HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0349.158 2006-2008 My name is Bob Kovach.
I'm addressing what I judge to be the real problem here, not enough concern for
and involvement of citizens.
If you want to really appreciate the personal freedom and opportunities and
personal representation that we have here in the United States of America, go live
under other forms of government, as have Donna and I. Here we have the right to
make choices regarding issues that affect us.
But we don't quite yet have it together. The actions of our politicians are not to be
as an athletic performance for us to clap or boo as spectators. That's why it is so
important that the committee not act on any resolution or plan before it is taken
face-to-face to the citizens of KA'U for questioning and input.
For example, anyone who supports Punalu'u Black Sand Beach area as part of our
very fine National Park System sees it from the outside, as just a place, and has
not been there as one of us, on a Sunday, talking story, Kanikapila It would be
very obvious that being part of the NPS would keep most of us out of the area
altogether, catering mostly to paying visitors. If this is not so, then show me.
Ka'u is not a place, it is people. Punalu'u Black Sand Beach is not a place to be
admired, it is an experience, it is people, a melting pot of fisherman, students,
children, campers, haoles, hawaiians, kama'aina, retirees, visitors, those with little
or no money or lots of money a great leveler because none of those things
really matter. Nowhere have Donna and I seen anything like it. What does matter is
that they must be involved because it's their lives that are being affected by
outside forces.
Maybe if our concern was for peo Ike and their land we would each take our plan or
resolution to Ka'u and listen. Maybe we would be a part of the melting pot and find
what people think. Maybe we would both inform and involve. Maybe we would now
not have plans/resolutions supported through stirring of emotions, exaggerations
(obvious to the informed), and adversarial politics, a combination plan involving a
group that has said it does not matter what the Ka'u people want.
Let's have the order be the involvement of the people and THEN the request for
funds or not. I don't know what is best for Ka'u, but Ka'u does. At the bottom of
your letterhead stationery:
"Serving the Interests of the People of Our Island".
For the above reasons and those brought up by others today I respectfully ask
that you vote no on resolution 169-07 and, in the future, require that those whom
you serve be informed, involved, and listened to before funds are requested or
resolutions passed.
Sincerely,
Bob Kovach ~ 3 /Si
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