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From: Irene Eklund
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2021 7:22 AM
To: Council Testimony
Subject: Bill 44 3
Honorable Council Members
I am writing this response to Bill 44 on the County Council agenda for the June15,
meeting. I find it very disappointing that changes are being adopted to the current
building code, when the county is not enforcing the codes that already exist. Our HOA
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has been trying to get a meeting with those in charge of the Hawaii County Building
Department since early April to discuss this very issue, to no avail. We have also
requested a meeting with Mayor Roth regarding the same issues, with no response except 3
a computer generated response saying he would get back to us in a week or two, that was
months ago and still no response. I have a trail of emails where Hawaii Building
Department heads are cc:d and ask to respond, with not a response from one. Very 3
disappointing by those in charge.
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Again, why are you updating the building codes when you are not enforcing the ones you
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already have? When a building inspector goes to a building site and sees code violations i
but cannot red tag or stop construction until violations are corrected, something is wrong
with our system.
Since we cannot get answers from our local elected officials and our department heads,
maybe it is time to do what they did in Honolulu and bring in the State of Hawaii and the
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FBI to do an investigation of the Building Department. I am very disappointed and sad it
has come to this, as I expected better f rom those that represent us. 3
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Irene Eklund
Discovery Harbour
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Na'alehu, HI
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