MIN CHARTER 2019-04-02 (2018-2020) - Public Hearing

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Hawai`i County Charter Commission —Public Hearing April 2, 2019 the roads, but the response specifically to disaster and emergency fund really I think needs to be amped up. The County Civil Defense Team was so overtaxed with the lava response here. I just don't think they could get around to do anything else and the people that are involved I work with Bobbi (inaudible) with neighborhood watch and she is wonderful but she is one person and we have got a lot of territory and we just you know, without improving the communication and outreach we have to potential community members that are on the CERT teams, the citizens are just... can't even be tapped to come into this relationship to help bolster, so if the County's funds can help with some of that outreach, infrastructure, administrative network that is now trying to be handled by volunteers and can't be, then we might be able to be a little further ahead with what we know is going to be more and more severe weather and crumbling infrastructure -bridges, you know, all these little go across bridges and we have got more people moving in with a giant you know, cargo vehicle that is coming across these little bridges and these things are not going to hold up, so I really support you, you know, creating this slight additional taxation that might be able to build up these funds. Thank you. CHR. ADAMS: (inaudible) PETE SPARKS: Commenting on County maps of Ahualoa. MR. SPARKS: My name is Pete Sparks. I am Francine's neighbor and all I really have to say at this point is that if there is money available for this, some of it may be used to update the County maps. I live in Ahualoa. I have hiked all through there. The County maps are wrong. I live on a paper road. It stops above my house. I maintain it myself. During the recent Zika outbreak a year or two ago there were maps posted on the interne. I saw these things with my own eyes, that showed how we were attacking the Zika and where the mosquitoes were and on those maps it shows you could drive with a regular sedan right up past my house through the guava thicket across Kuilei Gulch, take a left at Puaono Road, drive all the way through Ahualoa to Kalehua Drive. You cannot do this. You cannot do it in a bulldozer. Kuilei Gulch is 30 feet deep. Nienie Gulch, I have been down in the bottom and out the other side, is like 90 feet deep and the map show this is possible. If we are ever... it is one thing to be chasing mosquitoes with maps that are incorrect, but if we are trying to fight a big fire or do some kind of evacuation because a tanker truck full of chlorine gas fell over on the highway, we are in big trouble. Thank you very much. Page 5