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Page (See the facts and figures for Dahu and the C 8 C of Honolulu and their funding of Public ~'ransportation ae a criority! pages 13 & 14.) Hawaii Island has more land area and at least 10% of Oahu's copulation, so why do the people here receive only about 1% of the total yearly funds for Public Transportation received by OAHU: C 8 C OF HONOLULU - FTA TOTAL (see pages 13 & 14 attached) FY 1997 FY 1998 Oahu: C 8 C of Honolulu 5124,925.000.00 5135.665,000.00 COUNTY OF HAWAII - FHWA (Page 18) FY 1996 (That year only) Transfer to Transit Total: 51,221,000.00 Hawaii: l;ounty of Hawaii (Federal 5977, 000.00)(Local 5244, 000.N0> QUESTION 7. Where and how was this money spent, end by whom? ANSWER: According to the State Transportation Planner at the meeting (watch video), the 5(77,000.00 was spent to purchase 7 new HELE-ON "NEOPLAN" HANDICAPPED ACCESSSIBLE BUSES - while the 5244,000.00 "Local" share was spent on operations. These monies were received by the Mass Transit Agency far "that year only" due to some left over highway funds from 1995 that had to be allocated and spent by 1996! QUESTION 8. Why were no funds "Transferred to Transit" for 1997 or 1998? Ie it a "matter of Public record" to see accounting of the actual expenditure of funds? (Yea, the Mass Transit Agency and County should be able to provide a complete accounting, in detail, of income and expenditure of public funds.) I guess no one thought of it or believed it was enough of a priority to ask or insist that funds be reallocated or re- prioritized from the County level. The State says the request must come from the Maes Transit Agency and the County of Hawaii, and they hadn't received any requests for funding for transit or any indication that 1t was a priority to the people on this Island! They knew nothing about the "Request for Proposal to Develop a Coordinated Public Transportation System, or any request for funding at the State level! (See video & minutes of the January KTTF Meeting, when we were told that Mike Cochran, of the Mass Transit Agency of Hawaii, had requested an additional S10.000.00 from the State llOT, and expected the funds would be made available and the kFP advertised for bid by mid-February 1597!) FACTS: In 1996, 51,000,000.00 fSl million) was spent on the Island of Hawaii dust for planning the "Saddle Road Extension" from Mamalahoa Highway to the Queen Kaahumanu Highway!