2012-11-15 Leeward Exh E - DPW Laaloa

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included three primary components – complete the extension that we are discussing today, provide improvements on lower La‘aloa, and also to complete the portion of the Ali‘i Highway, or Parkway, that you can see in the large gap, all three of those have been mitigated, even though the needs still persist today – and despite the fact that these improvements were documented in the final EA as part of the Context Sensitive Solution report – they were part of the final environmental assessment – and the County Council, when they first approved the funding for the project, the $20,000,000 bond, the CIP Financial Data Statement sheet indicated the entire project would be completed at one time -. ARAI: Fifty seconds. WARD: Okay, here we go. There is absolutely no guaranty under this current proposal that any of these improvements will ever be done. And it’s for that reason that I’m requesting two conditions for your consideration: One – and I think most of you have a copy of my prior testimony, just for easy reference – one is simply that go ahead and proceed – I think it’s a very clever idea finding out how much this will cost before completing the rest of the improvement – but please don’t open this until those improvements that have been promised are completed or in a case of an emergency. We already have emergency access being able to go out the top through the utility road. But it’s absolutely crucial that these improvements -. It’s not just traffic calming; the one illustration that Daryn showed us -. ARAI: Time. GIFFIN: Thank you, Bob. WARD: Thank you. GIFFIN: Brandon? I’m sorry. First, Commissioners, do you have any questions of the testimony, testifiers? None? Thank you. Brandon, could you please come forward. Do you want to come forward, too? I trust you heard all of the additional testimony today. GONZALEZ: I did, thank you. GIFFIN: And I don’t know, would you like to first address some of those concerns or do you want us to ask you some questions? GONZALEZ: I can address what I wrote down. First, I missed the gentleman that testified third, but his discussion about the roundabout, the engineer had informed me the roundabout was part of the report for the Ali‘i Parkway, Kahului-Keauhou Parkway intersection – so not down at the lower end. So thank you for clarifying that. For the first two public testifiers, the Lederers, again, for the phase that is not part of this application, but for the intersection at La‘aloa and Ali‘i Drive, we are planning to make the improvements in increasing the right-of-way -. GIFFIN: Oh, good. Shoulders? 12 EXHIBIT E