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Charles Flaherty From: Charles Flaherty loneheart@aloha.net] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 2:41 PM Cc: 'Ford, Brenda'; 'Hoffmann, Pete; 'Donald Ikeda'; 'jjaco@co.hawai1.hi.us; 'shiga@co.hawaii.hi.us'; 'enaeoie@oo.hawaii.hi.us'; 'KAPILAGO@oo.hawaii.hi.us'; 'Dominic Yagong'; jyoshimoto@co.hawaii. hi.us' Subject: Oppose Bill 236 Aloha mai Chairman Pilago and members of the Planning Committee, I am opposed to Bill 235 which would amend Condition L of rezoning Ordinance 96-8. In 1994, the people of District 7 re-elected Keola Childs to the County Council. Mr. Childs, who is now an employee of the Kim administration, was intimately involved in negotiating Condition L with the community. Mr. Childs and then-Mayor Yamashiro repeatedly promised the people living and working around the Haleki'i Street area that Condition L would prevent their street from becoming a major connector road. The community believed that Condition L, their contract with the county, would be honored and that they could go on with their lives without worry. So these good people were unaware when current Planning Director Chris Yuen quietly slipped a General Plan amendment through former-Chairman Higa's County Council in 2006. That General Plan amendment designated Haleki'i Street as a major connector road. That maneuver was the County's first step in breaking its contract with the community. Last month, the Planning Commission took the second step towards breaking the contract by recommending changing Condition L. Now this Council is being asked by the Kim administration to take the third and final step in breaking the County's contract with the community. They are trying to entice you and the community with more promises. 1 hope you have read Sections 4 and 10 on pages 1, 4-6 of the Addendum to the Hokuli'a settlement agreement which I e-mailed to you on Monday. It is very important that this Council know that, despite repeated assurances, Mayor Kim and his administration have broken all but one of the written promises In these sections of this contract. Regardless of its intentions, I have learned the hard way that I cannot trust the county administration's promises, whether they are spoken or written. Please do not become a part of the administration's legacy of broken trust. The county administration went forward with the Hokuli'a project, despite a judge's warning. The result was a $265 million lawsuit which threatened to bankrupt the County. That threat was eliminated when the Hokuli'a plaintiffs settled our legal action, a legal action that the county lost. The same judge recently cleared the way for completion of the Bypass Highway. This time, the county won. So why isn't the administration moving forward to complete the entire Bypass Highway? The county can post a bond to cover any potential future liability from the Coupe legal action. So there's no longer any excuse for not completing the entire Bypass Highway. Meanwhile, don't break your contract with the community. Please do not amend Condition L in Ordinance 96-8 and vote Ones" on Bill 236. a , MW 2/20/2008