01-22-2009, 07:42 AM
The proposal is a pilot program (guinea pig) to see how a municipal style local government would work outside of the County style island wide government structure. Because there are NO such entities on Hawaii, HPP was chosen (let's not experiment on the good places). What it entails is anyone’s guess. What style of self governing is anyone’s guess. What cost to the residents is anyone's guess. The proposal does include a town government with its own police and fires service, and probably its own parks and recreation, sanitation, administration, politicians, etc., etc. I’m sure they will look at mainland way of operating, but with so many different types, who knows what it will morph into. About the only thing that is known is that the process of designing a municipal government will take years and years.