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(b) Kainaliu Town - No parking thru Kainaliu Town; pending on public parking lot replacements and turnaround areas. Negotiation and planning numerous off-street parking lots, bus pull-outs, and turnaround areas. (c) Kealakekua Town • Phase I; two-way left-turn pocket (Kamagaki Market and Hale Ke'eke'e Place) Bid Opening Date: O6 APR 2006 • Phase Il; two-way left-turn center lane thru town is progressing. Planning and design is progressing. • Phase III; off-street public parking lot (Kamigaki lease). Planning and design is progressing. (d) Honalo Town; land acquisitions and widening for two-way left-turn lane through town. • Submitted 2006 CIP Financial Impact Statement for budgeting improvements. Estimated cost $12,150,000. • Honalo junction Right-Turn Only test, with DPW-TRF. 6. What positions will not be filled in FY 07? We anticipate filling all vacant positions in FY 07. While certain Kona positions take longer to fill than others, their funds are still needed at this time so that the existing continuous recruitment can proceed. If funds are diverted, then recruitment must stop at the time that the funds are transferred. 7. What is the status of the roads-in-limbo project? The Roads-in-Limbo project is in the move again. A series of six public informational meetings will be held in April. These meetings will help to confirm the specific roads that are eligible for inclusion on a list of Roads- in-Limbo. These meetings will be followed by the drafting of an ordinance which list the eligible roads, the design guidelines that will address their design, and lastly provide a funding mechanism for their on-going operation and maintenance. The ordinance should be presented to the Council this fall. 8. Is there any reason why we only resurfaced 3.38 miles of County roads in the first six months of FY 06 (Departmental & Agencies' Six Month Progress Report on Program Objectives for FY 05-06, page 4, goal for FY 06 is 35 miles)? The 3.38 miles is mainly Palani Road Resurfacing (funds from the special highway fund balance appropriation). We encountered delays in repaving due to difficulty in obtaining paving oil. Current contractors only had limited supplies. Also, the incremental (2004-2006) appropriations from fuel tax for local road resurfacing was not approved until September 2005 (Ord 05-130), deVayed due to the proposal of a new district apportionment formula (which factors in the cost of asphalt concrete which varies between East and West Hawai i). However, we anticipate we will meet our goal of resurfacing 35 miles.