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BANYAN DRIVE HAWAII REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
<br /> COUNTY OF HAWAII
<br /> MINUTES
<br /> March 28, 2018
<br /> The Banyan Drive Hawaii Redevelopment Agency met at 2:00 p.m. in the County of Hawaii,
<br /> Aupuni Center Conference Room, 101 Pauahi Street, Hilo, Hawaii, with Chairman Brian
<br /> DeLima presiding.
<br /> MEMBERS PRESENT: Brian DeLima(Chairman), Barry Taniguchi, and Sigmund Zane
<br /> MEMBERS ABSENT & EXCUSED: Nathan Gaddis and Elmer Gorospe
<br /> ALSO PRESENT: Michael Yee (Planning Director), Amy Self(Deputy Corporation Counsel
<br /> for the Agency), Jeffrey Darrow (Planning Division Manager), and Kim Tanaka(Secretary)
<br /> A quorum was present with three members in attendance.
<br /> STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC
<br /> There were 7 members of the public in attendance. At 2:00 p.m. Chairman DeLima opened the
<br /> floor to take statements from the public.
<br /> DELIMA: We'll take statements from the public. We have Donald Inouye who's passed out
<br /> statements, written testimony. Mr. Inouye, would you want to come and present your testimony?
<br /> You've handed it out, we've read it, but if you want to say anything more.
<br /> INOUYE: Yeah, I'm Don Inouye, president of the corporation Reeds Bay Resort Hotel on
<br /> Banyan Drive and the reason I handed this letter out was because there's certain things that been
<br /> bothering me in regards to the progress of things. And then I am on a month-to-month revocable
<br /> permit, and so all of these things kind of add up. And I was curious to know, not curious, but I
<br /> needed to know so I can make plans, future-wise for my business. Because being on a month-to-
<br /> month, that's uh, you know, very disturbing. And with no real guarantee of future because, after
<br /> all, I'm in the hotel business and we make reservations aheadI have reservations clear up to
<br /> December, and I've prepaid my monthly rent, we're up to December. Hopefully there'll be no
<br /> interruptions. And as you know, or maybe you don't know, since the fire in Honolulu on Marco
<br /> Polo, that kind of made all the counties come to attention and go out and do better inspections.
<br /> And I appreciated the inspection they did on my building, and I had, oh, many, many—you could
<br /> call them violations and not all were violations, but some of them were requests to improve on
<br /> some of the things that should have been done. And we've got pretty well all of them
<br /> underhand, but kind of hard if you have a building department you have to satisfy. I am on a fine
<br /> now of$1,000 and $1,000 a day because I haven't taken out enough permits. Now, you know,
<br /> when I got all of the notification, I did the things that had to do with safety first. And I figured,
<br /> well numbers are numbers, and the more I do better and now we're attacking the rest. I spent
<br /> upwards to almost $50,000 last year in trying to catch up on some of the so-called violations. I
<br /> expect to spend another $100,000 this year if I'm forced to. And I probably will go ahead and do
<br /> it because I look at the overall work that you've been doing here; accordingly I'm supposed to
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