Fuel Tax Your help is needed

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radiopeg
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Fuel Tax Your help is needed

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Fuel Tax Revenue
(grant in aid program for private subdivision roads)


Send Testimony Now!
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Fuel Tax Revenue Bills are stuck in Transportation Committee
We can't get a floor vote without Rep. Joseph Souki's okay. (Trans. Committee Chair)

Please email or call Rep. Joseph Souki
repsouki@capitol.hawaii.gov
to allow a floor vote on these bills!



Friends of Puna’s Future (FoPF) spent last year working with our County Council, Dominic Yagong and Faye Hanohano on a proposal to make a portion of the transportation fund available to private subdivisions. The proposal to county council (Reso 321-10) was handled by Councilman Dominic Yagong and was approved by council in 2010. It is now at the state legislature. Our 750 miles of privately owned/publicly accessed roads produce tax money that should help maintain them.

Representative Faye Hanohano has submitted House Bill 1626 in 2011 to amend the state fuel tax statutes to allow a fuel tax grant in aid program for the Big island. This year HB 2118 has been filed to provide compromise language.

You may read the bills here:

http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session20 ... umber=1626
http://capitol.hawaii.gov/measure_indiv ... umber=2118

This is IMPORTANT stuff. If successful this may be the first real structural change in the way Puna has been treated in fifty years.

Everyone who reads this should email support for HB 1626 & HB 2118 right now!

Also Email to: reps@capitol.hawaii.gov

Subject line: Support for HB 2118 & HB 1626

Possible statements:

A. 750 miles of publicly accessed private Big Island roads generate fuel tax and desperately need assistance. Ambulances are often unable to reach people in need. Please support HB 1626 & HB 2118 and bring to a floor vote!

B. The Big Island has a unique problem and needs your vote in favor of HB 1626 to help solve it. Taxes are paid. 750 miles of publicly accessed private roads are in need of maintenance. Please support HB 1626 & HB 2118 and bring to a floor vote!

C. Please support HB 1626 & HB 2118 and bring to a floor vote!. The Big Island really needs this solution to a Big Island problem.


Talk to your friends and neighbors. Our roads need and deserve access to our tax money to maintain and improve them. It is your money. These are your roads.

Mahalo to Faye Hanohano, Dominic Yagong and our council for their continuing efforts.

This is long over due! Please send testimony now.

Rob Tucker, BoD
www.fopf.org
965-1555
http://friendsofpunasfuture.blogspot.co ... quest.html
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