friends of the Amy B. H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to support Hawaiian cultural traditions of land use and plants
and conserving the plant resources of traditional Hawaiian cultural activities as well as to ensure the continuance of this national treasure as an ethnobotanical garden; and
WHEREAS, Friends of Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden submitted a Maintenance Fund stewardship grant application to continue providing land stewardship and cultural education
for the properties, which is situated in Kealakekua, District of South Kona (TMK: (3) 8 2-013:002, 003, 014; 014:043 and 015:059), and acquired via the Public Access, Open Space, and
Natural Resources Preservation Fund after adoption of Resolution No. 155-19; and
WHEREAS, during its September 12, 2022, meeting and pursuant to section 2-217 of the Hawai‘i County Code 1983 (2016 Edition, as amended), the Public Access, Open Space, and Natural Resources
Preservation Commission forwarded a positive recommendation for this project to the Director of Finance; and
WHEREAS, Communication No. 1077, issued by the Director of Finance on October 14, 2022, submitted for the Council’s consideration nine applicants for stewardship grants for various properties
that have been acquired by the County using the Public Access, Open Space, and Natural Resources Preservation Fund; and
WHEREAS, the Director of Finance in Communication No. 1077 recommends that Friends of Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden will be able to complete its project in accordance with
the project description submitted and in strict adherence to the conditions governing the Public Access, Open Space, and Natural Resources Preservation Maintenance Fund; and
WHEREAS, the Council finds that awarding a stewardship grant to Friends of Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden will allow it to continue its ongoing plant preservation, restoration,
mapping and maintenance as well as restoration and improvements of various buildings, continue the ongoing conversion of the Greenwell’s former home to an education and caretaker’s
facility, tenting of all facilities for termites, contracting cleaning services; and
WHEREAS, the Council further finds that awarding a stewardship grant to Friends of Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden will benefit the community-at-large by demonstrating that
maintenance fund monies can be utilized to preserve the land, promote public safety, and maintain a healthy stewardship of those properties that have been acquired using Public Access,
Open Space, and Natural Resources Preservation funding; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I, that pursuant to Section 10-16(h) of the Hawai‘i County Charter, a Maintenance Fund stewardship grant shall be awarded to Friends
of Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden in the amount of $95,380.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that, pursuant to Section 10-16(g) of the Hawai‘i County Charter, funds from the stewardship grant awarded by this resolution shall be used for public safety maintenance
and preservation of the Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden properties acquired through the Public Access, Open Space, and Natural Resources Preservation Fund, identified as tax
map keys (3) 8-2-013:002, 003, 014; 014:43; and 015:059.
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the County Clerk shall transmit a copy of this resolution to the Director of Finance.
Dated at _____________, Hawai‘i, this ______ day of ___________________, 20___.
INTRODUCED BY:
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COUNCIL MEMBER, COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I
COUNTY COUNCIL
County of Hawai‘i
Hilo, Hawai‘i
ROLL CALL VOTE
AYES
NOES
ABS
EX
CHUNG
DAVID
I hereby certify that the foregoing RESOLUTION was by
the vote indicated to the right hereof adopted by the COUNCIL of the
County of Hawai‘i on _____________________________________.
INABA
KĀNEALI‘I-KLEINFELDER
KIERKIEWICZ
KIMBALL
ATTEST:
LEE LOY
RICHARDS
VILLEGAS
Reference:
COUNTY CLERK CHAIRPERSON & PRESIDING OFFICER
RESOLUTION NO.