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Honorable Aaron Chung COUNTY v;- HAWAII
Council District 4
Dear Aaron,
Thank-you for your understanding and patience during the Irradiation
Facility processing. I am a small Hilo businessman. I have to take exception
to your voting "yes" on taxpayer funding of an Irradiation Facility.
Your "yes" vote clearly intends on placing the taxpayers of Hawaii
County in the Irradiation business. By voting "yes" on designing and planning
this Irradiation Facility, you clearly put the taxpayers of the County of Hawaii
in the "care, custody and control" of this facility. This will remain so regardless
rf the project is later partnered or sold. This is an awesome legacy.
One of the key tenets of business life is accountability. This
accountability starts in the planning process. The cornerstones of this
planning process area business plan, a marketing plan and a financing plan.
I understand the Mayor wants the last without the first two. Do you? These
planning phases are critical risk management phases. Who is to be
accountable for this Irradiation Facility? The Mayot? By your vote the County
of Hawaii taxpayers will be. Risky business.
By not properly undertaking the initial critical "green-light" phase of this
proposed Irradiation Facility in a "business-like manner," are you being
negligent on behalf of the taxpayers of Hawaii County? Does the archetypal
accountable "prudent man" of business act like this? I feel it's prudent that
the County of Hawaii should not be in the business of the Irradiation Facility
business. If private enterprise wants to irradiate let them propose the cobalt.
I am not an eco-terrorist. I am not a naysayer. I am concerned. I have
personally had property with hazardous waste removal. The Irradiation
Facility has the potential of being a hazardous waste site. Who will be
accountable? Isomedix with their $75,000 dollar insurance cap? You?
Irradiation Facility users by a pro-rated formula? Your vote "yes" says the
taxpayers of the County of Hawaii will be. That's not just green papaya.
Why did Mayor Yamashiro wait to bring this Irradiation Facility forward in
his final term? If he had brought it forward at any time in his first term do you
think he would have been reelected? Reelection is not the Mayor's fruit fly
problem. The Mayor's Irradiation Facility proposal is flawed. Just say "NO."
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