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REPORT OF THE <br /> COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS AND PARKS <br /> DATE: June 2, 1998 RE: COMM. NO. 841 /BILL NO. 245 <br /> PLACE: Councilroom <br /> TIME: 9:07 a.m. <br /> Chair and Members <br /> Hawaii County Council <br /> Hilo, Hawaii 96720 <br /> Your Committee on Public Works and Parks, to which was referred Communication No. 841, <br /> and attached Bill No. 245, reports as follows: <br /> The purpose of Bill No. 245 is to amend Chapter 24, Article ]0, Division 1, Section 24-255, <br /> Schedule 3 (25 mile per hour limit), subsection (c), and Section 24-257, Schedule 5 (35 mile per <br /> hour limit), subsection (c), of the Hawaii County Code 1983 (1995 Edition). <br /> Communication No. 841 is a letter dated April 30, 1998 from Chief Engineer Donna Fay K. <br /> Kiyosaki, of the Department of Public Works, requesting to amend the Hawaii County Code, <br /> Chapter 24, Article 10 to reduce the existing 35 miles per hour speed limit to 25 miles per hour on <br /> Waianuenue Avenue, from Waiau Street to the Piihonua Bridge (No. 25-2) in Piihonua Camp 3. <br /> Ms. Kiyosaki states that a speed study consisting of trial runs was conducted and found 25 miles <br /> per hour to be a reasonable speed for this section of Waianuenue Avenue. Ms. Kiyosaki also informs <br /> that the narrow shoulders with open ditch at various locations limit lateral clearance for accident <br /> avoidance maneuvers. <br /> Your Committee is in accord with the purpose and intent of Bill No. 245, and recommends that it <br /> pass first reading. <br /> la I <br /> AYES NOES A&E EX Respectfully submitted <br /> <br /> YAGONG X CO ITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS & PARKS <br /> REYNOLDS X <br /> <br /> CHUNG X <br /> <br /> LEITHEAD-TODD X DOM[NIC YAG ~IR <br /> <br /> RAY X <br /> SANTANGELO X PW&PC RE 104 <br /> SMITH X <br /> ARAKAKI E.O.M. ADOPTED: -FILED - 06/16/98 <br /> <br />