Letters to the Mayor:

Dear Mayor Kim,

While I have supported you on numerous issues, I urge you to reconsider your position on the trash / landfill issue. I see no good reason for the taxpayers to finance a sort station when a private company has offered an option that will cost us taxpayers little to nothing.

I also urge you to adopt the Alii Parkway realignment as it currently stands and not step backwards by doing another study. There is no time. We need immediate action. I am also very disappointed to hear that Bruce McClure claimed Kona drivers " suck ". That is completely inappropriate and fuels the discontention that the west side of our county has with the east.

I am confident that you have the best intentions for the entire county and hope that you will make the right decisions.

With aloha, Charles Lipps Jr. / Holualoa

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Dear Mayor Kim:

The west side of the Big Island does not need nor deserve the accumulated trash from the east side of the island! Do whatever is necessary to keep more trucks off our congested cross-island roads! Do whatever it takes to keep out-of-area trash out of our local trash site in the makai Waikoloa area!
Our roads are already congested. They are taking a continual beating (resulting in pot holes and torn road surfaces) from the quarry trucks and cement trucks coming onto them from both Waikoloa Road and Mamalahoa Highway. We implore you to take advantage of the technology that would keep Hilo trash in Hilo!
Should you continue to pursue that route of transporting Hilo trash to Waikoloa, I can only surmise that 1) you like our tax monies, and 2) you give us garbage for it! Sounds like you really do not give a hoot for your west side constituency and that literally stinks!
The issue is not simply resolved but surely there must be a "kinder and gentler" resolution than what we are currently hearing from the County Administrative offices!
Mahalo for efforts on behalf of ALL those who call the Big Island home.
Regards, Marjorie Mrasek

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Hon. Mayor,
This is my plea for you to stop this gigantic ball from continuing to roll in the direction of Kona. Please find some way to keep your trash on the Hilo side. There is a wonderful offer that will not cost the taxpayer a cent, and that is with the Bio Energy-Pacific Waste Company. Turning waste to fuel makes the most sense for us here in Hawaii, and to wean us off of oil. Please reconsider this proposal.
Chuck Clark
Kailua Kona, HI

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NO HILO TRASH TRUCKED TO KONA! YOU PROMISED THIS WOULD NOT HAPPEN AT THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE LUNCHEON IN JANUARY AT KING KAM HOTEL.I REALIZE THIS IS AN INHERITED PROBLEM FROM THE LAST ADMINISTRATION, BUT LET'S HAVE A SOLUTION THAT WORKS FOR BOTH SIDES OF THE ISLAND.SINCERELY,JUDITH

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> Mr. Kim,
>
> I understand that there was a bid from Bio Energy-Pacific Waste to take
> over and recycle the Hilo trash into fuel. There will not be any cost to
the
> taxpayers.
>
> I also understand that you want an expensive sort station built by the tax
> payers to sort the trash and then send it to Kona.
>
> Please be sensible and look into the Bio Energy-Pacific Waste bid as the
> logical alternative to trucking trash to Kona.
>
> Also, you guys have soooooooooooooooooooooooooo much land over there that
> it's hard to believe you can't find a new place for your trash.
>
> I'd be interested in your comments.
>
>
> Warmest Aloha & Regards,
>
> Robert W. Avallone

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>> Sir:
>>
>> The impending importation or your garbage to my side of the island
>> is indeed the ONLY significant accomplishment of your term.
>>
>> How curious, you take your tax money income from us and ship us
>> garbage in return! Does there seem to be anything wrong with that
>> picture Mr. Mayor?
>>
>> I vote and I have watched your actions (I submit INACTION is a more
>> appropriate choice of words) and those of the county council very
>> very carefully since moving here.
> >
>> Respectfully,
>> L.T. King MD

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