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COUNTY CLERK CAµM 352
COUNTY OF HAWAII
From: Sue rose CEI D
To: Council Testimony Time 10 Q`5 13y
Cc: Eoff,Karen Qg/05 (I
Subject: Don"t change development plan Date
Date: Tuesday,July 30,2019 12:29:19 PM
Aloha All,
The following letter was in today's WHT. I totally support his viewpoint and appreciate his clear
statement, particularly as it comes from a CDP development participant to whom promises were
made. Please keep them.
I am a certified purchasing manager, certified for life. I retired from Pacific Bell as a contract
negotiator. I negotiated its largest equipment and software contracts for them. When I took
that job, I took the responsibility to negotiate contracts advantageous to Pacific Bell. I
fulfilled that responsibility every time for every contract I wrote.
When we, the Kona community, began to work on the Kona Community Development Plan,
my first question was, "If we develop a plan that will guide this county to develop our
community in a way that is the best for us, will the county abide by it and enforce it?"
I was assured that this is exactly why we were all there, to get input as to how the
community wanted Kona to be developed.The people who gave input spent many
thousands of hours over many months creating the best community development plan I
have ever seen.The County Council voted the plan in as an ordinance and the courts
subsequently upheld it as the law.We used the words shall and will to declare that it is
imperative to have these actions taken on our behalf.
I oppose changing the Kona Community Development Plan by any means that will remove
the imperative way it must be implemented.
To mischaracterize the plan's wording as a liability is only to create fear and doubt. Changing
shall and will in the plan would take its heart out and it may never be implemented as we all
were promised.This is contrary to the spirit of the plan and to all who took part in creating
it. It is not a liability, it is a responsibility to implement the plan as written.
When the County Council took on the job of implementing the Kona Community
Development Plan,they were given the responsibility to implement the plan as it is written,
every time,just as I did for each of the contracts I wrote.
Please contact your County Council representative and ask them to vote against weakening
our Kona Community Development Plan.
Implement the written will of the Kona community.
Lawrence Ford
Captain Cook
Comm. No.
Ref. To: V I Co U110 I
Ref. Date AUG 0 6 2019
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