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Current roads boards use this "precedence" to justify refusing even to listen to efforts to provide connectivity information at their meetings. It is our understanding that the road linking FF and ER was part of the approved subdivision plan and that the successive boards blocking "their" side have been illegally compromising the rights of residents. A few Board members continue to display flagrant disregard for the repeatedly expressed wishes of residents, a clear example of the INTENTIONAL discrimination cited in the 1995/2017 Civil Rights Complaint.The specific individuals currently using subdivision resources to block the Kaleponi/Punahele (Road 17) connectivity site are denying FF and ER residents their basic Civil Rights, including those rights expanded to people with disabilities in the Americans with Disabilities Act. eomplainy,*kembers of the Connectivity Action Team are following up with a Police Report and a Civil Defense complaint filed after Bill Watkins and Ken Gryde had the rusty debris that had been removed by hand, along with a van full of debris, bulldozed back onto the road. CAT members have thanked Jen Ruggles for her strong support for the resolution urging the funding to be released prior to the expiration date, June 30. Thanks also go to Eileen Ohara and Valerie Poindexter for supporting the resolution when other Council members were more concerned about the County's relationship with the DOT than about implementing the PCDP. Thanks so much to Jen, Eileen, and Valerie for being responsive to the decades -long pleas of Puna residents who have no (or very limited) access to County services in general and to transportation funds in particular. Contact Hannah Hedrick, 808 968-7013, 812 249-8248, hedrickhneca@aol.com if you are interested in promoting implementation of the PCDP priorities related to inter -subdivision connectivity. CAT members have cleared an area for a Community Pavilion at the FF/ER site. In addition to contacting Civil Defense and fire and police departments, CAT member are contacting other groups and connectivity in general and about developing a FF/ER inter - subdivision community gathering place, in accordance with the PCDP. Contacts will include Public Works Director Frank DeMarco about the "master plan to improve connectivity between Puna subdivisions." CAT hopes that Mr. DeMarco is now interacting with the PCD AC connectivity group and that, 9 years after the PCD PLAN was adopted as ordinance, departments are ready to move beyond the "physical plan or design" Mr. De Marco referred to in the March HTH. Warm regards, Hannah Hedrick Fern Forest