06-13-2014, 02:53 AM
Thank you Peter E.
Moose- as soon as you make fees mandatory the only people that suffer are those least able to pay. $100 is nothing unless you are on SSI. Neither is it $100 a year. if you are poor it is $100 NOW. Don't have $100 this week that you don't know what to do with? OK, next week then? No? What about the week after that? This is reality for most of the residents here. In fact, This is the reality for most people everywhere. Those who have tried to own their own home, whose interest rates shot through the roof, or lost jobs, retired, got sick, etc. now risk loosing all they ever had to the road committee??
So what's the solution? This is. A mix of volunteer actions and income. Involvement from the community. People are in fact remarkably generous given the opportunity. We should all be automatic members of The community association and donations should be encouraged. I think it is a marvelous idea to sell Internet access and there are other ways of raising revenue. The problem of the roads is not of our making. That has come as a result of inappropriate land sales. A housing estate with no infrastructure that is not even zoned as a housing estate. Not that I'm not grateful. All these estates seem to be suffering equally and there are even some that have also become the subject of court cases. All the time the conversations revolve around money instead of community responsibility and aloha we will continue with this blame game.
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Moose- as soon as you make fees mandatory the only people that suffer are those least able to pay. $100 is nothing unless you are on SSI. Neither is it $100 a year. if you are poor it is $100 NOW. Don't have $100 this week that you don't know what to do with? OK, next week then? No? What about the week after that? This is reality for most of the residents here. In fact, This is the reality for most people everywhere. Those who have tried to own their own home, whose interest rates shot through the roof, or lost jobs, retired, got sick, etc. now risk loosing all they ever had to the road committee??
So what's the solution? This is. A mix of volunteer actions and income. Involvement from the community. People are in fact remarkably generous given the opportunity. We should all be automatic members of The community association and donations should be encouraged. I think it is a marvelous idea to sell Internet access and there are other ways of raising revenue. The problem of the roads is not of our making. That has come as a result of inappropriate land sales. A housing estate with no infrastructure that is not even zoned as a housing estate. Not that I'm not grateful. All these estates seem to be suffering equally and there are even some that have also become the subject of court cases. All the time the conversations revolve around money instead of community responsibility and aloha we will continue with this blame game.
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