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From: Roberta Brashear [brashear@hawaii.edu] 201
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 10:44 AM cC t N5. P
To: counciltestimony @co.hawaii.hi.us '- OU
Subject: Testimony in SUPPORT of RESOLUTION # 321 -10 FUEL TAX GRANT IN AID PROGRAM
Attachments: County Council - Roberta -Fuel tax.doc
TESTIMONY ATTACHED FROM Roberta Brashear - Kaulfers
4/19/2010
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J. Yoshimoto, County Council Chairman
Hawaii County Council Representatives
25 Aupuni Street
Hawaii County Council
Hilo, Hawaii 96720
April 18, 2010
Dear Councilman Chair J. Yoshimoto and Hawaii County Council Members:
I applaud you for efforts to introduce and pass Resolution # 321 -10 authorizing
the Hawaii County Council to designate a portion of the District's Fuel Tax Allocation to
be utilized for Grant —In -Aid program for non - Profit Organizations for the purpose of
Road Maintenance for Private streets and Roadways. This would allow our Hawaiian
Acres subdivision to apply for "Grant -In -Aid" funding from the Hawaii Fuel tax fund.
I am writing to express my SUPPORT for the Fuel Tax Revenue Grant -In -Aid
program resolution now at council. I have lived in Hawaiian Acres subdivision, which
has over 4000 lots, since 1990 and have watched our roads deteriorate to a state worse
than that of war -torn Iraq. We do not have mandatory roads dues and this program would
allow us to apply for road improvement funds to make our roads safer and more
comparable to those in Hilo. Our roads are in desperate need of attention; they are public
access roads and not part of a gated community.
We pay our fuel taxes every day as we drive in Hawaii County, but for decades
have received no benefits on hundreds of miles of county sanctioned private road
systems. One Road in Hawaiian Acres is in such disrepair due to lack of funding, that the
Department of Education (DOE) has threatened to discontinue bus service necessary for
picking up and dropping off the students living in Hawaiian Acres.
This in an issue of equity and I look to you to VOTE IN FAVOR of this
Resolution to provide this Grant -In -Aid program from the Hawaii District Fuel Tax fund.
Mahalo nui loa,
Roberta Brashear - Kaulfers
Hawaiian Acres Resident
Former President - Hawaiian Acres Community Association