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Department of Public Safety, is intended to "alleviate the severe overcrowding that exists at the <br /> Hawai`i Community Correctional Center in order to provide a safe, secure and humane <br /> environment for the care and custody of adult male and female offenders from Hawai`i Island"; <br /> and <br /> WHEREAS, even after the project is completed in 2023 —and assuming that the jail <br /> population does not move up closer to its pre-COVID numbers—the additional beds will still <br /> leave the facility at well over its capacity; and <br /> WHEREAS, the findings and tenor of the report appear to validate the community's <br /> long-standing concerns that the location is no longer compatible to accommodate the needs of <br /> inmates and workers, as well as the collateral impacts to the neighboring area; now, therefore, <br /> BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII that it is <br /> in the best interests of the Hilo community for the Hawai`i Community Correctional Center to be <br /> relocated to an area which will provide more space for the State Department of Public Safety to <br /> accommodate the proper expansion of the facility and to better support the needs of its inmate <br /> population and employees. <br /> BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the County Clerk shall transmit a copy of this <br /> resolution to the Honorable Governor David Y. Ige, the Honorable Lieutenant Governor Dr. Josh <br /> Green, all members of the Senate and House of Representatives, and Director Max N. Otani, <br /> Department of Public Safety <br /> Dated at Kona , Hawai`i, this 19th day of October , 2022 . <br /> INTRODUCED BY: <br /> 0-- <br /> COUNCIL MEM':ER, COUNTY OF HAWAII <br /> COUNTY COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE <br /> County of Hawai`i AYES NOES ABS EX <br /> Hilo, Hawai`i CHUNG X <br /> DAVID X <br /> I hereby certify that the foregoing RESOLUTION was by INABA X <br /> the vote indicated to the right hereof adopted by the COUNCIL of the NEALI`I-KLEINFELDER X <br /> County of Hawai`i on October 19, 2022 . KAKA KIERKIEWICZ X <br /> KIMBALL X <br /> ATTEST: LEE LOY X <br /> RICHARDS X <br /> VILLEGAS X <br /> jr--,0aw, . _ ...01rAill <br /> 9 0 0 0 <br /> 11111111% :. _ ✓�10110.-, --dgillii..7- 40160V7411ff ' <br /> Reference: C-1007 GOREDC-27 <br /> CLERK •IRPERSON&PRESIDING OFFICER RESOLUTION NO. <br /> 559 22 2 <br />