WHT finally had an article about burials found by or in where the Ane Keohokalole highway is proposed to be built.Hopefully Hawaii County can adequately address these burials. However I still remain skeptical that this issue can be resolved in time for this project to qualify for federal economic stimulus funding.
I’m tired of people complaining that government workers are being unfairly targeted to balance the budget.Thus far the taxpayers, tourists visiting our state, and now executive branch employees will be sharing the burden to balance the State of Hawaii’s budget. Why can’t unionized government workers do the same ?
Lastly, this is the latest update I received in regards to the Grace Church situation on Palani Road.
“Aloha Aaron,
1. The temporary left-turn restriction into the church property is underway, and should be complete in a few days, weather permitting.
2. The NPDES permit is still being processed at DOH (Honolulu). We cannot start the turn lane itself until that permit is received. DOH has not given us a date for completion of their process.
3. As soon as the NPDES permit is received, and we have received the County permit to work in the roadway, we will proceed as quickly as possible.
Thanks for your continuing interest. We look forward to celebrating the completion of the turn lane in the very near future!
Blessings,
Gary Summers”
June 9th, 2009 at 9:30 PM
I agree with Aaron that government workers need to share the burden to balance the state budget… no question about that. The issue for me is what is the fair amount of reduction of employee pay/benefits and watching that those reductions be made in a way that least disrupts productivity. How much of a reduction in salary/benefits did the upper executive, legislative and judicial branches take? What about taking from the hurricane crisis fund? I think this economic meltdown is the equivalent of a hurricane crisis. And what about some revenue generating initiatives from Ms. Lingle? To date she has offered not one new money making initiative.
June 10th, 2009 at 10:31 AM
Sharing is not taking the whole load. If Lindy wanted to change the contracts, she should have said so in Jauary and worked with the legislature to do so, rathet than tgaking her strange stand-alone stance.
Talk about lack of transparcenty she so preached earky on before she hide the e-mail ol her former chief aid who used the state computers to hustle hookers in Manila.
There is no there there.