2013-12-05 Windward Transcript - Ocean View

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and stuff. And I don’t know if that’s one of the conditions or not, but that’s just my personal feeling. PEEBLE: And I follow you entirely. If we had 100 vendors paying $20 a piece, there would be no issue. We have a community that doesn’t have much money. We have a community that’s struggling, they have a hard time pulling $15 out. This is not high society as you look at it. This is a community. It’s a community event. I would like to invite all of you to go to the next swap meet. Go see what really is going on. Okay? I would invite you to do that. Then make your decision on what you think. If we hire more people, we raise the rates. However it’s, again, you have a private roadway, okay? This is a private roadway. It’s not a public roadway. We have the same issues worst being raised here in the town of Nā‘ālehu on Māmalahoa Highway. Okay? I don’t know how to enforce a private roadway standard. Now I have a letter here of what we did before, if you would care to see it. When we went to the meeting, in fact they thanked us, oh, you’ve done everything you could possibly do, and they were going to kokua and come in and work with the community. We did our end, they didn’t do theirs. I don’t have a solution other than do we hire somebody Every week? Then we have to raise the prices to the vendors. And I understand your concerns and all that. They’ve been mine. But when I have the Police Department and the Fire Department tell me that there isn’t an issue, what do you want me to do? I really don’t understand. And if that is the main issue, parking on the side of the road and people going across the road, what are we going to do with the rest of the town from Wai‘ōhinu all the way through? Do we, every time there is an event, the church has a funeral, we have to hire police officers to come to, on the main road of traffic, people walking across the road? I mean I’m really, I’m serious about this. I don’t really know, cause this exists all through our entire area on the main highway. This is just a sub-road in a subdivision that has another entrance that not one resident even needs to go by this place if they don’t want to. MOSES: Excuse me, Bill. Isn’t that the difference, the difference between the private versus the County, the highway? The police have authority on there but not on the private roads. So there is a difference there. And yours is on a weekly basis. And so if, all I’m saying is that, and I agree with Commissioner Henkel in what Maku‘u does, that we have signage, appropriate signage, placed where parking should be, be implemented and put in, supervision. So it’s not only parking but it is safety. Yeah? And so if those things can be met definitely that would help in the situation in the complaints have been brought forth. PEEBLES: I would agree, I would agree with that. But I don’t, I’m going to have to take your guy’s direction because Dennis does tell people, they are moving. But what do you do with a resident that lives there that says, “They’re not going to tell me I can’t park here, it’s a private road.” Doesn’t this thing go to them? I mean we’re talking residents of this same area. How do I tell a resident to do something that they said they don’t have to do? Really what it comes down to is if there is a just a little more aloha and people talking to people. This has been going on for 6, 7 years. I had 100 people wanting to get a caravan and come down here cause they’re so upset that this, what they call nonsense is still going on. And I don’t want that, I don’t want people coming down and yelling. We’ve all been through those meetings. They’re nonproductive. A solution to it? You’re going to have to have the road committee, or the members whoever they 7 EXHIBIT B