Pool still closed,call the mayor or email

[Carey]

All I know is that during the last week of May, after Fissure 8 reactivated & the county knew that the reactivation included the less viscous Pu`uO`o lava, County officials scheduled 2 ill-fated openings... The opening of Pohoiki park for one day, Memorial Day...(with days of county crews cleaning & getting it ready for the opening....even as lava was traveling downhill from fissure 8 towards 4-corners...)

AND 2. the public announcement on Wed. May 30, that the Pahoa Pool would open on Friday June 1, as fissure 8 was raining tephra throughout Pahoa & all over the pool....
I did call them out on that bone-headed choice... all of the other community pools had activated a "cover the pool & do not run pumps" policy, in keeping with the COUNTY RECOMMENDATIONS for catchments during a fallout of volcanic material.... but our silly county administration planned on opening up the public pool, even while tephra was falling into the pool....

ETA: & yes, the they was the administrators, but also includes all of us that have not asked for better accountability from our elected officials.... so, yes, they IS us...

I do believe that any county department that would allow some bone-headed plan to supersede the requests of the trained professionals that run a program, like the pools, should be held accountable for their actions & should pay for their mistakes, OUT OF THEIR PUBLIC PAY..... but know that would never happen...
Who in this county would ever be held accountable... at most, it would be the underlings (in the case of the pool, I do know they did mention the problems of the opening the pool plan to their superiors... since I was volunteer, I was the one underling that could publicly address the stupidity of the plan to open the pool without jeopardizing my job....even then it took over a day for the bone-headed plan to be dropped...)

[2liveque]

You all speak like there is an expectation of expertise at the county level. Try again. The "county" so to speak are individuals like our Roxie Watljen, NON EXPERT county bureaucrats whose main charge is to save face and make it seem like she knows what she is talking about. Kinda reminds me of a Hilo version of Sarah Palin. County government is full of incompetency dressed to look good. And in many cases, the dressing is half-azz to say the least. The Pahoa pool could have very well been covered and protected. But at that time, the county had other priorities....um, like running a shelter, evacuations, policing, etc. The pool was the least of their worries. And it still remains as so. Yes, very boneheaded approach, but it is what it is. So life just sucks for a few regular pool patrons. It'll all be back to normal soon. (not soon enough for some folks).

[Carey]

If 2LQ had read up the post, there is an expectation to follow the the expertise the county has.... Roxie is not the expert on pool safely...

At the same time the pool was left uncovered, the county used its assets, both monetary & personnel, to open Pohoiki Park, for one day, as lava was trundling downhill towards 4-Corners....

This was a major undertaking, was the park had just had close-by lava flows (the ones you cross to now get to Pohoiki), AND they allowed ANY resident a placard, one that would get them through to all non-Leilani regulated roads.... that was a major use of time & effort & made the non-Leilani placard system less than useful.....

After the lava shut off access to Pohoiki on Monday, assets were directed, on Wednesday of the same week, to open the Pahoa Pool/ The pool had been closed because they needed the facility for the people in the shelters (these people were still in the shelters, in need of the facility, so that piece of the puzzling situation had not changed...) This included trying to clean & filter a shuttered pool, WHILE TEPHRA WAS FALLING ON INTO THE POOL....and making a nice crunchy layer on the pool deck...

[dan d]

Thanks for trying to clarify the issue Carey. I think some of da peps her on pw will see only there own kind of truth. I implore us all to take back even a smidge of controll over our super bloated administration. But good luck w dat. Lol not!

Any body go down to see how they are doin? Probably locked out so no loki looki.
Pribably got guards told specifically to turn away pw members. Maybe where disguise?

Dress like official w name tag or like bum asking for another free shower?
Can i join ur class this week please in hb?
Aloha
Dd


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[Carey]

I went after the pool class on WED - 1/2... the maintenance building doors were open (both sides...kinda odd), but could not rouse anyone.... so...
but it did not look like there was a crew there working that day,.... so....

[dan d]

Tks Carey,
I went There yesterday, only thing done so far was pressure wash outside, no date.
Dan


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[wecelli]

Any update on the progress with the pool?Thank you in advance.

[dan d]

Call and ask the mayor. Last weeek nada


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[dan d]

Pool is being filled as we speak.
Feel free to close this thread
Aloha


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[kalianna]

Well, hurray! Thanks for all your efforts to make this happen dan d, carey and others.