HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0965.025 2004-2006
Murashige, Laura
From: Charles Fleming [kahuna00@hawaiiantel.net]
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 4:26 PM
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 resource ordinance
Mayor Kim and Council Members,
I don't usually favor any predetermined limitations on budgetary
discretion. I consider the County budget a management tool and would
normally oppose any attempt to limit the County's discretion in
budgetary decisions. However in the case of the setting aside of a
specific percent of the budget for the purchase of important historic
or specific open spaces, I would urge the submission of a ballot item c
to the voters to allow them to decide whether such an ordinance is
necessary. c. ; The reason is simple. Those places, which are unique to the essesence
of these islands, are fast being destroyed in the name of commerce or
restricted to the use of the wealthy few as opposed to the general
citizenry. s
Not only does this process result in the despoiling of sacred lands
and irreplaceable natural resources, it goes against all that is
Hawaiian in tradition, e.g. the protection of the aina and the
husbanding of it for future generations.
Once these places are gone, they are gone forever.
I therefore respectfully request that the Council vote to place the
question on the November ballot.
Mahalo,
Chuck Fleming
75-310 W. Kakalina Pl.
Kailua-Kona, HI 96740
Tel, Number 326-4708
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