02-24-2012, 01:45 PM
Thanks for the heads up.
What one may think if this might depend on what opinion one might have of DHHL. Having dealt with DHHL on Maui and Oahu and watching them locally my opinion of DHHL is pretty low.
The State of Hawaii has made it's intention pretty clear on wanting to expand development geothermal electric resources on the Big Island. This bill is right up front in wanting to reduce our county's share of the royalties..... and for some unexplained reason our Planning Director - Bobby Leithead Todd seems rather willing to go along with this.
Leithead-Todd makes some complaint about reducing the flow of money to the Puna Relocation and Community Benefit Fund. I may be wrong but as I understand it the $50k annual payment to that fund is separate from the county's share of the royalties.
Either way Puna and/or our county get screwed.
This screwing seems to be under the auspices of benefiting our Hawaiian population by increasing funding to DHHL. Attractive on the surface but DHHL has performed so miserably in meeting the needs of our local Hawaiian families I don't think shoveling more money at them will help anyone on the local level - and I mean on all the islands.
A lot is going on here that doesn't meet the eye or pass the smell test in my opinion.
What one may think if this might depend on what opinion one might have of DHHL. Having dealt with DHHL on Maui and Oahu and watching them locally my opinion of DHHL is pretty low.
The State of Hawaii has made it's intention pretty clear on wanting to expand development geothermal electric resources on the Big Island. This bill is right up front in wanting to reduce our county's share of the royalties..... and for some unexplained reason our Planning Director - Bobby Leithead Todd seems rather willing to go along with this.
Leithead-Todd makes some complaint about reducing the flow of money to the Puna Relocation and Community Benefit Fund. I may be wrong but as I understand it the $50k annual payment to that fund is separate from the county's share of the royalties.
Either way Puna and/or our county get screwed.
This screwing seems to be under the auspices of benefiting our Hawaiian population by increasing funding to DHHL. Attractive on the surface but DHHL has performed so miserably in meeting the needs of our local Hawaiian families I don't think shoveling more money at them will help anyone on the local level - and I mean on all the islands.
A lot is going on here that doesn't meet the eye or pass the smell test in my opinion.
Assume the best and ask questions.
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