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Mr.Yagong July 29, 1998 TO: Senator Daniel Inouye Mayor Stephen Yamashiro Hawai'i County Council Members( From: Anita Basque Joseph A. Basque L- RE: Sewer Line Exemption TMK: 2-2-35:12 Anita, my mother, is 78 and the property owner. Her husband John, my father, died November 1980. Anita's only income is social security $702 per month. I am her care-giver. Two houses are on the property. The front house is her home. The rear home is a 600 square foot cottage; no one lives in it; it was a cottage for Anita's parents. When they died the cottage has remained empty. It has no kitchen; no hot water. On occasion when mainland family members visit, they stay at the cottage for a week or two, at the most. Repealing the sewer line exemption has serious consequences for Anita. It's obvious she is unable to finance the hook-up. In September 1991 James Glover estmated the hook- up cost at $32,575. Isemoto Contracting, who at that time was installing the main sewer line along Kalanikoa, offered a verbal estimate of approximately $31,000. Today, the cost would be higher. Even if Arita mortaged her property to pay the hook-up cost, she could not meet the monthly mortage payments. A further hardship is the County's notice to begin assessing her a sewer fee of $25 per month beginning September 1998. Now, she is stressed with financial worry as to where the $300 yearly fee will come from. She's abandoning hope that the property she has called home for over 50 vears and that she and dad struggled so long and worked so hard to call their own will be lost. She knows in her heart that if the County Council repeals the sewer line exemption the County will place a lien on the property and she will lose her home. That act will Q be the crushing blow; the end will quickly follow. ' N+•--eCJLC,.--I-_--.. The ethical and moral responsibility is yours. ENC: Sewer Line Exemption Letter date 9/27/91 AUG I s 1998 James Glover, Ltd Sewer Line hoop-up estimate date 9/2G/9I