02-23-2012, 03:22 AM
The people on the HPPOA Board who dealt with Fred Blas on the park had much stronger words than "manipulate" -- they dealt with falsity in statements from him.
It is interesting to note that the HPPOA Board voted for the park at the June 2011 meeting, and Fred was videotaped (on Big Island Video News) the day before that meeting at the opening of the new Pahoa transfer station saying of HPP and the park, "...it is their loss", even though the HPPOA board had already previously approved first steps toward the transfer of the land.
The pivotal and later vote to not proceed with the park came from a member new to the HPPOA board. This new board member reported that days prior to that second vote she had been in the Black Rock Cafe in Pahoa and heard Fred Blas trumpeting how he was going to take the park from HPP and put it in Pahoa.
At the January 17, 2012 meeting in Pahoa regarding the park there, Fred Blas explicitly stated that he wanted the park in Pahoa rather than "just one subdivision" (never mind the fact that subdivision has much higher population than Pahoa.)
It is interesting to note that the HPPOA Board voted for the park at the June 2011 meeting, and Fred was videotaped (on Big Island Video News) the day before that meeting at the opening of the new Pahoa transfer station saying of HPP and the park, "...it is their loss", even though the HPPOA board had already previously approved first steps toward the transfer of the land.
The pivotal and later vote to not proceed with the park came from a member new to the HPPOA board. This new board member reported that days prior to that second vote she had been in the Black Rock Cafe in Pahoa and heard Fred Blas trumpeting how he was going to take the park from HPP and put it in Pahoa.
At the January 17, 2012 meeting in Pahoa regarding the park there, Fred Blas explicitly stated that he wanted the park in Pahoa rather than "just one subdivision" (never mind the fact that subdivision has much higher population than Pahoa.)