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Home My WebLink AboutCOM 0951.000 1996-1998 Mr.Yagong July 29, 1998 TO: Senator Daniel Inouye Mayor Stephen Yamashiro Hawai'i County Council Members( From: Anita Basque Joseph A. Basque L- RE: Sewer Line Exemption TMK: 2-2-35:12 Anita, my mother, is 78 and the property owner. Her husband John, my father, died November 1980. Anita's only income is social security $702 per month. I am her care-giver. Two houses are on the property. The front house is her home. The rear home is a 600 square foot cottage; no one lives in it; it was a cottage for Anita's parents. When they died the cottage has remained empty. It has no kitchen; no hot water. On occasion when mainland family members visit, they stay at the cottage for a week or two, at the most. Repealing the sewer line exemption has serious consequences for Anita. It's obvious she is unable to finance the hook-up. In September 1991 James Glover estmated the hook- up cost at $32,575. Isemoto Contracting, who at that time was installing the main sewer line along Kalanikoa, offered a verbal estimate of approximately $31,000. Today, the cost would be higher. Even if Arita mortaged her property to pay the hook-up cost, she could not meet the monthly mortage payments. A further hardship is the County's notice to begin assessing her a sewer fee of $25 per month beginning September 1998. Now, she is stressed with financial worry as to where the $300 yearly fee will come from. She's abandoning hope that the property she has called home for over 50 vears and that she and dad struggled so long and worked so hard to call their own will be lost. She knows in her heart that if the County Council repeals the sewer line exemption the County will place a lien on the property and she will lose her home. That act will Q be the crushing blow; the end will quickly follow. ' N+•--eCJLC,.--I-_--.. The ethical and moral responsibility is yours. ENC: Sewer Line Exemption Letter date 9/27/91 AUG I s 1998 James Glover, Ltd Sewer Line hoop-up estimate date 9/2G/9I Lorraine R. Inouye Mayor Bruce C. McClure w' Chief Engineer JNTV °I Laurence E. Capellas Department of Public Works Deputy Chief Engineer 25 Aupuni Street, Room 202 • HIlo, Hawaii 96720 • (808) 961-8321 Fax (808) 969-7138 September 27,. 1991 Mr. Joseph Basque 568 Kalanikoa Street Hilo, Hawaii 96720 SUBJECT: ACCESSIBILITY TO SEWER TMK: 2-2-35:12 We have checked the accessibility to sewer for the residential home located at TMK: 2-2-35:12 and find that the subject parcel cannot be sewered by gravity flow based on a slope of 1/4-inch/foot. County Code exempts connection to lots which are located below the level of sewer and would require installation of a pump to lift the sewage to proper elevation for discharge into the sewer. State Department of Health requirement may pre-empt the County Code. A~`YA HAROLD UGIYAMA Wastewater Division QUOTATION DATE SEPT. 20, 1991 JASe We a GLOVER, LTD. LICENSE NO. ABC-3 GENERAL CONTRACTOR 890 LEILANI ST. PHONE(808)S35-0871 HILO. HAWAII 96720 TO: JOSEPH BASQUE FAX(8)8)961-9237 568 KALANIKOA STREET ADDRESS: HILO, HAWAII 96720 ATTENTION: DESCRIPTION INSTALL SEWER LATERAL FROM PROPERTY LINE TO 2-EXISTING RESIDENCES (APPROX. 346 LIN. FT.) $32,575.00/LUMP SUM CONDITIONS , 1. REFER TO THE ATTACHED SKETCH. 2. REPAIR OF YARD AND LANDSCAPING IS NOT INCLUDED. 3. WORK MAY BE DONE ON A COST PLUS BASIS, IF DESIRED. 4. ESTIMATE IS BASED UPON EXCAVATION IN PAHOEHOE LAVA. THE ABOVE PROPOSAL WILL BE FIRM FOR 60 DAYS FROM THE ABOVE DATE. THIS PROPOSAL WILL BE HONORED UPON OUR RECEIPT OF A WATTTFj.T arrFVmF*?CE ',P;T' PTJRCHF.SE ORET1MR OR (N) CONTRACT. PLEASE SIGN THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT COPY AND SEND IT ALONG WITH YOUR PURCHASE ORDER OR (SUB)CONTRACT TO JAS. W. GLOVER, LTD. 890 LEILANI STREET, HILO, HAWAII 96720. JAS. W. GLOVER, LTD. EWRON,oFIJJ.;;ff0T0 VICE-PRESIDENT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This proposal is hereby accepted upon the terms and conditions set forth herein. By 610YE9 Date CRUSHED ROCK • CONCRETE • PAVING CONCRETE BLOCK • ASPHALTIC CONCRETE PRESTRESS PRECAST All Quotations Subject to the Conditions Herein and on Reverse Side of Sheet j~ ~ E`X~STING. I r) tit I Z ~ f. X t -141 ' (ZETW'6~ ~(1Y.ITE~ ~ w~a i r : Ilk 4 w bclSf~NCe q~ e - LAmw ~~6~CCNGE p~ D ~ n P ~ - F S /u W i; CoG.oWIRT~ Trm 71;-C 4 14 OA STREET Mt~t.1Kd.