Maunawili Community Association

MUSE, Volume 7, Issue 1, July 2004

????? CITY GARBAGE DUMP COMING TO KAILUA ?????

GARBAGE DUMP COMING TO KAILUA       
     
The City Department of Planning and Permitting (DPP) is now embarked on placing Ameron Quarry on the City’s Facilities Map in order to allow City Budget monies to be allocated for acquisition and development of a City Sanitary Landfill at Ameron Kapaa Quarry Kailua.  A City Garbage Dump at Ameron Quarry would be receiving some 800 tons per day of City garbage and trash, and some 600 tons per day of H-Power ash, along with City Sewer Plant Sludge.  Other technologies and plans (plasma-melters and recycling garbage) will have little or no impact in reducing these amounts to any City Garbage Dump. City Garbage Dump continued from page 1 . . .
The City Council is still required by the Land Use Commission to select a new Garbage Dump site by December 1, 2004.  Certain actions are being taken to ameliorate the issues of landfill site selection: Councilwoman Barbara Marshall has created a Resolution [04-31] to be placed before the City Council’s Public Works Committee in the future; Rod Tam, Chair of the Public Works Committee held public informational meetings both in Leeward and Windward.  The Landfill meeting held at Kailua District Park by the City Council Committee on Public Works on March 31 was well attended (over 300 persons). Residents, businesses and concerned groups voiced strong opposition to placing a City Municipal Landfill at Ameron Kapaa Quarry- Kailua. The Maunawili Community Association sent thirty pages of opposition testimony in March, 2004 to City Department of Environmental Services, Department of Planning and Permitting and elected and appointed officials of the State and the City detailing the historical importance of Kapaa Valley, the necessary protection of Kapa’a Stream, the Kawainui Marsh as well as the long, torturous history of previous landfills (garbage dumps) and their failures, fires, floods and landslides in Kapaa Valley along with their testimony opposing placing a Sanitary Waste (SW) symbol on the City’s Facilities Map which would encumber funds to develop a municipal landfill at Ameron Kapaa Quarry – Kailua. It has been suggested that Senator Colleen Hanabusa recuse herself from any decision on the Landfill site location as she lives, works, rents office space from the entity that has received a substantial tax credit from the State of Hawaii and opposes the landfill continuing at Waimanalo Gulch. The Leeward Neighborhood Board has passed motions to put Ameron Kapaa Quarry-Kailua on the City’s Facilities Map and Ameron Kapaa Quarry-Kailua to be the next landfill for the all of Oahu. It must be recalled that a number of elected officials have a conflict of interest in the selection of a landfill site both at State, City, City Council, and City Council Committee levels. Jeff Stone threatened to sue for Billions if the Waimanalo Gulch Sanitary Landfill is not closed. Todd Apo, Stone’s deputy, was cited by the State Office of Information Practices for violation of the Sunshine Law in securing a vote to remove Waimanalo Gulch from the potential sites list from the Mayor’s Blue Ribbon Panel. The Community meeting held in Kailua had over 300 persons, businesses and groups opposing the Ameron Kapaa Quarry-Kailua site being on the list of potential sites or being selected as the Oahu site for a city garbage dump. The Land Use Commission met in late March or early April and has extended the date for the selection of the landfill site from June 1, 2004 to December 1, 2004. The third H-Power unit has not been built or even completely funded. Only $6 Million has been set aside for design while another $60 Million, at least, is needed to build the third H-Power unit. Currently, the two H-Power units have been closed for ‘regularly scheduled maintenance’. Recall, the off-line H-Power unit called Waimanalo Gulch to receive an extra 180 days of municipal waste only two years ago. Plasma-Arc is ‘pie-in-the-sky’ and has been unable to stay operational enough to handle even the medical waste stream. It may be 5 to 10 more years before the technology lag is efficiently addressed to manage the waste-stream. Even the revenue from H-Power has been lost in down-time. The MCA has requested a public hearing for the placement of a Sanitary Waste “SW” symbol on the City’s Facilities Map. We have not heard back from DES or DPP.
Kailua, Windward, Maunawili need to unite to prevent the City’s garbage dump being placed at Ameron. Leeward has a strong united front (Hanabusa, Jeff Stone, Todd Apo, Gabbard, Neighborhood Boards, etc.) determined to close Waimanalo Gulch-Leeward and to open the City dump in Ameron Kapaa Quarry-Windward. Form pressure groups, bug your elected officials, letters to the editor, make noise or, . . . You will be the proud owner of an Island-wide dump for (Oahu and tourists) garbage, trash, H-Power ash and Sewer sludge—1400 tons a day, 365 days a year for 20-30 years. If that’s all OK with you, “forgeddaboudit.” If you object, raise a storm of opposition! The new City Council will make this decision, to dump the dump at Ameron, or not, on December 1, 2004. Remember, the $150,000,000 to $200,000,000 just to open a new City dump at Ameron is totally at your (taxpayer) expense! Any loss to Ko’Olina Developers if Waimanalo Gulch is extended will be private investor expense (minus, of course, the $75,000,000.00—10 year, tax break the Legislature and the Governor granted to Ko’Olina Developers this past legislative session!).

CASTLE JUNCTION REPAIR AND MAUNAWILI DIRT DUMP SITE

Castle Junction Excavation Project and Maunawili Valley Dirt dump site at Kaneohe Ranch Land:
Our Community discovered, in January, 2004, that Kaneohe Ranch land was to receive 240,000 cubic yards of dirt from the Castle Junction Slope Mitigation project and that Kaneohe Ranch was to fill in the land next to Trinity Church School to construct a playground. While Trinity Church School owns its one acre of land and has outgrown its initial plans as a preschool to now include through grade six, the adjacent land is a wetland and a part to the Kawainui Marsh system and is protected not only as a wetland, but as a part of the Shoreline Management area and may not be tampered with. After your MCA Board worked with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, the City Department of Planning and Permitting and the landowner, and Kaneohe Ranch/Castle Foundation, this important wetland was spared the insult of development and our community was spared the potential of increased flooding as that which occurred in 1987-8 that swallowed up some half dozen vehicles that unsuccessfully attempted to cross the high water in the natural dip on Auloa Road that occurs at the wetland site.
It is of note that Trinity Church School is still interested in expansion in Maunawili Valley, however, as a residential community this may be quite difficult to accomplish as the infrastructure, to include sewer requirements, and the congestion to our residential roads is overstressed with current requirements of the Church/School. However, Kaneohe Ranch and the Church/School are still interested a Trinity Church School playground sometime in the future. It was unfortunate that the subsequent water main break at the exit driveway of Trinity Church School’s driveway was just one result of the heavy December through April rains that stressed the inadequately prepared water main connection and the asphalt driveway. This water main is the same main that serves the Maunawili Estates Community and Water Tank. See our article on the BWS projects slated for September in Maunawili Valley beginning on page 1 and continuing throughout this publication.
The dirt from Castle Junction is currently being dumped, graded and landscaped on seven and a half acres of Kaneohe Ranch/Castle Foundation land located behind the Maunawili Farm Stables and Kal Highway on land zoned for agriculture—this soil is free, as is the grading and landscaping, to Kaneohe Ranch and is being paid for with tax dollars.
Due to concerns of residents in our community your MCA Board has followed the project with the greatest concern. It was brought to our attention that the Hawaii Pacific University and the Teixeira Family Trust both wanted the dirt pushed over from the site onto their land. Despite our entreaty to the Governor to assist in the mitigation of the project she considered an ’emergency’, we were unable to affect either HPU or the Teixiera Family Trust in acquiring the dirt as both are located in a conservation district and the contractor, Goodfellow Brothers, Inc. (GBI), was unwilling to process the necessary permits on the HPU or the Teixeira sites. GBI, along with State Department of Transportation, City Department of Transportation, Department of Planning and Permitting, the Corps of Engineers, had three monthly meetings with the community as well as a number of special meetings with several members of the MCA Board that concerned traffic, wetlands, special permit requirements, best management practices. The contractor, GBI also met with the Kailua Neighborhood Board and several of its committees.
It was unfortunate that our community was referred to in the ‘press’ as delaying the Castle Junction Project. In fact, the required permits and the continuous rain slowed the project, not the Maunawili community. In fact, several things happened:          Continued from page 2 . . .
1. An access road was to be built across from Kapaa Quarry Road, however it required traversing a Shoreline Management Area for the first 300 feet. Special permitting for this required the development of additional management plans to mitigate for possible run-off pollution into the nearby stream and wetland. These permitting applications were not approved and issued until March 29, 2004.
2. It became apparent that the traffic mitigation could not allow for GBI’s dirt-filled trucks to enter Kal Highway by crossing the center guard rail as it was considered far too dangerous to commuters.  With the continued meetings with the MCA Board and community members, the traffic pattern was established to leave Castle Junction on Kam Highway, continue to H-3 to access Mokapu Saddle Road and gain Kapaa Quarry Road and cross Kal Highway at the temporary light installed at the new access road to the Kaneohe Ranch Land where the dirt was to be dumped. This kept the trucks with the flow of traffic, decreased the possibility of commuter traffic hazards and allowed the crossing of Kal Highway to be at a stop-light. The trucks leaving the dump site on Kaneohe Ranch Land now had a traffic light for turning left when re-approaching the excavation site at Castle Junction, thereby, again flowing with traffic instead of crossing it.
3. Endangered Sheerwater birds nest in the cliffs above Kailua in the Koolau Mountain range from May to October. The flight-path of these precious birds crosses over the excavation and dumping sites. The contractor, GBI, understood that no night work could be done beginning May 1st. Due to the heavy, and continuous rains between December and the end of April, all work on the excavation site was heavily impacted with slippery conditions that would have made working on the site dangerous for the workers, subsequently, no night work was attempted by GBI.
4. The MCA Board sought assurances that the dirt-dumping project and new access road on KR/CF land would not damage Kahanaiki Stream and riparian zone, the Wetland, the Kawainui Marsh, natural vegetation and wildlife, nor historical/archaeological sites (understanding that the site and access road will be properly permitted).  The land owner KR/CF requested that visitors to the dirt dumping site get permission prior to walking the area.  Dr. Chuck Burrows, Kawainui Heritage Foundation, naturalist and historian, and Mr. Eric Guinther, environmentalist, both requested access to the site to examine for burials, historical significances and best management practices to protect the surrounding water system.
5. GBI conducted two sound tests for the dump site in Maunawili at the request of the community. Although the results of the sound test suggested the noise levels would been above acceptable levels so near a residential community, the contractor agreed to turn off the back-up signals of all their equipment. This could not be agreed to with the numerous sub-contractors that would actually haul the dirt. However, as the rain slowed the schedule considerably, the possibility of night work and noise levels impacting the community during sleeping hours became a moot point.
6. It must be noted for all persons concerned in this project, the State contract that allows the installation of this temporary access road requires the temporary road be removed, including the gravel, and the traffic light, and the land be restored at the end of the project. The contractor will remove the road as they ’back out’ of the project with their heavy equipment upon its completion.
It remains very unfortunate that the City Department of Transportation Services (DTS) in conjunction with the State Department of Transportation (DOT) are unable to mitigate the bad timing of the traffic lights at Castle Junction. While the State is responsible for the road, the city is responsible for the traffic light timing and the City seems unwilling to adjust the lights due to ’shortage’ of staff, and the Contractor, GBI, is not responsible for police manning of the intersection as it is off-site. However, the pot-holes on Kal Highway have been patched (again) and will be patched as required to mitigate commuters concerns for their vehicles and safety for all vehicles. The Contractor, GBI, is not required to repair the roads (Kal Highway and Kam Highway) as that is the responsibility of the State of Hawaii. We will continue to address these issues of the road surface.
The HECO pole on the top of the excavation site will still be there at the end of the project. Residents may note this as a reference point for the final height of Castle Junction at the end of the project.
The increased traffic along Auloa Road does include the morning bus traffic that would miss its scheduled time-table if it stayed with the traffic jam on Kal Highway. The MCA board has reminded TheBus to obey the speed limits on Auloa Road and be courteous to on-coming traffic, especially at the 13 turns on the narrow country road.
Dirt is available for those persons who make arrangements and come to the excavation site and haul away themselves. A reminder, the buckets on the loaders are very large, so small loads must be put in small trucks by the requestor. Dirt is available from the staging area at the Kailua end of the project.
Currently the dump site is being filled with soil, graded, and landscaped. This work is 1/2 completed and the contractor, GBI, is working in daylight hours except for Sunday. The dirt-dump site is expected to be completed by mid-July except for landscaping. The entire project for Castle Junction will be similar except that the landscaping of the Excavation site will end nearer Labor Day.
The red dirt that is blowing across our valley and settling on our homes and yards is to be constantly mitigated with the frequent use of the Goodfellow Brothers water truck. If you notice they are not keeping this commitment to our community you need to pick up you phone and call Art Lambert at 478-7977 and complain. He’s expecting you. . . .

BOARD OF WATER SUPPLY AND . . . ALL THE REST

BWS: BWS will be installing and additional 8-inch water main to the existing water main and installing fire hydrants, at approximately 350 feet spacing, along Maunawili Road and Maunawili Loop between Auloa Road and Aloha Oe Drive. (See Map above for project limits) The project has been bid and is to start construction September 2004. The project will begin at Trinity Christian Church/School, following along Maunawili Road to Maunawili Loop, and returning to Maunawili Road to Aloha ‘Oe Drive in Maunawili Estates.  The contractor will do a traffic study, as required.  The contractor anticipates the use of steel plates and keeping one lane open at all times.  The question of an emergency access road is still being investigated between MCA, MECA and BWS as this emergency access road was required to be furnished by Luana Hills Golf Course when it was built, as stipulated in the Conditional Use Permit.  The Board of water Supply contract is for 270 days and will place a duplicate (redundant) water line of 8 inch diameter parallel with the current main supplying Maunawili Estates Water Tank and community. Fire hydrants are to be installed according to City Code on Maunawili Loop during the project. This redundancy line will be to serve the water tank at the 500 foot level in Maunawili Estates. The Lease that ended for the farmers on the land adjacent to Maunawili Estates has ended and Weinberg HRT does have plans to subdivide this parcel and has requested permission from Eric Crispin of the Department of Planning and Permitting. This land is zoned as AG2 and that zoning allows twenty-five 2-acre lots which is located inside the urban boundary. BWS has stated that for this parcel to have water hook-up it will be required to connect to the Maunawili Valley 272 foot system that ends near the intersection of Maunawili Road, Lunahelu Street and Maunawili Circle.
Blue U. S. Postal Box in Maunawili: We now have a new post office drop box in Maunawili at 1066 Maunawili road. Our thanks goes out to the Laeha Family for their diligent work with the U.S Postmaster in getting our blue mail box back in the community. It is noted that pick up is at 9:30 am and it is hoped that more than the minimum of 25 parcels or letters per day will be deposited in the box so that the post office will not take our box away for non-use. Location: MAUNAWILI ROAD @ MAUNAWILI LOOP
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HALLOWEEN 2003:
The Trick or Treating was quite brisk until 9 pm on Lunaai and Lunahelu Streets, our main thoroughfares. Most of the Places and Cul-de-sacs were lighter with fewer trick-or-treaters but the entire valley outdid itself from past years and decorated with smoke machines, Jack-O-Lanterns, Ghosts, Light shows and lots, and lots of candy to give out to lots, and lots of kiddies. Moms, Dads, Aunts, Uncles and Grandparents took the time to walk with the children and with their flashlights up one street and down the next—the kids got lots of goodies and some may not come off their sugar highs until Christmas. Our Pumpkin Carvers included so many entries it was indeed difficult to choose. We offer the following categories and descriptions for everyone’s appreciation:
The YOUNGEST CARVER was Katie GOMES with the help of her Dad and she displayed a broad friendly smiling Jack-O-Lantern on her doorstep. A CUBIST interpretation Jack-O-Lantern was carved by Jan LOOSE. MOST HAWAIIAN HEAD Jack-O-Lantern by Tony LOCRICCHIO to include the lei straw hat and little plastic Jack-O-Lantern hair ornaments. The BRADENs treated us with BEAUTIFULLY CARVED cats in their Jack-O-Lantern. The CASEYs lit their driveway with Jack-O-Lanterns with red and yellow interior lights. RICHARDSONs and BAUTISAs displayed their jack-O-Lantern as did the GRACEs and the YAMASHIROs; while the HUs displayed their Jack-O-Lantern collection from over the years. THE MADDOCKS Family displayed a wonderful 35 foot high ghost presiding over a haunted graveyard complete with many headstones and six or more Jack-O-Lanterns carved as an arched-backed cat, a flying bat, a frowning face, a smirking face and two smiley faces. A FREE SPIRITED snaggle-toothed Jack-O-Lantern was displayed by Larry LOOSE. The SCARIEST Jack-O-lantern was offered by young carver Thomas GOMES with the assistance of his Dad and Thomas displayed a vampire’s head with blood dripping fangs to guard his doorstep. Over on Maunawili Road we found a clutch of Jack-O-Lanterns we have to put in the MOST UNIQUE category. The entire family carved one Jack-O-Lantern each and displayed them on a black-draped table in the front yard behind which they offered trick-or-treat candies to all brave takers. One was a Hawaiian Beach House that included the rainbow and swaying Palm trees; another was the caricature face of Mickey Mouse; Tinkerbelle smiled out of one Jack-O-Lantern to grant all wishes of all children for the evening, Stitch flew in from outer space to oversee the festivities; a Gentle Mother Tiger was quietly nursing her kittens and last, but not least, helping to give out candy was a Maunawili pumpkin in the making—due date, several months away. We know we must have missed some of the hopeful entries and it will HAUNT us all year long—but Maunawili, you did a great job heralding in the arrival of the Great Pumpkin—Congratulations!!
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CHRISTMAS 2003: Our Christmas Tree of Families that decorated their homes this season—you did a great job heralding in Christmas Maunawili style. ?”
?” BOSTON FAMILY ?” ?” HOWARD FAMILY ?” ?” RODRIGUES FAMILY ?” MCKEE FAMILY ?” AJIMINE FAMILY ?” ?” JONES FAMILY ?” ANDERSON FAMILY ?” RIGGS FAMILY ?”
?” WONG/TOMIYASA FAMILY ?” SOUZA FAMILY ?” JOHNSEN FAMILY ?”
?” OUR NEIGHBORS ?” GELLERT FAMILY ?” MILLS FAMILY ?” MOORE FAMILY ?”
?” MILLER FAMILY ?” MURASHIGE FAMILY ?” KURIYAMA FAMILY ?” KURAHARA FAMILY ?”
?” TAMAYE FAMILY ?” KANO FAMILY ?” GREANEY FAMILY ?” LOOSE FAMILY ?” ?” HOLLAND FAMILY ?” BORDNER FAMILY ?” OUR NEIGHBORS ?” LAEHA FAMILY ?”
?” TAKEMURA FAMILY ?” ARTHUR FAMILY ?” BOWMAN FAMILY ?” FITZGERALD FAMILY ?” ?” MURAGIN FAMILY ?” CARRELL FAMILY ?” CARVALHO FAMILY ?” MOTO FAMILY ?” PANG FAMILY ?”
?” HOKE FAMILY ?” CHOCK FAMILY ?” CHIPCHASE FAMILY ?” MILLER FAMILY ?” JONES FAMILY ?” ?” GRAHAM FAMILY ?” LOCRICCHIO FAMILY ?” MATSUURA FAMILY ?” WAKATAKA FAMILY ?”
?” ALMQUIST FAMILY ?” WHITE FAMILY ?” MCARTHUR FAMILY ?” KANESHIRO FAMILY ?”
?” OUR NEIGHBORS ?” GOYA FAMILY ?” OUR NEIGHBORS ?” CHING FAMILY ?” ?” ONOPO FAMILY ?” MARIYOSHI FAMILY ?” GRACE FAMILY ?”
?” DYBDAL FAMILY ?” LAKATOS FAMILY ?” CORCORAN/URE FAMILY ?” GRAF / GALLOWAY FAMILY ?” ?” DAVIS FAMILY ?” FOYE FAMILY ?” SUZUKI FAMILY ?” YANAGISAWA FAMILY ?” SMITH FAMILY ?”
?” BARRETTA FAMILY ?” SCHNEIBEL FAMILY ?” VINCENT FAMILY ?” GARBEIL FAMILY ?” JAYCOX FAMILY ?”
?” BRUTSCH FAMILY ?” SAITO FAMILY ?” GILLILAND FAMILY ?” CHUN FAMILY ?”
?” ICHIYAMA FAMILY ?” MURASHIMA FAMILY ?” KUMABE FAMILY ?” TATSUGUCHI FAMILY ?”
?” MADDOCKS FAMILY ?” KOBAYASHI FAMILY ?” GILLILAND FAMILY ?” ?” MAILE FAMILY ?” BERRY FAMILY ?” MIRANDA FAMILY ?” DUVAUCHELLE FAMILY ?”
?” WEAVER FAMILY ?” POCHEREVA FAMILY ?” ROPER FAMILY ?” GIBSON FAMILY ?”
?” KANEOHE RANCH ?” NEHER/WOODDELL FAMILY ?” FURUBAYASHI FAMILY ?” ASHFORD FAMILY ?” ?” TATUM FAMILY ?” OUR NEIGHBORS ?” WEITZENHOFF FAMILY ?” TSUBOTO FAMILY ?” WEIDIE FAMILY ?”
?” UYEHARA FAMILY ?” ROSA FAMILY ?” BONE FAMILY ?” OUR NEIGHBORS ?” SHIGETA FAMILY ?”
?” MUROMACHI FAMILY ?” VOGT FAMILY ?” KANTER/JAMES FAMILY ?” FIELDS FAMILY ?”
?” OTSU FAMILY ?” GOYA FAMILY ?”
?” KERCH FAMILY ?” FUJISE FAMILY ?”
?” A CHRISTMAS BUFO FROG WITH A RED BOW ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?” ?”
2003 MERRY CHRISTMAS MAUNAWILI AND A JOYOUS NEW YEAR 2004
Santa left SNOW at the home of the Arthur’s and children from the neighborhood quickly found a boogie board makes a really great sled. Who could imagine the slopes of Olomana Mountain in Maunawili would be so graced with snow for Christmas!
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Bus Stops – Auloa Road: The Bus stops on either side of the Highway at Auloa Road need further design as the State does not want to move the guardrail or cut into it for access to a bus stop. The matter is being further investigated with the State and the City and County. Contact your elected officials, both City , County and State.
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ELECTIONS:
Come elect your MCA Board Officers and Directors for the next year. The Maunawili Community Association needs your support and participation to keep Maunawili a viable community that addresses your concerns. Elections will be held during the Potluck July 24, 2004 at Maunawili Valley Neighborhood Park from 5:00 p.m. to dark.
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OUR THANKS TO OUR COMMUNITY:
We wish to extend our grateful thanks to the many persons and organizations that helped with solutions to the unique situations we found community impacted with over the last year. We could not have done so much with less than these willing participants.
To our residents who gave of their time to chase after the elusive answers--Andrea Bell; Michael Carnes; Larry Loose; Tom Metcalf; Craig Neher; Eleanor Pence; Janice Williams; Wyman Williams; Patricia Lakatos; Suzy White; Michele and Hal MacArthur; Liz Keller; Carol Loose; Robert and Laura Coker; Buck and Sue Ashford; Paul Gagnon; Gerald Pang; Kelly Tomioka; Vincent Fardal; Frank Cho; Suzanne Carnes; Frances Jones; Miles Nishijima;Vanita Rae Smith; Mary Leandro; Alan and Naomi Murakami; Merrill Johnston; Molly Arthur; Bryan and Barbara Gomes and others who did not always get to the sign-in sheets.
Our special advisors--Dr. Chuck Burrows (Ahahui Malama I ka Lokahi); Susan Miller (Kawainui Heritage Foundation); Erik Guinther (Environmentalist); Mike McMahon (Kailua Bay Advisory Council); and Bill Lennan (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers).
Kailua Community Members who created, organized and addressed special issues the City and State were unable to address—we would have not been so successful this year without them, every one--Jim and Shannon Wood (Bust-A-Dumper Campaign) and Ann Medeiros (Pohakapu Park Restoration and Children’s Swings Project),
Extended community members with whom we shared information and sought mutual solutions--Robert (Maunawili Boys’ Home Staff); Corinne and Richard Bauske (Maunawili Estates Community Association); Joseph Hee (Maunawili Estates Community Association); Gordon Mew (Maunawili Estates Community Association); Todd Capen (Trinity Church); Nancy Shaw (Director, Trinity Christian School); Carolyn Sawai (Board of Water Supply); Thomas Otaguro (Board of Water Supply).
The Team Goodfellow Brothers put together to address our many concerns and work with us to implement solutions--Kimo Steinwasher (Kaneohe Ranch Company Representative); David Bills (Bills Engineering); Ron Nance (T. E. C.); Jeff S Hart, R.C. (T.E.C.); Rod Haraga (Department of Transportation); Scott Ishikawa (Department of Transportation); Art Lambert (Goodfellow Brothers, Inc.), Alfred Cheng (Goodfellow Brothers Inc.), Matt Healkhe (Goodfellow Brothers, Inc.); and Alani Apio (Communications Pacific).
Our elected officials and their staff persons who addressed so many of our questions--Nancy Azeri (Councilwoman Barbara Marshall’s staff); Richard Pendleton (Rep Pendleton’s Father); Representative David Pendleton; and Alicia Flores (Rep Pendleton’s staff).
Those who helped us spread the word to the larger community--Eloise Aguiar (Honolulu Advertiser); and Ron Mizutani (Channel 8 News),
Our MCA Board so willing to give of their time and effort to seek solution--
David Laeha (MCA President); Jim Corcoran (Director and MCA’s Representative to the Kailua Neighborhood Board), Iwalani Sowa (MCA Treasurer), Linda Ure (Secretary and MUSE Editor), Dr. Virginia Fine (MCA Director), Suzy Hemmings (MCA Director).
Lastly, but not least, the 300 residents and business representatives that joined us to stop the City Garbage Dump from coming to Kailua—the struggle is not over. Much information is contained in our MUSE to help you stay up to date and let you know who to contact to voice your concerns.

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