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<br /> <br /> <br /> REPORT OF THE <br /> COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS AND <br /> INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS <br /> <br /> DATE: September 15, 2009 Re: Comm. No. 507/13ill 138 <br /> PLACE: Council Chambers <br /> Ben Franklin Bldg, 2°d Floor <br /> 333 Kilauea Ave. <br /> Hilo, Hawaii 96720 <br /> TIME: 1:40 p.m. <br /> Council Chair and Members <br /> Hawaii County Council <br /> Hilo, Hawaii 96720 <br /> Your Committee on Public Works and Intergovernmental Relations, to which was referred <br /> Communication No. 507 and Bill 138, reports as follows: <br /> <br /> Bill 138, transmitted by Director of Public Works Warren H.W. Lee, via Communication <br /> No. 507, dated August 25, 2009, amends Chapter 24, article 10, division 1, section 24-254 <br /> (schedule 2. 20 mile per hour limit), paragraph (f), Kona, of the Hawaii County Code 1983 <br /> (2005 Edition, as amended), by adding the following subparagraph, to be appropriately numbered <br /> and to read as follows: <br /> <br /> "O Kealakaa Street in the school zone fronting Kealakehe Elementary <br /> School, from a point five hundred ninety feet north of Palani Road <br /> and extending one thousand six hundred forty feet in the northerly <br /> direction while speed limit sign beacons are flashing." <br /> There was no testimony from the public on this proposed bill. <br /> <br /> Traffic Division Chief Ron Thiel appeared before Your Committee. Mr. Thiel commented that this <br /> amendment is based on an effort to enhance driver awareness of the Kealakehe Elementary school zone. <br /> This will minimize risk to school children by modifying the traffic signage and school speed limit to 20 <br /> MPH on Kealakaa Street fronting the school. <br /> Your Committee on Public Works and Intergovernmental Relations is in accord with the purpose and <br /> intent of Bill 138 and recommends passage at first reading. <br /> <br /> dkr <br /> AYES NOES A&E EX Respectfully submitted, <br /> ENRIQUES X <br /> FORD X COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS AND <br /> GREENWELL X INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS <br /> HOFFMANN X <br /> 1KEDA <br /> NAEOLE X <br /> ONISHI X BRENDA J. FO IM, CHAIR <br /> YAGONG X PWIRC REPORT NO. 42 <br /> YOSHIMOTO X ADOPTED: OCT O 7 ~QOq <br />