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Murashige, Laura
From: bigislandpaul@gmail.com on behalf of Paul Kuykendall <paul@punapono.com>
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 11:38 AM
To: Council Testimony -
Subject: Testimony Opposed to Draft 1 of Bill 77
Aloha Council members,
I am writing to express my strong opposition to Bill 77. The ordinance governing the Geothermal Relocation
and Community Benefit fund already makes explicit the funds to be expended in supporttof the program. This
bill is a thinly disguised attempt to increase the draining of the fund for purposes other than it was intended.
Instead of looking for sly ways to drain the fund, the county should use the funds as they were intended and
agreed upon by the community: to actually relocate members of the community that are negatively affected by
PGV. The county has suspended the program with more than 30 homeowners on the waiting list. The money
in the fund is probably not sufficient to relocate all the citizens that are waiting, so it should not be siphoned off
for other purposes through budgeting sleight of hand.
Please consider supporting, rather than undermining those who are unfairly shouldering the burdens of
geothermal development in residential areas: the air and water poisoning when there are "unplanned releases",
the 24/7 operations noise; the jarring drilling noise, the light pollution.
Thank you for your consideration.
Paul Kuykendall
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