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The Exchange

by By Anthony Pignataro

December 07, 2006





WHO GAVE: Charlie Jencks



WHO RECEIVED: Maui County Mayor-elect Charmaine Tavares



DATE: Oct. 6, 2006



AMOUNT: $200



Normally contributions as small as $200 wouldn’t even appear in this

space, but considering Tavares’ comments in the Nov. 29, 2006 Maui News

about the proposed privately owned and operated Malulani Hospital—and

Jencks’ well-established stature as one of Maui’s premier land

developers—I couldn’t resist. “I think Malulani Medical Center would be

a good thing for Maui,” she said in the paper. And many people—though

not state health officials, who nixed the idea back in October—agree. I

know Charlie Jencks agrees, because corporate filings for Malulani

Health Systems—the local company that will control 20 percent of the

proposed hospitals equity (Plano, Texas-based Triad Hospitals, Inc.

would hold the rest)—show him as a member of the board of directors. Of

course, whether Jencks’ paltry $200 check to Tavares (he’s given a lot

more to others) has anything to do with Malulani is difficult to say.

His mammoth controversial Wailea 670 project hasn’t exactly been built

yet, and Jencks’ bio at the Malulani website lists a host of reasons

why he might want to help someone become Maui County Mayor: “President,

Maui Contractor’s Association; past Director Maui Public Works; Seabury

Hall Board Director; Maui County BSA Council Board & Past

President; Board Maui Chamber of Commerce.”