• Appalled by councilman’s behavior • Beach cleanups still generate litter • UH president’s resignation is rubbish • More than clerical error • Nawiliwili robbery was an assault Appalled by councilman’s behavior Although I appreciate having streaming access to council
• Appalled by councilman’s behavior • Beach cleanups still generate litter • UH president’s resignation is rubbish • More than clerical error • Nawiliwili robbery was an assault
Appalled by councilman’s behavior
Although I appreciate having streaming access to council meetings, I am becoming alarmed and quite honestly appalled by the behavior of some council members, particularly Mel Rapozo.
I don’t like TVRs but because a department head’s first attempts at trying to fix the problem have not worked, at his own honest admission, it does not give Mel permission to attack the director on a personal level and openly berate him. I seemed to have missed when Mel proposed solutions of his own, but I suspect there wasn’t any.
Frankly, I found Mel’s tirade counterproductive and immature to resolving an issue I want solved. As a voter I expect civility in my elected officials and that virtue is clearly absent in one.
Leona Guerrero
Kapa‘a
Beach cleanups still generate litter
To the people that clean up the beaches on Kaua‘i, thanks for cleaning up. But can you finish the job and take it to the dump instead of just leaving it there and taking full credit for cleaning up the beaches.
All you’re doing is littering still. Pretty much just taking your home trash and dumping it on the side of the road hoping some one will pick it up.
Maybe you should buy your own trucks so you can haul it to the dump. Then that’s when you take full credit of the cleanup
Bill Sento
Kapa‘a
UH president’s resignation is rubbish
President Greenwood’s retirement is just another bureaucratic whitewashing. Greenwood is, in essence, breaching her state of Hawai‘i employment contract by quitting two years before the expiration date in 2015. She is alleging health and personal issues as a legal pretext for discharging her contract before her performance is complete in 2015.
However, her public relations photos in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser belie her legal defense of impossibility of performance due to health reasons as she looks quite robust in her photos.
Moreover, she expressly intends to continue to work as a professor following her quitting in the middle of her executive state of Hawai‘i contract.
This latter fact would also tend to prove circumstantially that she is physically and mentally capable of completing her original contractual obligations as president of the University of Hawai‘i. Therefore, her impossibility of performance defense and justification for quitting in the middle of her contract is rubbish.
David Mihaila
Honolulu
More than clerical error
Regarding TGI‘s Thursday, May 9 article, “No drilling into Wai‘ale‘ale.”
It is reasonable to assume that Oceanit, Jan TenBruggencate (KIUC) and the Department of Water should be investigated for fraud.
1. How does public comment on an EIS remain open for a project that is invalidated based on false information and what kind of farce is “informational” meetings with no credibility?
2. Mr. Craddick’s confession that “We gave wrong information, I cannot minimize that in any way” does not absolve the DOW but it is incriminating.
3. Can KIUC and Oceanit‘s spokesperson, Jan TenBruggencate, now be believed that this project will not deplete streams, dry up surrounding areas or destroy watersheds?
4. How was a public hearing presentation with extensive maps, planning, drawings and commentary allowed to continue for several hours and months previous, on Mount Wai‘ale‘ale being the intended site for drilling?
It is impossible to accept as clerical error. In fact, it was always their intent to drill at the Iliiliula site as it made the best business sense to drill there; it would be adjacent to the KIUC upper Waiahi Hydro with existing access roads and pad. Also stated: if they didn‘t find the desired 9 million gallons from the first tunnel, additional tunnels would be drilled. DOW, developer and consultant all participated in the presentation.
Thousands of tax dollars have been spent to convince us their scheme was sound, using public resources for private gain.
Elaine Dunbar
Lihu’e
Nawiliwili robbery was an assault
Elected officials and members of law enforcement are entitled to an occasional slip of the tongue.
However, I have to comment on Mr. Kollar’s statement regarding the robbery at Nawiliwili being a “property crime.”
A property crime occurs when someone breaks into your car or lifts a wallet out of your beach bag. Using force to deprive someone of their property — in this case, knocking a visitor down — is robbery.
It is a violent crime, a crime against a person, and an assault.
Suzan Kelsey Brooks
West Des Moines, Iowa
