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HCHA meeting November 5, 2020 <br />Oberman: Aloha. I'm Betty Oberman. I come from Vacationland/Kapoho. I <br />have been there for 20 years. I serve on the ... I'm Vice -President of the VHCA, <br />Vacationland Community Association. I have been involved with the Water <br />Board since 2002. I'm appalled that ... I'm hurt ... I cry every day that you folks <br />don't listen to us. I have been involved with this since the lava flow, highway 132, <br />we've talked about highway 137, our community has had the opportunity to <br />look at grants we've even been granted $250,000 but we can't get to our <br />properties, we need at least a small section of 137. 1 know others chime in and <br />they want all of 137 done but we can't get anywhere near Vacationland <br />without the road being opened up so that our surveyors, our people, we are <br />private property, we know we have to operate our own expense, the offer of a <br />buyout is ... is horrible because people don't want to come back, they don't <br />want to support our community. There's myself, Eileen, Robert, <br />Bernadette... there's so many of us ... Paul, were all working hard to go home and <br />we need roads and then we can work on our infrastructure, get our water back, <br />do all we need to do and I wish that you guys would listen to us. We have <br />begged and begged and begged for two and a half years and we hear <br />nothing. Its always, we gotta survey. Finally, often times I feel like a child who fell <br />in the pool and I'm yelling help! help! help! help! and the life guard says well let <br />me research that and see if I can save you. (laughter) That's exactly how I feel <br />and I've put 20 years into this community, we, our community, Vacationland, <br />we've had a lot of vacation rentals, we brought in a lot of maintenance people, <br />laborers, painters, we spent a lot of money at Home Depot, Lowes, Sears. We <br />really have supported the community, it may not be that were growers or have <br />orchards or agriculture and so forth but we have fully supported the community <br />with our vacation rentals [time tone] and with our own personal needs. My <br />husband and I retired to Vacationland in 2020, excuse me 2000 even, we <br />worked all our lives to afford to live where we were living. Please help us out. <br />Help us to get to our homes. Mahalo. <br />Aiello: Thank you Ms. Oberman. Our next speaker Amedeo Markoff. Mr. Markoff <br />can you hear me? <br />Markoff: Yes I can hear you, can you hear me? <br />Aiello: I can, I understand that you have another person there that will be <br />testifying from your location, is that correct? <br />Markoff: Yes ma'am that's John Olson. <br />Aiello: Okay. You can go ahead. Your three minutes starts now. <br />Markoff: Okay, thank you. Okay, so as you folks know I'm the President of <br />Mainstreet Pdhoa Association and we are the longest serving community <br />Page 6 of 36 <br />