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PE3. 205-17
COMM. 221
Murashige, Laura COUNTY CLERK
COUNTY. OF NOAH
From: pahoatoday@gmail.com
Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2017 1:00 PM MAY '
To: 48
Poindexter,Valerie; Chung,Aaron; Lee Loy, Sue; Ohara, Eileen; Ruggles,Jennifer; David,
Maile; Kanuha, Dru; Eoff, Karen; letters@hawaiitribune-herald.com;
letters@staradvertiser.com;wht@aloha.net; news@civilbeat.com;Tiffany Edwards Hunt;
cohmayor@hawaiicounty.gov; Council Testimony; Planning Internet Mail; David
Corrigan
Subject: Puna residents and District 4 Rep bullied by rest of Hawaii County Council over Bias
Resolution
Dear Editor,
The Hawaii County Council has spoken.There is no bias against Puna. How dare Jen Ruggles propose such an idea, and if
she would only learn to kiss okole she would have a better chance to get her projects supported.
Taking a quick look at the mayor's proposed budget confirms that there is indeed bias against Puna: Of the 37 projects
totalling$173,906,000.00 stated in the Capital Projects Fund, only 1 is for Puna,a mere$20 million buh, or 11.5%of the •
total. Of the couple hundred pages in the budget, I could probably count the line items for Puna without even using all
my toes.
Puna's one capital improvement project requesting loan funding in the new budget is supposed to be a secondary access
road in and out of lower Puna. But there is a problem with that proposal because it comes up short and leaves everyone
in lower Puna trapped as there is only one road (Hwy 130) between Shower and Keaau.
A couple days ago, Highway 130 was closed for 8 hours while emergency crews respond to hit and run which burned
alive a dude in his car.The week before the road was closed for 3 hours for another accident. Two weeks before that it
was closed for hours, and so on. It is now confirmed in writing, and for the world to see, the State of Hawaii DOT and
Hawaii County are complicit in denying lower Puna secondary access, as well as emergency access.
How dare we complain? There's no bias here folks, move along... You losers in lower Puna can just sit in your cars
burning gas, paying increased gas taxes while you're at it. We don't care, because the way it is now you have to come
to Hilo work and to buy your stuff and we like taking your money. Ha ha ha.
With 80,000 subdivided lots in Puna alone (over half of the lots on the entire island) it would behoove you council
members to actually start thinking about our Puna districts for a change.
Stop making everything so difficult. It's so easy, even I can think of it. Shipman Estates can give Railroad back to the
people, at least from Shower to Keaau,and you can open the already existing road.
Thanks for your interest in this problem,
Sara Steiner
PO Box 2011
Pahoa, Hi 96778
(808) 936-9546 ern., N®. 411
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