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Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2016 6:23 AM 'Date DCT 3" 20
To: Council Testimony;Wille, Margaret; Chung,Aaron; Kanuha, Dru; David, Maile; Eoff,
Karen;Ilagan, Greggor; Onishi, Dennis; Paleka, Daniel; Poindexter, Valerie
Cc: fbrewer;senruderman@capitol.hawaii.gov; Ursula Snover;jay ignacio;james@darla.com;
Nelson Ho; Cory Harden; Nadine Robertson; islandeyesvideo;fhughes
Subject: Fwd: PREREQUISITE FOR ALL AG EXEMPT LANDS - CERTIFICATION THAT AG EXEMPT
LANDS ARE ALBIZIA FREE
This Council Testimony is for Committee agenda items, October 4, 2016:
1. 9:00am, PUBLIC SAFETY AND MASS TRANSIT COMMITTEE, Comm.1072, Requests
discussion with Civil Defense re Island Wide Disaster Preparedness, M. Wille
2. 10:30am FINANCE COMMITTEE, Bill 218: Relating to Exemptions from RP tax--,Comm.923.10,
Bill 219. Relating to Nondedicated Agricultural Use---.
3. 1:30pm PLANNING COMMITTEE, Bill 227: Relating to Agricultural Tourism .
4. 2:00pm AGRICULTURE, WATER AND ENERGY SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE, Bill 242: Re
Sustainibility & Resilience Principles for Hwaii County, M. Wille
5. 2:30pm ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE, Bill 245: Prohibits toxic herbicides in
County owned or maintained areas, M. Wille
6. If Bills 218/219'should be on the October 5, 2016 Counsel Agenda this Council Testimony would
be for that agenda item also.
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To: "Wille, Margaret" <margaret.wille@hawaiicounty.gov>, "aaron chung"
<aaron.chung@hawaiicounty.gov>, "dru kanuha" <dru.kanuha@hawaiicounty.gov>, "maile david"
<maile.david@hawaiicounty.gov>, "Eoff, Karen" <Karen.Eoff@hawaiicounty.gov>, "Greggor Ilagan"
<gilagan@co.hawaii:hi.us>, "dennis onishi" <dennis.onishi@hawaiicounty.gov>, "danny paleka"
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Cc: "fbrewer" <fbrewer@hawaii.edu>, senruderman@capitol.hawaii.gov, "Ursula Snover"
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Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2016 10:27:49 AM
Subject: PREREQUISITE FOR ALL AG EXEMPT LANDS - CERTIFICATION THAT AG EXEMPT
LANDS ARE ALBIZIA FREE
Aloha Margaret and Aaron, No.
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Aloha Hawaii County Council Members, qFAC. Dat~e 7n9F
Appreciate you both speaking up about overtime and looking out for our precious TAX
DOLLARS. Tutu and I live very frugally trying to stretch our inflation deflated dollars to last us our
lifetime so we are not a burden to anyone, so we especially appreciate it when we see our elected
representatives looking out for our hard earned precious tax dollars.
Did I waste my time and breath testifying on Bills 218/219? With $40,000,000.00 tax dollars of
taxpayer paid subsidy for Ag Exempt lands to we ranchers/farmers/growers comes a Kuleana. This
Kuleana is a prerequisite that our AG Exempt lands be certified Albizia free. Albizia is the most
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invasive, costly ( HELCO alone approx $15,000,000.00 and running not including the proposed
HELCO rate increase ) not to mention individual insurance and non insured losses, how many million
dollars more? And of course all those remaining trees that need to be removed before the next
triggering event and then the damage caused by Albizia in the next event.
Albizia, non dangerous type, which is what AG Exempt Albizia is, is so inexpensive and easy to treat
as my show and tell demonstration trunk depicts. Also, good replacement trees can be purchased for
$1:00. I propagate my own for $0.00.
If a rancher/farmer/grower has owned their land for 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 years and there still
are Albizia on that land, when do you think the land owner will treat it and eradicate it? That is why
we need an "incentive".
I am putting my money where my mouth is. I have started "ALBIZIA FREE N. KULANI ROAD". I am
working with fellow/neighbor land owners on N. Kulani to make N. Kulani Albizia Free. BIISC is
coordinating with us. We call it "ALBIZIA FREE N. KULANI". I also started a non profit ALBIZIA
FREE HAWAII ISLAND.
Both BIISC and Jay Ignacio/HELCO support the proposal that a prerequisite for AG Exempt lands be
that they are certified ALBIZIA FREE. I have spoken with many others, ranchers/farmers/growers,
Albizia activists, and John Q Publics and they all support the proposal.
I commit to work with you to write the amendments to the bills, to conduct public workshops to take
public input on the Albizia amendment, to educate all so that any opposition to the Albizia amendment
can be eliminated and/or drastically reduced.
To do Albizia "business as usual" on Hawaii island is unacceptable! We all need to work together for
the eradication of the most costly invasive on Hawaii Island, Albizia.
Again, Mahalo for looking out for our precious tax dollars and Mahalo for considering the Albizia
prerequisite,
Bob Ernst 968-8611
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