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<br />would like to work at it. But for me to work at it, I really have to get a rule book, or I have to be given, at least, something
<br />basic for me to work on, and refer to, so I really know what is the authority of the Police Commission. What is it that we can
<br />ask, shouldn’t ask, need to ask. Yes ma’am?
<br />IRVINE: I just wanted to say that I think we have suggested a Fire Commission which we copied, more or less, from the
<br />Honolulu County Charter. Their Police Commission is written up quite similarly to their Fire. I think it’s much more
<br />understandable and does explain better what the Commission’s supposed to do, and I’m certainly hoping that we’re going to
<br />be looking at that again.
<br />MOE: On this subject, I’d like to just say that I urge you to take another look at it, and don’t pass it by and say that’s it, I
<br />understood through the paper.
<br />RAY: John.
<br />SANTANGELO: Walter, I take it from your conversation, you were confirmed.
<br />MOE: I was at the County Council, and I was approved unanimously, I believe it was.
<br />SANTANGELO: Okay. So now you’re getting ready to serve on the Commission.
<br />MOE: So now I’m getting ready to serve on the Commission.
<br />SANTANGELO: I have this question. I’ve talked to past Commissioners and there’s been a whole plethora of opinions, but
<br />one that, kind of, was a thread through it all is sometimes they felt like they had been sentenced to a five-year sentence. What
<br />do you think of these Commissions being five years, and I meant to ask Councilman Tyler that and I forgot to, but what do
<br />you think about looking forward to five years?
<br />MOE: Well, I think five years really, it stresses it. I think after two, three years, you’d, kind of, say okay, I’ve done my duty
<br />to society and my community. Five years is a long time.
<br />SANTANGELO: Especially when you talk about participation, but thank you, Walter.
<br />MOE: But staggered terms, so there’s continuity within the Commission, is very important. Mr. Commissioner, would I be
<br />allowed to touch on another subject of passionate concern to myself?
<br />RAY: Sure.
<br />MOE: And that is substandard, nonconforming private subdivision. Do you Commissioners, every one of them, do you know
<br />what the meaning is of that?
<br />HERKES: Is that in the Charter?
<br />MOE: It is but it isn’t, no. It is on page 21, sort of, but I think, and I spent two years visiting with community associations,
<br />etc., and I had proposed a plan in 1997 to the Mayor, who asked me to prepare a plan on how we may solve the problem of
<br />the nonconforming, private, substandard subdivisions. We have 49 substandard, nonconforming, private subdivisions on this
<br />island. We have 42% of the people live in them, and in a very straightforward way, this can be argued. We are not entitled,
<br />by law, to receive within those communities, within those subdivisions, any assistance, any services from the County, by law.
<br />In other words, we are not allowed to receive a street light. We are not allowed to receive the paving of a road. We are not
<br />allowed to receive anything in these subdivisions, and we could go on for many hours in the details of this, but I will stop
<br />right there. What I’m saying to you, and what my fear is, and it has been interpreted like I’m threatening, or so on. I’m not.
<br />It’s the last thing I would like to do in my community, in the place I chose to live, and, most likely, probably die in this
<br />beautiful island here. My fear, if this is not being addressed, this elephant, according to our Chairman Arakaki - If this
<br />elephant of a problem, and the Mayor has concurred with me on this, and others - If this is not being addressed and dealt
<br />with, eventually this County will face millions and millions and millions of dollars of class action suit money, okay, because
<br />it will happen. And there are rumblings out there, and if you go and you visit these communities out there, why do we have
<br />an alienation in Hawaiian Acres, where people want to put up a cable and put rocks there? Why do we have the discontent on
<br />this island among our people, and why do we have all these? It’s because we have, through no fault of anyone of us, inherited
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