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_ Page 4. For 1998, 35,300,000.00 (55.3 Million) hoe been allocated simply for a "Saddle Road Pohakuloa Training Area Bypass" (see page 16) 9UESTION 9. Were the People of Hawaii ever asked what was important or of priority to them in funding? At this "Public Information Meeting", (announced in the Legal Notices section of the newspaper), the few people who showed up were given a 34 page chart of facts and figures and told that since we probably wouldn't be able to look through 1t all that evening, we had until March 6th to respond. Rushing to get the video of the meeting on Public Access 'Celevieion, the first air date was March 2nd. FACT:"Shoulder improvements for bicycle route" Keahole to Kewaihae received 52,230,000.00 in 1996 (double the amount received for the "special allocation of highway funds for one year only for Public Transportation to purchase 7 much needed new HELE-ON Handicapped Accessible Public Transit buses!) FACT: for 1997. 350.000.00 has been allocated for DESIGN and an additional 3529.000.00 for CONSTRUCTION of "Queen Kaahumanu Highway Improvements at the Entrance to Koloko-Honokohau National Historic Park" (ISTEA FUND CATEGORY:"Discretionary"> (PAGE 17>. "THIS REPRESENTS ABOUT FUUR TIMES UUR USUAL TOTAL YEARLY EXPENDITURE FOR PUBLIC 1'RANSYORTA7'ION !•'OR THE WHOLE 1SLAND OF HAWAII! QUESTION 8. Who makes these decisions and why? ANSWER: COUNTY OF HAWAII - FTA FY 1996 FY 1997 FY 1998 Rural Transportation Program 51,532,000 3185,000 3629,000 Hawall:County of Hawaii (This is the (F'ed.S123,000>(Fed.5129,000) "Transfer to Transit" for 1996 ONLY(Loca1S62,000)(Local 5500,000) COMMENTS: EVEN THOUGH THE AMOUNT OF RURAL TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM FUNDS LOOKED GOOD FOR 1996, THIS WAS MADE UP LARGELY OF THE "TRANSFER TO TRANSIT" SHOWN EARLIER, AND NOT ADDITIONAL FUNDS, 1997 LOOKS DISMAL IN COMPARISON, AND EVEN THOUGH THE PROJECTION FOR 1998 APPEARS BETTER, IT LARGELY DEPENDS UPON THE "LOCAL" SECTOR COMING UP WITH THE MAJORITY OF THE FUNDS, WHICH IT HAS FAILED TO DO IN THE PAST. NOTE: EXAMINATION OF THE COUNTY COUNCIL PROPOSED BUDGET FOR THE UPCOMING FINANCIAL YEAR (PUBLIC HEARING AT YANG HALL MARCH 17TH, 7 P. M.) SHOWS NO ALLOCATION FOR PUBLIC TRANSIT!