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From: Howard k. GOnan[ [howartl~konai aiurw eatoofiee.comi
Seat: Monday. Ncd_mber Oi, zo45 3:41 PM
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Aguiiar'.'Roger Ditts'~, '3.~o and Beryl Foerster;'Big Island Farm eureeu (bitbwerizon.nat)"Jean
and Ge,xge °ike'
Subfect: Ag Te i°+sm 2il! 148
Aloha made.
1 ht nks for telkms to me today ant ~~ntlersta nding my concerns about Sill 148
I ar+ de:ighted tha+ an Ag Tourism k~ii; is being considered by the Council, It is very needed by farmers io allow
t`tei r to marry lhei- agric:~ftural ope+auons to our israntl'S blggesr Industry, lowisu+.
"he grey copy aft Eii~ ' have seFC ~s a draft, actually two drafts, but not any final version which may now exist. i
test 1 ed in front of ;ne ?lenning Car,mis:dn at the King Kam hotel some time ago, when they voted to send it to
tae amncii withou~ a recomtnendaticn. I have searched the County wabsite but was unable to locate the Bill.
- he lone Coffee .adustr~ is :c the r;dst of the biggest harvest in perhaps fifteen years. At my farm with 5 1/2
:aces of bearing coffee. '."e harvested more than 100 bags in 8 days ending yesterday. We are still harvesting and
processing, i urth<-:, tt+is week is n+,+ ~odee Festival Week, and mos± of us coffee farmers are partrapanng in
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1 ae despera¢e~.y want `c -rar6apate .n the nearing process for Bil! ' 48 but have not had the opportunity to read
the Etill and are unable to dove to F+,io this week_
I do ~~d +ou ple:asa ple,ic' with ;+,nge ,'ete and [he other committee members and ask for a slight postponement
so •naY we may p:: Nicipe~^ in Che pr:r?65s"
IAen alt r,u+;c2,
Howarr Conant
P.:.~~. I ask all reaxarents of this to please contact committee co-chairs Angel Pilago and Pete Hoffman to request a
H,osWOn2ment
,,angel P+lago
. att!,ntlon Karen
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