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Murashige, Laura
From: Dana Melina Keawe <danakeawe@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2015 2:43 PM
To: Council Testimony; Kanuha, Dru; Wille, Margaret; Eoff, Karen; David, Maile; Ilagan,
Greggor; Poindexter, Valerie; Chung, Aaron; Paleka, Daniel; Onishi, Dennis
Subject: I support Bill 71
Aloha mai county council member,
Please support Bill 71.
Mahalo,
Dana Keawe
Na 'Ghana o Kalapana
Bill 71: (M.Wille) Prohibits toxic herbicides on all County owned or maintained property.
At the Council's May 2015 hearings for our County 2015 -2016 budget, the line items of greatest concern were that
"Roundup" spray line items in the several department budgets, including those of Parks & Recreation and Public
Works. At that time I promised to draft a bill to address the community's concerns.
As drafted this bill would prohibit the use of toxic herbicides, such as those containing glyphosate (Monsanto's
"Roundup"), on County owned and maintained parks, roadways, waterways, and other county spaces.
The World Health Organization and other health organizations have recently brought forth more evidence
concerning the negative effects of glyphosate on human health and to the environment. In my opinion it would be
irresponsible to continue to ignore the cries of so many to find alternative means to deal with weeds that are less
harmful to our people. To instead simply do another study or to only undertake some pilot project would be doing
next to nothing. The proposed bill has an effective date of July 1, 2016 to allow time for the County to transition to
alternative means of weed control.
Please do the right thing and support Bill 71 and ban ALL toxic herbicides on Hawai'i island.
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