9/20/19 #kihei
Yesterday afternoon at 3:00 PM two KCA directors joined our two State elected legislators, Sen Roz Baker and Representative Tina Wildberger, some school administrators, parents, DOE’s Kathleen Dimono , Lauren Loor of Healthy Eating & Active Living (HEAL) , Blue Zones’ Project Rep Laksmi Abraham and a few others at the State Department of Transportation (DOT) facility in Kahului near the airport. The purpose was a presentation on the “Safe Routes To School” Program, which was a ninety minute offering by three presenters, Coordinator Tara Lucas and Safety Coordinator Dana Taramoto from DOT, and Civil Engineer from the County’s Public Works, Kurt Wantanabe, via an extensive team slide presentation.
 Kurt Wantanabe  Tara Lucas  Dana Taramoto |
(However one aside which was not any part of the presentation: we did learn the DOT is working with MPD to potentially require a momentary all traffic stop at the intersection to allow the charter school a mass exit each school day afternoon – stay tuned)
And now for the presentation:
Tara led off and then they switched out speaking on the various segments.
 Lauren Loor  Laksmi Abraham |
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Thank you for the great meeting coverage and all the slides. $90k annually for Maui doesn’t get us much these days on projects like these. So we see here that being able to get matching gov’t monies seems to be the difference that brings these projects (slowly) to reality. What a long hard grind for basic infrastructure. God bless you Rich Bruner who persevered as guinea pig number one to get that Kamalii crossing built over a ten year marathon.
Indeed!! When the great results of what was achieved.in & around Kamali’i, neither Rich’s name nor the decade time span was mentioned. Granted CE Kurt Wantanabe was not part of Public Works for most of those early years, so perhaps he was instrumental in helping it proceed, but commencement when your keiki are in elementary and conclusion when they are in college does not induce others to try it.