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From: Daniel Bona
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2021 10:34 AM
To: Council Testimony
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Subject: Bill 44 Written testimony August 18th, 2021
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Aloha Council members,
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I need to ask how was it possible (because of Covid)to easily put of the implementation of the 2012 Building code for Bill 179
last year
(while still passing UN-reviewed Administrative rules part that was full of errors and omissions)
But it is not possible to do a prudent due diligence before rushing to pass Bill 44 because of some fake deadline?
The Covid situation is not any better, in many ways it is worse.
As a result, you should have latitude to review all amendments, and tackle this Bill correctly by giving it more time.
A horrible and complicated code was passed in 2012 with many assurances that there would be many amendments to fix the
multitude of errors found AFTER the bill was passed.
But in 9 years, there were no amendments ever brought to vote. (council blamed the Building division, and Building division
blamed the Council) i
DO not let this happen again.
Can you force the Building division to Work with the Design community ahead of you voting on amendments?
The present ones before you were written by engineers with zero practical real world building experience?
In February, Ikaika Rodenhurst said he was looking forward to working with the design community before the Amendments were
given to the County Council.
After many follow up emails I received a response in early May, from Neil Erickson stating "Your feedback is valuable, so I hope
that these issues can be addressed when brought before the Council"and he forwarded that email to EVERYONE.
After many more follow ups, I received a Copy of a letter from Neal Tanaka to David Yamamoto on June 30th, forwarding my
requested amendments.
But in that email Mr. Tanaka Tells Mr. Yamamoto, "being that the first Council reading of Bill 44 is Wednesday, I don't see how
we can draft up an amendment before that meeting. To that end, I am not convinced they need to be specifically included in the
code."
Please read that last part again, He does not says it should not be included, He says that we Do not have time to do it right!
Who is at fault that there is no time to do it right?
Why is the County Council OK with normalizing inefficiency and Laziness of County departments?
Please Work with the Mayor and the Governor and do what is right.
No one is going to Sue the County if the Building code changes 2 or three months later than scheduled.
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It will actually be much more of a disruption to have plans reviewed under a new building code, but the same plans reviewed
differently a month or two later after necessary amendments are finally added legally.
Does the Legal Term Arbitrary and Capricious not mean anything to anyone?
Mahalo for your time,
Daniel Bona
Bona Design
Cosmo o.
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