HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0018.006 2022-2024 From: Simmy
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2023 9:15 AM
To: Council Testimony
Subject: Fwd: Oppose Alii Highway Bill 3 and 4 County Council meeting December 4, 2023
Attachments: Kuakini Highway Traffic jpg
Aloha County Council,
Bill 3 and 4 on your agenda of January 4, 2023.
1 would like to comment to oppose the long planned Ali'i Highway
The location is within the Special Management Area and Several Historic Districts.
Iwi Kupuna and archaeology sites are huge concerns, and in the past, several occasions the county attempted to build,
and since 2005 it was turned down.
Many Kupuna and lineal descendant who strongly opposed to protect these Sacred Iwi Kupuna have passed away.
They are no longer here to speak out, I will on behalf of their wishes and will continue to pray on these lands with our
ancestors. Specifically,Aunty Lily Haanio Kong, Willy Kahulamu, and Keawe KKK Alapa'i.
October 2019,the Kona Community Development Planning Action Committee was tasked with this, and Keawe Alapa'i,
Mikahala Roy, and me testified live in opposition.
I have the live testimonies on video, but it's too big a file to upload.
Thousands of Burials noted in testimony, Hawai'i Island Burial Council in 2000, it was voted down.
Discussions with past members of the Hawai' Island Burial Council ( 1992-1993) �
The cost when stopped in 2005 to build was$50 million dollars, today the cost is$250 million.
I would like to suggest the priority top of your list to be the expanding of the Kuakini Highway.
Mahalo, -TJX
Mit
Simmy McMichael
Kailua Kona
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