HPP General Membership Meeting this Sunday

[davidr]

I am admittedly a new HPP owner and therefore new to Puna/Hawaii politics, but I was at the member meeting Sunday and after seeing the number of people in attendance and realizing the number of homeowners that the board represents plus the millions of dollars that are in the treasury and continue to come into the treasury, I began to realize that we are no typical homeowners association. My perspective is that we have grown in to a small municipality. There are a huge number of municipalities on the mainland that are much smaller than we are and most of them are governed under city or town charters. Does anyone know the benefits of incorporating as a town or village? Perhaps we would have our own police force and qualify for federal/state/county funds? I'm pretty sure this idea must have come up before but I think it may be time to revisit it. It seems less likely that the Department of Health would be bringing a lawsuit against a village or town rather than a subdivision.