• The state can help • I actually agree with you • Exciting times • Aloha spirit still alive • LaBedz has vision The state can help While tourism, agriculture and construction are all down, there is another way to
• The state can help • I actually agree with you • Exciting times • Aloha spirit still alive • LaBedz has vision
The state can help
While tourism, agriculture and construction are all down, there is another way to create high paying jobs here.
The state requires all condo complexes to maintain and fund a reserve study which projects the dates and dollar amounts of upcoming repairs, and requires the owners to fund those studies on an ongoing basis.
By carrying out these maintenance and repair projects, especially for buildings that are twenty years old or more, condo boards will create high paying jobs that are unaffected by visitor arrivals.
Last year at Prince Kuhio for example, we pumped $850,000 into Kaua‘i’s economy for concrete repairs and tiling. This year we will spend another $75,000 in painting.
The state can help by ensuring that the condos are maintaining and funding their reserve studies. Condo board members, especially Kaua‘i residents, need to encourage their boards to overcome their economic fears and approve the spending on needed maintenance projects and creating jobs instead of just letting the funds sit in the banks.
John Patt, Koloa
I actually agree with you
For once I find myself agreeing with Mr. Glenn Mickens and with everything he says in his Sept. 6 letter “Hooser an excellent candidate for LG.”
I could not have said anything better — more factually, more logically and more convincingly — so much so that that I am pleased to repeat his conclusion for our Kaua‘i voters that…
Gary Hooser’s “representation of the people has been outstanding and that he would do the same job as our lieutenant governor.”
Now, how about joining me and other Hooser supporters at our next sign- waving Hooser event and help us remind our Kaua‘i voters to vote for Gary Hooser… our next lieutenant governor.
Alfred Laureta, Lihu‘e
Exciting times
Wow! Decisions, decisions, decisions!
There are choices to be made in the upcoming primary election that cautions voters not to jump from one party to the next in determining where votes may be cast.
Where required, one must vote along party lines, and where it is not, one can vote for whomever according the number(s) limited.
Sounds confusing? Well, it’s best to check with the people in charge if you can’t figure it out.
In Kaua‘i’s Senate race, two Democrats, two Republicans and two Independents will be vying for that seat, and only one from each designated “party” can make it to the general election.
This will be the “true test” of survival, as it may be, because it prohibits stacking the deck by having “the other guys from the other party” jam up the works!
This makes it exciting all the way around because we here on Kaua‘i can’t go vote-hopping ala the “bar-hopping” mentality! This will keep all of us on our toes and biting our nails, waiting for the results to come in!
Jose Bulatao Jr., Kekaha
Aloha spirit still alive
I have never written before but I felt this story was needed to be told. Two wonderful Kaua‘i people helped my daughter out of a horrible car accident by the Mahelona hill.
My daughter’s two tires blew out and she spun two times and hit the embankment. A wonderful lady who I can’t remember her name and a gentleman who’s first name is Michael took care of my daughter and two grandchildren till I arrived.
The aloha spirit is not dead here.
Two strangers lent a hand and a numerous others helped get the car off the road and direct traffic. The police officer was the most professional yet compassionate policeman I have met in a very long time. His name is Officer Relacion.
I would like to thank all the strangers who helped as well as a warm aloha and God bless to Michael and the lady and Relacion for their help and compassion.
Sherri Cole, Kapa‘a
LaBedz has vision
The recent candidates forum revealed many things about the mayor’s race.
First and foremost is that being a U.S. citizen, 35 years of age and resident of the county for three years does not qualify someone to administer a nearly $200 million budget for our county. The mayor’s assistant position requires only the same qualifications.
Being a big lovable charismatic teddy bear will definitely get a lot of votes, but the past several mayors have had no qualifications or education in municipal government administration.
We have gone for years, accepting property taxes without knowing how efficiently our county government is being operated, if we have qualified people in key positions, or if a performance audit should require changes.
Candidate Diana LaBedz would hire a mayor’s assistant that would have a minimum master’s degree in municipal administration with at least 10 years experience and a proven track record in a city of over 100,000 population.
She would also use the mayor’s position to obtain a federal permit to grow commercial hemp on the thousands of acres of cane land that lays fallow producing nothing. The production of commercial hemp and the over 1,200 products that can be manufactured from it could bring industries to Kaua‘i that would create hundreds of sustainable jobs to revitalize Kaua‘i economy and be an example to other Hawai‘i counties.
These are only some of the visions for a better quality of life on our island that candidate LaBedz would initiate.
Rich Hoeppner, Kapa‘a
