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Richard Liebmann [richardliebmann@gmail.com)
Saturday, September 05, 2009 7:32 PM
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Subject: Sale of county owned lands
Honorable Mayor Billy Kanoe
Distinguished members of the county council
RE: Sale of county owned lands
I am a member of the steering committee of Sustainable Kohala, an organization with two hundred members.
We are very active in supporting responsible development of truck farming homesteads in Kohala and
throughout the island.
We are alarmed and very concerned at the rumors that the county government is engaging in "secret"
negotiations with large land buyers who are interested in getting big bargains on prime agricultural land on the
Hamakua coast.
We respectfully request that each and every one of you elected officials disavow any secret land
negotiations/deals and call for open public meetings on any plans or proposals being considered
regarding publicly owned lands.
Lastly, it certainly does not make any sense to invite the various communities on the Island to participate in
growing a vision and design of our future, if large tracts of available land are sold off to giant factory farming
corporations who probably remain intent on continuing their destruction of the aina with chemicals and
poisons. As for the rumor that Mansanto Corporation is one of the candidates for the Hamakua land, I can
think of no other corporation in the world that has a worse reputation among the growing army of organic
farmers on this island.
Yours sincerely,
Dr. richard liebmann
9/10/2009
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