Hilo's dump plan? Letter to the Editor

Ok so let me see if I have this correct. The Hilo dump has been filling up for years and the government just decided they need to make a plan! They want to (but has not been done yet) redesign the Hilo dump so it will last a few more years and then what? No plan or thought of looking for another location for the Hilo dump on the east side? Why? Then they will have the tax payers make a down payment of 7 million dollars to buy a County owned and run sort station. This sort station will sort out some of the trash, but not all of the trash and then what? Send the rest to Kona? “No” the Mayor said that won’t happen. Ok so let’s pay thousands of tax payer dollars to ship Hilo’s trash to the mainland. Gee sure makes me feel good my tax dollars are hard at work. No wonder we want to split the island in two Counties.
Unfortunately the island is already split in numerous pieces. The Planning Department doing its own thing, the Water Department doing its own thing, the County Council doing its own thing, The Police Department doing its own thing, The Fire Department doing its own thing. None of them seem to be on the same page with respect to the future of this island. Not much communicating on current projects to keep them moving.
How do we fix this mess? No one is happy with the way things are running. But this sort of thing will continue to happen if we don’t vote in Candidates that are either educated or trained in Management. Accountability is missing. Consistency is missing. Planning with completion is missing. The next study we need is an audit of each department in the County. Correcting the departments that have been miss managed would probably save the tax payers tons of money. This would cut down on the lawsuits of unfair hiring practices, unfair promotional practices, and government waste in spending.
It takes involvement by all of the tax payers. Going to meetings and making a difference is the only way to make real changes. All this complaining is sure easy to do. But to fix it takes some genuine commitment and elbow grease.
Susan McGeachy