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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> N' <br /> <br /> '99 OC"- 2 Ail S 33 <br /> - i~1hSf11SSI0n 1 <br /> <br /> <br /> ntfr) To: <br /> Mayor Steve Yamashlro 969 3291 <br /> From: <br /> 9658448 <br /> Date and Time <br /> Thursday. October I, 1998 at 7:04PM <br /> Number of Pages <br /> I. including this cover page. <br /> <br /> If you have any problems or questions regarding this transmission, <br /> please call 9658448 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Dear Mayor Yamashiro. <br /> <br /> I recently read a newspaper article about the bill to ban skating on sidewalks. Please do <br /> not go along with this infringement of personal rights. As you know, the Butler building was <br /> opened to skaters for a brief month and then taken away in preparation for the 3 day fair <br /> approx. 1.5 months ago. The Pahoa area by the pool is contingent on volunteers, and the Pahoa <br /> Park and Rec. director does not really want them there. With George Yoshida retiring, there is <br /> no friend to skaters at Park and Rec. Most skaters are nor. bad kids. If you are going to pass a <br /> bill, pass it to outlaw the behaviors that are offensive, not just generalizingly picking on skaters. <br /> The bill should outlaw intimidating, harassing or physically threatening pedestrians on the <br /> sidewalks, not just the act of using a skate device to travel of have fun. That way, it would also <br /> apply to panhandlers who might be intimidating pedestrians. or bicyclists or drunks or whomever <br /> is causing the problem. There is little enough for kids to do in Hilo, and we if put the sidewalks <br /> and public streets off limits to them. we are going way over the line. Please Mr. Mayor stand up <br /> for our children and skaters and vote no on this bill. <br /> Wilda Collins <br /> 965 8448 <br /> RR3 Box 2351 <br /> Pahoa, HI 96778 <br />