Allan Kaneshiro to Mayor Kim

Aloha Mayor Kim:

After all these years how can your administration and the County Counsel
of Hawaii come up with your solution to Hilo's trash problem; truck
trash from East Hawaii to West Hawaii? We don't want your trash! East
Hawaii has ample land and sites to relocate a dump site in East Hawaii
at a lower cost rather than trucking all that smelly stuff through
Kohala and on to the already congested Queen K highway.

This new effort to solve the trash problem will cost in the millions and
contrary to your thought that this movement of trash is a temporary one
I'd bet a Million that this would not be the case. We in West Hawaii
have seen too much of the ineptness of our local government to solve
it's logistical and financial problem by abusing and draining income
from us to support capital improvements in East Hawaii and give us
little but more development and more congestion and miles and miles of
backed up traffic all day long and seven days a week.

We need from you, the County Counsel, and the government in Honolulu to
see the plight we are in - too much crime, congested highways, lack of
public transportation, lack of schools, poorly designed vehicular
traffic controls, too much development without adequate infrastructure,
and finally poor government concern and action when developers fail to
follow through as promised and the tab is passed on to the tax payer.

Visitors and residences are calling for a solution to this neglectful
attitude and are disturbed to the point of calling for a separate
county, West Hawaii! I know this effort will be blocked by all in power
and I know if a separate county is achieved it will be a long time from
now so, what are you doing to speed up the inter island ferry? I wish to
leave this once paradise island for greener pastures on another – we pay
the most for everything, pay the highest in taxes of all the islands and
any state in US and get too little of anything positive.

Mahalo,
Allan Kaneshiro
Kailua-Kona