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TESTIMONY: IN SUPPORT OF FUNDING FOR THE HAWAII COUNTY AND r
Hawaii County Council Meeting r3 2 �1 ����.2�
May 18, 2011 MOWJ.. kIO
Hawaii County Building in Hilo 0
Dear Hawaii County Council Members:
I am writing to express my strong support for maintaining funding for the Hawaii
County Band in which a budget amendment was introduced by Councilwoman Brenda Ford in
Comm.111.22, Memorandum No. 6, dated May 9, 2011 to defend the band again. Supporters of
the band were very pleased last year when funding was placed back into the budget for the band
after an outpouring of community support, obtained through grassroots efforts, was so
profoundly demonstrated at the March 22, 2010 Hawaii County Council meeting in Hilo. As
most of you probably recall, there were 60 testifiers that provided unanimous support for over 3
hours of deeply emotional testimony, and not a single testimony was given against funding the
band that I can recall! I organized the gathering of 4,006 hand written signatures and submitted
that in my testimony that evening. I would like to update that figure to include 266 more names
that came in to me immediately after the March 22, 2010 meeting (enclosed) for a total of 4,272
hand written signatures from supporters. Another band supporter submitted testimony last year
having just over 6,000 electronic signatures from people both statewide and abroad in support of
the band. And that number to date stands at 6,405 electronic signatures from those supporters.
Many visitors to the Big Island strongly support the band as they see it as an icon for
Hawaii's Aloha Spirit. It is something that we can and should be proud of and we should not let
a temporary tough economic situation make us lose sight of what is important in our
community. The band has a long and rich history and tradition dating back 128 years during the
times of the Royal Hawaiian Monarchy. Our rich heritage and cultural ties from the past must
not be severed under any circumstances because once it is cut, it will be gone forever.
I believe that the bad economic times will pass with good leadership, and if the band is
lost in our desperate attempts to develop a contentious balanced budget at best, when times are
better, we will look back and ask ourselves, "Did we really have to sacrifice the band ?" And
supporters and the community that have enjoyed the beautiful music created by the good hearts
and souls of this high caliber group of professionals will be truly saddened to have lost yet
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TESTIMONY: IN SUPPORT OF FUNDING FOR THE HAWAII COUNTY BAND
Hawaii County Council Meeting
May 18, 2011
Hawaii County Building in Hilo
another symbol of who we are as a local Hawaiian society. Please look beyond this year's
difficult budget into the future and I hope that you will visualize a future that will be better for us
all, and one that will still see and hear the band playing on.
We had hoped that our message of support last year was strong, clear and unequivocal so
that this issue would not arise again. We ask that you please think about the will of the people
that you are responsible to represent, and consider our overwhelming evidence of that
tremendous community support. Please keep funding for the band!
Mahalo,
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Kelvin Sewake
Save the Hawaii County Band Supporter
1287 -A Puhau Street
Hilo, Hawaii 96720
Ph: 808 - 938 -5559 (cell)
Enclosure: Signed Petitions received after the March 22, 2010 Hawaii County Council Meeting
(7 pages total)
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Return this petition by March 18, 2010 to: Kelvin Sewake, 1287 -A Puhau Street, Hilo, HI 96720,
Ph: 808- 938 -5559, Email: Gr82bfriendz @aol.com. MAHALO FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
SAVE THE HAWAII COUNTY BAND PROGRAM
Petition to the Hawaii County Council Members, March 1, 2010
By signing below, I am indicating that I am in full support the Hawaii County
Band program and would like to see it funded adequately so that it may continue to
provide service to the community.
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