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<br /> <br />Wil Okabe <br /> <br />Managing Director <br /> <br /> <br />Harry Kim <br />Mayor <br /> <br />Barbara J. Kossow <br /> Deputy Managing Director <br /> <br />County of Hawai‘i <br />Office of the Mayor <br />25 Aupuni Street, Suite 2603  Hilo, Hawai‘i 96720  (808) 961-8211  Fax (808) 961-6553 <br />KONA: 74-5044 Ane Keohokālole Hwy., Bldg C  Kailua-Kona, Hawai‘i 96740 <br />(808) 323-4444  Fax (808) 323-4440 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />December 18, 2018 <br /> <br />NEWS RELEASE <br /> <br /> <br />County Department of Public Works Director Resigns <br /> <br />Department of Public Works Director Allan Simeon has submitted his resignation from <br />the director position, effective January 31, 2019. He will remain at Public Works as an <br />engineer. <br /> <br />Mayor Harry Kim thanked and praised Simeon for his hard work during the two years <br />that he has led the Department, especially during the extremely challenging four-month <br />eruption in the Lower East Rift Zone. <br /> <br />“We are very grateful for all that Allan has done for the community,” the Mayor said. “He <br />took on a very difficult task and did good work. I know this job was hard on him and his <br />family.” <br /> <br />Simeon tendered his resignation as Public Works Director in a letter to the Mayor dated <br />December 14, 2018. “I would like to thank the nearly 400 hard-working DPW staff and <br />the countless County employees for their continued help and support,” Simeon wrote. <br /> <br />“I am very blessed, proud and privileged to be a County of Hawai‘i employee,” Simeon <br />said in his letter. <br />County of Hawai‘i is an Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer. <br />