07-03-2014, 05:50 AM
FYI,
From communicating with Marlene Hapai, who was head of the subcommittee mentioned in the report, and Noelani Whittington and Larry Brown at the county, I learned a few things:
This list was created by having a citizen subcommittee gather input from the public at one event, an annual Emergency Response Fair held in Keaau, and any other written input people chose to send, they plan to keep changing the list based on any new community input, but are not making a systematic effort to reach a broader sample of the Puna population for their opinions.
The county has a separate process using their own criteria (including level of opposition) to decide the actual feasibility of any proposed routes but has not done that for any of the routes.
There is no route across HPP shown on the map because the county does not want to deal with inevitable opposition to any route from the people who live there.
There is no funding for most of this and the cheapest routes with the least opposition will happen first.
Carol
From communicating with Marlene Hapai, who was head of the subcommittee mentioned in the report, and Noelani Whittington and Larry Brown at the county, I learned a few things:
This list was created by having a citizen subcommittee gather input from the public at one event, an annual Emergency Response Fair held in Keaau, and any other written input people chose to send, they plan to keep changing the list based on any new community input, but are not making a systematic effort to reach a broader sample of the Puna population for their opinions.
The county has a separate process using their own criteria (including level of opposition) to decide the actual feasibility of any proposed routes but has not done that for any of the routes.
There is no route across HPP shown on the map because the county does not want to deal with inevitable opposition to any route from the people who live there.
There is no funding for most of this and the cheapest routes with the least opposition will happen first.
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
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Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb