Leaders, not citizens responsible for water problem
Dear Mr. Harry Kim and Keith Okamoto, nice of you to chew out the Kona citizens for not being prudent enough to save more water. How evil we citizens are. The typical response from another worthless government entity.
However, I have a different solution to the problem I thought you might want to hear. Or maybe not. I know it is a radical idea. But hard times bring hard decisions. How about you do the job you are being paid for?
You say four out of 10 wells have been broken down for awhile. The other six are about to break down. So in my math, that means 40 percent of your product is worthless and the other 60 percent about to be. Instead of fixing them, here’s another radical idea: Get ahead of the game and get some new wells in here.
You have large developments in planning. For tax purposes I’m sure, but you can’t take care of your customers now. If you were in private business you would have been fired a long time ago. You might want to look up the law. When a city or county incorporates, you are required to give the people you are taxing basic services. That means water, schools, police, fire departments and on.
Or maybe you snuck in a law that says you are not required to do a darn thing. Not only do we get zero of that without being taxed more, we don’t even get a good product after we pay more.
Alan Parfinovics
Kailua-Kona