HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0923.001 2014-2016 Margaret Wille ;-IV OF N� Phone No.Hilo: (808)961-8027
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HAWAII COUNTY COUNCIL
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TO: Dru Mamo Kanuha, Council Chair and Members of the Hawai`i County Council _
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FROM: Margaret Wille, Council Member
DATE: July 14, 2016 0
SUBJECT: Proposed Amendment to Bill No. 218; Relating to Exemptions from Real
Property Tax by Way of Dedication of Land for Agricultural Use
Please find attached a proposed amendment to Bill No. 218. The proposed amendment is illustrated
below by Ramseyer format with respect to the contents of Bill No. 218 (material to be deleted is
bracketed and stricken). To conserve resources, a draft copy of Bill No. 218, Draft 2, with the
amendment incorporated therein is not attached.
Bill No. 218 is amended by amending the findings and purpose to read as follows:
"SECTION 1. Findings and purpose. The purpose of the agricultural use assessment
program is to encourage continual and committed agricultural use of lands, by affording those
engaged in bona fide farming a substantial break in real property taxes. In order to better achieve this
purpose, the Council finds it necessary to revise the nondedicated agricultural use assessment
program and to establish a new short-term dedicated agricultural use assessment program. This
ordinance provides an opportunity for those currently in the non-dedicated program seeking to
participate in either the three year or ten year commercial agricultural use dedication programs to
make any necessary adjustments in their farming operations [ existing non
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remain in the revised non-dedicated program rather than participate in one of the commercial
dedicated programs, but at seventy percent of the market value for the qualifying agricultural
use land."
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