aloha susan!
isn't the highway a state thing and not the county?thanks for mentioning the grass. how stupid. saw the sprinklers spewing at noon, and ed what in the hell these "planners" were thinking.mahalo! shannon
Yes Shannon, I can honestly say both the County and the State of Hawaii have yet to Build a road ON BUDGET AND ON TIME! why so slow! WHY! come on. Any where else in America any other State would have had that 4 miles of road done in what 6 months maybe a year. Honolulu would have had it done in 3 months. Is it the management? Is it the money? What the heck is it?
Is it the State's lack of planning? then they revise the contract after the origional bids? It ups the Union contractors to add in extras so it is bid plus (means BIG BUCKS for the Tax Payers). The Engineers and Architecs get paid Big bucks to redesign on top of the origional contract; which adds time and money to the contract? Into the project someone says Hey What about Water and they stop to rework the water line? oh yea. and maybe we should add the sewer line and the cost and revised and revised. Why didn't they sit down and go over all of the utilities and present it to the community for review and input. Maybe the State needs to hear from us?
What do you think?
Susan
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Hi Susan,
You raised some excellent points in your letter. I suggest also that you started the list of
"Here are Kona's Problems that could be fixed by A West Hawaii County."
Infrastructure Problems: Noth Kona's fire station. Connecting some of the dead end roads. Requiring all subdivision and commercial buildings and areas to have at least 2 access roads. We have only one road. All 'main roads' should be 4 lane. No more building within xxx feet of any main road. Start to buy/condeming buildings along the main roads so that they can be converted to four lane. Also. I suggest you let someone proof read you letters before they go out. ( I can help) There were a number or typos. Regards, Ben Collins
Thanks Ben, I do need help with typos and layout as well as formatting help for this blog too.
Susan
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I support everything you said above. Time for county managementchange, BIG TIME!!!!!Thank you,Harry Zola
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I agree with this letter by Susan McGeachy, aloha and mahalo,H. Chuck Clark
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Susan: Mahalo for sharing your message to the County. A couple of concerns: 1) Property tax valuations are not the same as property tax revenues, Although the property tax valuations in North Kona are the highest, the tax rates applied to those valuations may not result in the highest revenues because North Kona has a high percentage of owner-occupied homes, which are taxed at a low rate. South Kohala, on the other hand, has a great number of multi-million dollar homes that are not occupied by Hawaii County residents, and are therefore taxed at a much higher rate, resulting in higher revenues. 2) Railing at the county for the Queen Ka`ahumanu Highway delays, etc., is misguided. It's a State highway, and the State is responsible. Aloha, Joel Gimpel
Aloha Joel,
Thank you for responding. The property tax valuations I got from the County is the amounts that apprear on your assesment card. This does take into consideration the exemptions for age, disabled as well at the assed value of the property according to the County's records. North Kona has 19,000+ lots. Look at the attachement here and you will see the differences in assessed values as well as the number of lots in each district.
As for railing the County, I am sorry I did not mean to imply that the State was doing any better with the execution of our roads. Both apply to my letter. Both are neligent in completing a sucessful road on time or on budget.Both the County and State have failed the people of West Hawaii.
Aloha, Susan
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Susan, aloha,
I just read your latest communique to the County Council.
You should be aware of two things:
-Queen Ka'ahumanu Highway is a state project, usually primarily Federalfunds, not a County project. Very different areas of responsibility inthat the County has no involvement. If you have concerns about thatproject, it's Brennon Morioka, head of State Department of Transportation,who is the responsible party.
-the Ane Keohokolole Highway has a lot of great community support.Obviously you personally don't feel it will be of benefit, but many do, asit is indeed an alternative road to both Palani and Queen Ka'ahumanuHighway to get from Kailua-Kona to Kealakehe High, the new Countyheadquarters on the corner of Ane Keohokolole and Kealakehe Parkway, andCostco. Many feel it will be wonderful in reducing traffic congestiononce it's built. That was definitely my sense in attending the publicmeetings on the subject. In fact, the way you describe not having deadends, etc., you might take a look at the Ane Keohokolole plans, as iteliminates many of the current dead ends and provides significantconnectivity.
aloha, Sherry
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