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WHEREAS, the FEA recommends widening the Kea`au-Pahoa Road to four lanes between Kea'au Bypass and the Pahoa-Kapoho Road; and WHEREAS, the Puna Regional Circulation Plan (PRCP) has projected the Puna district population to double by the year 2030 and also recommends widening the Kea`au-Pahoa Road to four lanes; and WHEREAS, both the Puna Community Development Plan and the PRCP have listed the urgent need for safety and capacity improvements along the Kea`au-Pahoa Road due to the lack of emergency bypass routes, the high motor vehicle fatality rate, the rapid growth and lack of provisions for equal access to transportation, the need to expand the mass transit system, and to provide bikeways and safe pedestrian travel; and WHEREAS, the Kea`au-Pahoa Road improvements are urgently needed to improve safety, provide increased mobility, reduce highway congestion, increase the use of alternative travel modes, address projected future traffic increases, and to ensure the highway is always available as the primary route for emergency first responders and civil defense evacuations; now therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII that it hereby supports passage of Senate Bill No. 377, which authorizes the issuance of$25,000,000 of general obligation bonds for the widening and other improvements to Highway 130, also known as the Kea`au-Pahoa Road. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Governor is urged to make the improvements to the Kea`au-Pahoa Road a high priority. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the State Department of Transportation is urged to secure additional funding from the Federal Highways Administration to support the improvements to the Kea`au-Pahoa Road. 2