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WHEREAS, while the County acknowledges the complexities of establishing a comprehensive policy to address all "roads in limbo'; there is a long standing community need for the County to be responsive now for reason of public health and safety; and WHEREAS, the County currently does not have sufficient funding to maintain all of these "roads in limbo"; and WHEREAS, the County is pursuing cooperation with state and federal governments toward funding a comprehensive government road maintenance, program; and WHEREAS, certain communities have organized themselves into associations or corporations and have expressed a desire to collaborate with the County to plan for and contribute, financially and otherwise, to the improvement and maintenance of these "roads in limbo" which serve their communities; and WHEREAS, the improvement and maintenance of these "roads in limbo" will involve various forms and levels of construction and maintenance, each case requiring individual and unique treatment according to the needs of the community and its resources; and WHEREAS, the Mayor and Director of the Department of Public Works are willing to work cooperatively with said community groups to improve and maintain "roads in limbo;" and WHEREAS, the improvement and maintenance of these "roads in limbo" will require the consent and approval of the County Council with respect to the receipt of monetary contributions and dedications of encroachments, drainageways, and other rights-of-way NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII that it hereby establishes the following interim criteria under which it will accept maintenance responsibilities fora "road in limbo": 1. The road shall be delineated and identified on a Public Works "Roads In Limbo" Inventory Map in Communication No. 140.8 (2002). 2. The Department of Public Works, in consultation with Corporation Counsel, must determine that it is a government road. 3. The road to be taken by the County shall be an existing road "on the ground" and not a "paper road." 4. The physical road must be within the legal alignment of the government road, or adjoining landowners must be willing to dedicate, at no cost to the county, the alignment of the physical road and adjoining right of way to equal the width of the existing right of way. 5. The surrounding community or landowners must pay for the initial survey locating the road right of way and the existing road and participate in the substantial funding of improvements and/or dedication of land for road alignment purposes. 6. The County shall have adequate funding to construct and maintain the road-in-limbo. 7. Priority shall be given to roads that serve existing homes.