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Murashige, Laura
From: David Kawika [bigdsblues@hawaii.rr.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 9:30 AM
To: Pilago, K. Angel
Cc: Isbell, Virginia; Higa, Stacy; Safarik, Gary; Holschuh, Fred; Hoffmann, Pete
Subject: UH West Hawaii Campus/Palamanui Hilu Hilu Development
See attached letter.
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5/10/2006
P.O. Box 4698
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii 96740
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May 10, 2006
Mr. Angel Pilago
Hawaii County Council
Planning Committee, Chair
CC: Stacy Higa, County Council, Chairman
County persons
Virginia Isbell
Gary Safarik
Pete Hoffman
Fred Holschuh
Re: UH West Hawaii Campus/Palamanui Hilu Hilu Development
Aloha Kakou
I would like to voice my support for location of the new West Hawaii Campus in the
Palamanui/Hilu Hilu Development. My reason for this support is simple: a
committee of citizens of West Hawaii volunteered to review the needs and issues
relating to higher education opportunities, the traffic patterns and projected
community growth. As a result of their efforts, the Palamanui/Hilu Hilu was
recommended.
Over the years, I have served in a volunteer capacity on many local and state
government boards, commissions, and committees. I have personal knowledge of
the heart and effort that our citizens commit to the betterment of life in our
community. I ask you to honor the diligent and committed work of these community
volunteers. We called on our citizens to gather, to help plan a new campus, to use
their intellect and kuleana for the betterment of their community. To then ignore
that work and capriciously advocate for another location, as was done by the
Department of Hawaiian Homelands, is wrong, and should be condemned.
A COrl~9iINI7YPARTNERSHIP
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If respect and honor of the work of citizens continues to be devalued, there will
come a day when responsible, caring citizens will not come forward to help. For the
great good of the Island of Hawaii, I truly hope that day does not come.....
Respectfully,
Kawika Marquez
Executive Director