2011-06-08 Cost of Government Commission Minutes

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been initiated. And frankly, I don’t know if it’s even possible to get people out. So we really have to take a good hard look at what’s going on at PGV. And I know that they are providing 16% of the electricity right now, but is that worth the health and integrity of our water and our people? The last thing on my agenda is the education.I myself am partially dyslexic. I have a daughter who basically writes everything backwards and upside down. In the No Child Left Behind, there is no issue that addresses dyslexia, dysgrafia or any of these other issues. So according to my teacher at college, 15 to 20% of the entire population in the County of Hawai‘i has some form of dyslexia. When I asked KHON Channel 2 to do a news story, I said choose any school anywhere in the state. Basically they estimated that there is about 28,000 children at risk every year for dyslexia. So the issue is the worst case scenario is usually prison because these children cannot read, they can’t write properly. They go out they might steal, anything to avoid going to school cause they don’t want to feel stupid. And nobody is helping them. They treat them as if they have a hearing problem or they’ll move them to the front of the classroom. But they have no proper program that addresses all these 28,000 children. Now I don’t know, out of our particular schools and what not, how many children we have at risk. But I basically had to go in and shadow my daughter. She just hated being in school. She felt stupid and nobody was helping her. So you have issues of low self esteem, teenage pregnancy, drug abuse, all these things that they just don’t want to be in school. They’re not getting help. So I’m pleading for you now to do something for all these kids. Thank you. Are there any questions that you have about anything? And my address is P.O. Box 711498, Mt. View, HI 96771. If possible, I would like some kind of written response on any agenda item under anything that you might – I would like very much to even be able to go back, I’m what they call the talking chief for Kamehameha III people. I’d like to go back and report to them that there is a positive change, that we can retrofit the county, we can address these issues, we can protect the water, we can protect the native tenants. And that we can do something which would actually bring out the integrity of the county and increase moral and ethical behavior. Just basically we follow our own laws. Thank you. APPROVAL OF MINUTES (MAY 27, 2011) MS. NICHOLSON: Let’s move on with Agenda item 3, Approval of minutes from the May 27, 2011 meeting. Do I hear a motion to approve? MOTION:MR. MATSUDA: So moved. MR. ARMOUR: Second. MS. NICHOLSON: Any discussion on the minutes from the last meeting? If so, I’d like to move to a vote.In favor of approving the minutes from the last meeting, please say aye. ALL IN FAVOR:ALL: Aye. MS. NICHOLSON: Any opposed? None. The minutes are passed as presented. 5