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From: Tiffany Edwards Hunt
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Subject: Support for Reso 690-18
Date: Saturday,October 13,2018 2:00:25 PM
>Aloha,County of Hawai'i Council members:
>
>My regrets that I am unable to attend your meeting Wednesday in whichyou will discuss Resolution 690-18.1
have to work at the time you will be meeting.But my absence shouldn't indicate my lack of support for this
measure. Regretfully I missed your last meeting and your discussion on the matter.I have heard that too few of you
support this moratorium on commercial taxes and I would like to invite you to visit me in Pahoa and take a walk
around the town,tour my family business,and get an in-depth understanding of what we are enduring in order to
keep our village alive.
>Please note that I fully support the commercial tax relief proposal,and I am grateful to Puna Councilwoman Eileen
O'Hara for her.efforts to follow-up on requests from community members,like myself,seeking commercial tax
relief for our suffering Puna businesses.
>Sadly,since I last spoke before Council members making this suggestion,Sandra Baker,who also spoke,had to
make the tough call to shut down her Pahoa business.It's a sobering reminder that our economy has yet to rebound
from the devastation that the lava brought on all of us.It makes me so sad to see a fellow Pahoa merchant throw in
the towel.
>Please do what you can to prevent more casualties among the Puna businesses and the brick-and-mortar
businesses that are doing anything and everything to keep the village alive.Please,'please,please.
>Thanks for making your decision with the thought of keeping Pahoa Village alive.I should remind you,related to
this matter,our Pahoa pool remains closed.We have too few visitors coming our way.People aren't spending
discretionary funds on shops and restaurants when FEMA is denying them rental assistance because they are renting
off-grid homes and cannot show utility bills.These are some of the reasons are businesses remain crippled in spite
of the lava having stopped.Please give us this crucial break,so we can have a chance to survive.I'm eager to know
your thoughts as to why you would not.
>With aloha,
>Tiffany Edwards Hunt
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>aloha
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