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From: Antu Harvey
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2023 8:23 AM (-R..
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To: Council Testimony c)
Subject: TESTIMONY is support of RES 64-23
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Aloha Chair Kimball and Members of the County Council,
Please pass RES 64-23* introduced by Ms Villegas.
My name is Antu Harvey. I am the Executive Director of Pulama is Kona Heritage Council (501(c)3 founded in .994 afi`tl
this project's manager.
Your support will help this project:
• Save the 1925 masonry roadside marker for the`Shikoku 88 Temples Pilgrimage'in Holualoa next to the stream
and Holualoa Elementary School,
• Preserve an extant link to the stories* of Japanese immigrants in Kona and their experiences before and after
the 1942- Executive Order 9066. There were over 30 Daishi-do and Shinto shrines in the Holualoa area before
WWII when most were demolished. Now,this is the only known surviving structure of its kind.
• Build community by bringing together new and faithful volunteers and donors to help save the monument, and
towards the end of the project, set up a management/maintenance plan to help ensure this monument
survives, is cared for and is recognized for another hundred years.
*The project includes designing and installing an interpretive sign with a QR code that links to historic mobile walking
tours on our website, Pulama.org and theClio.org(the walking tours are a separate 2023 project).
These additional funds will help ensure we can complete this Monument project on time and to the original scope and
quality planned.
Mahalo nui loa for your commitment and service to our 8 district community.
Antu Harvey, Executive Director
Pulama is Kona Heritage Council
Holualoa, HI
*TRANSFERS/APPROPRIATES AN APPROPRIATION OUT AND FROM A DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT AND CREDITS SAME
TOA DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT TO PROVIDE A GRANT TO PULAMA IA KONA HERITAGE PRESERVATION COUNCIL TO
ASSIST WITH EXPENSES FOR ITS 1925 MONUMENT PROJECT Transfers$5, 000 from the Clerk-Council Services—
Contingency Relief account Council District 7); and credits to the Department of Liquor Control, Public Programs
account. Reference: Comm. 126 Intr. by: Ms.Villegas
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