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County of Hawaii-State of Hawaii
Resolution No.
WHEREAS, the Agricultural Industry is one of the major
contributors to the economy of the Island of Hawaii; and
WHEREAS, the Council of the County of Hawaii is deeply
concerned with keeping the Big Island Agricultural Industry
healthy and in step with the balance of the State for the
benefit of the people of the Island of Hawaii; and
WHEREAS, there is a profound need for the addition of
calcium and calcium carbonate to the soils of the Big Island
to assure an adequate calcium supply for the nutrition of plants
and to counteract the essentially acidic nature of Big Island
soils; and
WHEREAS, the utilization of dredged coral from the Big
Island is the most economic method of supplying calcium and
calcium carbonate to the Agricultural Industry of the Big Island;
and
WHEREAS, the Big Island has limited coral resources and
the Council of the County of Hawaii recognizes the need to
conserve and effectively utilize its precious natural resources
to assure a healthy agricultural sector in a diversified economy
for the good of all of the people of the County of Hawaii; and
WHEREAS, the County of Hawaii recognizes that demands
are being made upon the Big Island's coral resources by
developers who desire to use coral for the purpose of building
subdivision roadways; and
WHEREAS, the Big Island provides other resources such as
lava and cinder which may be used in place of coral in the
construction of roadways; and
WHEREAS, the State of Hawaii, through its Department of
Transportation, had control over the disposition of coral
stockpiled at Kawaihae, Hawaii,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY
OF HAWAII that the State Department of Transportation, Harbors
Division, be requested to preserve the coral stockpiled at
Kawaihae, Hawaii, for agricultural purposes only.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County Clerk forward copies
of this resolution to the Honorable John A. Burns, Governor of
the State of Hawaii; to the Honorable Shunichi Kimura, Mayor of
the County of Hawaii; to the Honorable Wing Kong Chong, the
Honorable Joseph R. Garcia,Jr., the Honorable Archie Hapai, the
Honorable Stanley H. Roehrig, the Honorable Jack K. Suwa, and the
Honorable Yoshito Takamine, Members of the State House of
Representatives; to the Honorable Stanley I. Hara, the
Honorable Richard Henderson, and the Honorable John T. Ushijima,
Members of the State Senate; to Mr. E. Alvey Wright, Director,
Department of Transportation; to Mr. Melvin Lepine, Chief,
Harbors Division, State Department of Transportation; and to
Mr. Dennis E. Ruthrauff, Hawaii District Manager, Harbors
Division.
Dated at Waimea , Hawaii, this '12th day of
_September , 1973.
INTRODUCED BY:
COUNCILMAN, COUNTY F HAWAII
ROLL CALL VOTE
COUNTY COUNCIL
County of Hawaii AYES NOES A/E
Hilo, Hawaii Carpenter X
De Luz X
I hereby certify that the foregoing RESOLUTION was by the vote indicated to Farias x
the right hereof adopted by the COUNCIL of the County of Hawaii on. Fujii X
Hisaoka x
September--.1.2_, .-1973------------ Kawahara x
Matayoshi x
ATTEST: Yadao X
Chr. Yamada X
Reference: C-58.3~AVIC-11
Tadashi Suzuki
Robert M. Yam a
COUNTY CLERK CHAIRMAN & PRES G OFFICER 35lg
M.B. No............!
RESOLUTION NO. 1-17