01-22-2020, 04:32 AM
As a stakeholder in HPP about to shell out $360 for another year of this bickering, I hope the court action produces some sort of way forward. Unfortunately, Judge Nakamura, who has a history with HPP, retired before matters could be resolved. A new judge will not have the full knowledge of the 1997 receivership that Nakamura had, and I fear the result will be a limited period of adult supervision followed by a return to self rule. If there's anything the history of HPP proves, it is the fact that it is utterly incapable of self government under the model the county allowed to be set up. Patching together a slightly reformed version of that model won't help.
Meanwhile, the recent rains have reduced many of our roads to crater land. This was a chronic problem when we had a functioning and less contentious board, but I don't know what to expect any more. If the GM and board president have imposed some sort of dictatorship as some claim, then this is a test of whether such a model lacking a "meddlesome" board works. I suspect it will not, but we'll see, won't we?
Meanwhile, the recent rains have reduced many of our roads to crater land. This was a chronic problem when we had a functioning and less contentious board, but I don't know what to expect any more. If the GM and board president have imposed some sort of dictatorship as some claim, then this is a test of whether such a model lacking a "meddlesome" board works. I suspect it will not, but we'll see, won't we?