HomeMy WebLinkAboutComm No 0003.01.14 - Testimony - Ad Hoc - PONC fund and Maintenance fundFrom: Doug Perrine <perrine@hawaii.rr.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2018 1:37 PM
To: Charter Commission
Subject: Leave the 2% land fund (PONC fund) alone!
Dear Commission members:
We, the citizens of Hawaii County, have voted now 3 times to overwhelmingly approve 2% of our property taxes to be
used to purchase precious, sacred, and scenic properties to preserve them in perpetuity. Mayor Kim continues on his
mission to raid this fund and use it for every day county business. He has forgotten his most important mission: Malama
Aina. This spectacular land, of which we are the caretakers, is like no other on earth. It will be here long after all of us
have passed and future generations have occupied the soil. Will Hawaii still be a special and sacred place? Or just
another patch of strip malls, motels, and fast food joints like any part of the mainland? I understand that on Nov. 9 you
will be meeting to consider various ways to cap the PONC fund, and re -direct the money to the general fund where the
Mayor can spend it as he wishes. Additionally, it seems that the Mayor is delaying us of the fund to purchase the
properties on the list, and has allowed over $19million to accumulate, possibly in hopes of quickly exceeding any cap to
instituted by the Charter Commission.
Please respect the will of the citizens and leave the fund as it is - in the form that we have mandated through our
electoral voice. To improve the efficiency of the fund, please ask Mayor Kim why his administration has not used the
fund to obtain matching funds for land protection, and why he has allowed such an accumulation of unspent funds,
rather than using these funds for the purpose mandated by the voters.
mahalo nui loa,
Dou Perrine
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