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Murashige, Laura
From: Weddings A La Heart [weddingsalaheart@hawaii.rr.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 11:03 AM
To: cohmayor@co.hawaii.hi.us; Holschuh, Fred; Ikeda, Donald; Arakaki, James; Higa, Stacy; Safarik,
Gary; Jacobson, Bob; Hoffmann, Pete; Pilago, K. Angel; Isbell, Virginia;
counciltestimony@co.hawaii.hi.us
Subject: Open Space and Natural Respurces Ordinance: Put On Ballot An Amendment To Set aside 2%
Property taxes
DEAR MAYOR KIM AND HAWAII COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBERS:
I am writing to ask that the evident and spoken will of the people please be honored by putting the
following question on the ballot. Really so incredibly simple. Then we let Hawaii County Voters decide for
themselves in November, whether or not to modify the existing Open Space and Natural Resources
Ordinance by making the following changes:
1)To set aside 2% of the property tax each and every year for Open Space and Natural resource
acquisition.
2) to eliminate the limit of $5 million that can be held in the fund.
Over 9,000 people have signed the Petition asking just that.
A lot of effort, time, concerned action, caring, determination and commitment have gone into sustaining
this strong request through conflicting and changing Instructions from the County as to the timelines
and through the stringent application of arbitrary and ambiguous criteria that the County has imposed on
this process. Citizens have been frustrated but have continued with the bigger picture and higher goal in
mind.
I join thousands of others in asking the County to include signatures of voters that:
1- forgot to write their street. avenue. or highway suffix as part of their residence addresses
2- forgot to put the year 2006 in the date column.
Both of these criteria are clearly implied.
We believe that the County should be using petition information to qualify signatures, not looking for
insignificant reasons to disqualify voter's signatures, which is clearly the impression that has been given
by the County.
Please put the question on the November 2006 Ballot nowt
Let us be together in caring for our growth, prosperity and malama-ing of our people, our land and
our County.
Sincerely,
Name: Libby Kelson-Fulcher
Address: 73-4349 Kalia Place
Kailua-Kona Hawaii 96740 0
Date: July 6, 2006 i}
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With Warmest Aloha
Rev Libby Kelson-Fulcher, DD. rn
Weddings A La Heart
www.weddingsalaheart.com
weddingsataheart@hawai'i.rr.com
P.O. Box 4965 n
Kailua--Kona HI 96745 '
(808) 322-3322 Tel Comm. No
(866) 321-3321 Toll-Free USA Only Ref. To:
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