2010-11-17 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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from the mainland will see a lot, and he says oh, I want to buy that lot. And they may buy that lot from a picture on a real estate site. Okay, so then they grub it, and then they contract out to somebody and they build a house on it. And then they sell their property in Florida and they come here, they move into their home, and they're sitting on the back veranda, and they're looking out and they see some guy living in a tent. Or they see some house that's close to their property and they go, well, that looks like an illegal structure. And then they file a complaint, all right. So then we have now where we have this established ohana for 15, 20 years because some of these people have lived in tents for a long time. Some of these people have lived in these illegal structures for a long time. And now we have a newcomer coming in, and they set up their place, but they don't like their environment anymore. And now they want the environment changed to what they find suitable. So it's like we're allowing outside influence to come in and to change our ohana, and so is one of the solutions to that to establish Type -II housing, where now there's this architecturally approved structure? It may not look like this house over here, but at least it's a permitted structure and the individual could still live on his land and be within the county permits. So I would it may not be what this person wants to see next door, but it may be something that is more acceptable to them when they find out that oh, okay, well, it's not exactly what I wanted. I guess I'll have to plant some podocarpus there or something so I don't see it. I think those issues we'll just have to hammer them out a little more in detail, because people may disagree with 120 square feet, because right now the Building Code says 500 square feet. MATSUDA: What happens say you have a permitted structure at 120 square feet and they want to extend it another 40 square feet? Now, do you have to apply for another building permit for that additional 40 square feet? LEONARD: Yes, you would. Yeah. But you wouldn't do 40 square feet. So the idea here that I had in design possibilities is that you would design these homes 120 square foot, that's Module A. 100 square feet, another 120, that's Module B. Maybe a 200 square foot module is C. MATSUDA: Right, right. LEONARD: So a person who's very limited on income could at least get into a structure, and then later on when he says let's build a bedroom now, let's add some more. And then these come together and are connected very economically, right. So it's easy to put them together. Okay. And I'm already on my last one? Wow, okay. Number 8, beneficial suggestion program. I come from the federal government. I worked for the federal government for 32 years, and we had a beneficial suggestion program. And I loved it, because I came up with lots of ideas and implemented things. And I actually got some nice paychecks from that. But what it does, it really instills people to look at their processes, their environment, and say is there a way of doing things better? And the example I gave in here is that you go out, the county is going to buy a bunch of SUVs, and so they go buy these big Ford Explorers and they're $24,000. And let's say we're going to buy ten of them. But geez, here's this other SUV over here, four -wheel drive. It's $16, 000, and it basically accomplishes the same purpose. So why don't we buy those? That saves the county $160,000 or 16