#Hawaiian homesteads
Sovereign Council of Hawaiian Homestead Associations’ monthly Big Island meeting tonight
The SCHHA Hawai‘i Island & Kaua‘i Mokupuni Meeting is hosted every fourth Tuesday the month at 6 p.m.
Hawai‘i County Council adopts funding measure for Puna Alternate Routes Study
The goal of the study is to determine where other routes could be placed to help alleviate the district’s longstanding issues of traffic congestion and need for another evacuation route when natural disasters strike, such as eruptions and lava flows, and better access for emergency response.
County Council rejects funding bill for Puna Makai Alternate Route Study on second and final reading
The bill would have accepted and added into the County’s budget $1 million from the state, which Puna state Rep. Greggor Ilagan was able to get allocated as a line item in the state budget in 2021, and another $500,000 from County coffers for the Hawai‘i County Department of Public Works to do the study.
County Council postpones decision on funding bill for Puna Makai Alternate Route Study
There is no infrastructure work planned at this time. Bill 107 only would put funds into the County budget for the study, which would be conducted to find an alternate route in and out of Puna to Hilo below Highway 130.
