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How many examples can we find? Today's "news":
http://hawaiitribune-herald.com/news/loc...-its-fleet
23 passenger vehicles ("cars, vans, pickups and SUVs") at a total cost of $690K works out to $30K each, for "used cars purchased from state surplus and a local auto auction".
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So good at finding the problems, yet I never hear any solutions from you.
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question...Does the County Council have any oversight on stuff like this? If so...What do the crop of folks running for election think on this subject?
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So good at finding the problems, yet I never hear any solutions from you.
Still working on that end; there are no "easy" solutions, all I have so far is...
- Working within the system: elect a clean slate of government officials in-place, as with the Free State project in New Hampshire.
- Seceding from the system: work diligently to starve the existing government of funds until it collapses under the weight of its own obligations.
Unfortunately, either of these only work if everyone can agree on the problem scope, but if the constituents were thus united, many of the problems would already be eliminated.
Does the County Council have any oversight on stuff like this?
Probably not, but even if they did, they would probably fail to take action. As I've already pointed out, Council seems to spend the bulk of their time approving budgetary line-items and upzoning property in town.
This is how you end up with things like $57M of debt for a park that's probably only worth $30M. Maybe in a few years we'll find out where that money went -- and the "problem" won't be how funds were misused, it will be that "people found out", just like that property tax issue on Maui.
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Originally posted by kalakoa
[i] As I've already pointed out, Council seems to spend the bulk of their time approving budgetary line-items and upzoning property in town.
I would only add that they also spend a lot of time debating and passing meaningless GMO legislation that will cost plenty to defend and still be struck down by entities further up the government food chain.
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Buying used vehicles to replace vehicles with over 200,000 miles on them is hardly waste, fraud and abuse. Not only that, the number of vehicles being bought are much lower than when Harry Kim was buying many more brand new. And the old county vehicles are being sold off at auction, as is. Seriously dude, go back to school and somehow get over whatever huge chip you have on your shoulder and learn how to read with understanding.
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Buying used vehicles to replace vehicles with over 200,000 miles on them is hardly waste, fraud and abuse.
On that point, I agree. That said, $30K for a USED car seems a little much; they could have bought brand new cars for the money spent.
