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COUNTY OF HAWAII
STATE OF HAWAII
RESOLUTION No.--16 97
APPROVING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SISTER-CITY RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN THE COUNTY OF HAWAII AND IKAHO-MACHI, JAPAN.
WHEREAS, the Mayor and the Council of the County of Hawaii
have endorsed a Sister-City Program to enhance friendship,
goodwill and understanding amongst the global communities,
especially with our neighbors in the Pacific Basin areas; and
WHEREAS, since 1987, public officials and citizens from
Ikaho-Machi, Japan have made visits to our islands annually
every November, and for the past nine years have sent ten
students to study at Waiakea Intermediate School upon an agreed
homestay program; and
WHEREAS, this unilateral and ambitious undertaking has
given impetus to the establishment of a formal bond in the form
of a sister-city association to pursue the other potentially,
mutual benefits that may evolve from a meaningful sister-city
relationship; and
WHEREAS, this resolution will be augmented with written
covenants between the mayors of both the County of Hawaii and
Ikaho-Machi, to be supported additionally with a signed service
agreement between the County of Hawaii and the Hawaii Island
Japanese Community Association,
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL of the County
of Hawaii that a Sister-City relationship be established
between the County of Hawaii and Ikaho-Machi, Japan; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that upon approval of this
resolution, that the aforementioned agreements will be duly
signed by all of the proper officials at the next appropriate
visitation,
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BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the County Clerk transmit true
copies of this resolution to the Mayor, County of Hawaii,
Stephen K. Yamashiro, Mayor, Ikaho-Machi, Minoru Ishizaka,
Japan, and Rudy Legaspi, Protocol Officer, County of Hawaii.
Dated at Hilo, Hawaii 22nd day of JanuaIy
, 1997.
Introduced by
COUNTY COUNCIL
County of Hawaii
Hilo, Hawaii
I hereby certify that tbe foregoing RESOLUTION was by tbe
vote indicated to the right bereof adopted by the COUNCIL of the
County of Hawaii on January 22, 1997 ..
ATTEST:
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COUNTY CLERK
ROLL CALL VOTE
AYES NOES ADS EX
ARAKAKI X
CHUNG X
LEITHEAD- TODD X
RAY X
REYNOLDS X
SANTANGELO X
SMITH X
TYLER -
X
YAGONG X
9 0 0 0
Reference (.;-;j;~ /l"C-13
RESOLUTION NO. --1 G
97