{"id":5807,"date":"2019-06-10T02:34:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T02:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawaiioceannews.com\/?p=5807"},"modified":"2019-06-12T08:31:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T08:31:20","slug":"dlnr-attempts-to-pass-13-234-rules-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaiioceannews.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/10\/dlnr-attempts-to-pass-13-234-rules-package\/","title":{"rendered":"Final BLNR Hearing Regarding 13-234 Gives Boaters Last Chance to Have Their Voices Heard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-5807\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-5807-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div style=\"padding: 0px 0; \" data-overlay=\"true\" data-overlay-color=\"#000000\" class=\"panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-5807-0\" ><div id=\"pgc-5807-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-5807-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-headline panel-first-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div style=\"text-align: left;\" data-title-color=\"#443f3f\" data-headings-color=\"#443f3f\" class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-5807-0-0-0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-headline so-widget-sow-headline-default-68418d5014fc-5807\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><div class=\"sow-headline-container \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"sow-headline\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tOur Testimony to The BLNR Regarding the Chapter 13-234 Rules Package Proposal\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"decoration\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"decoration-inside\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-5807-0-0-1\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><div style=\"text-align: left;\" data-title-color=\"#443f3f\" data-headings-color=\"#443f3f\" class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-5807-0-0-1\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><em>Below are some of the legal concerns regarding the Chapter 13-234 rules proposal. The DLNR's Board will conduct its final deliberation on this rules package this coming Friday, June 14, 2019,\u00a0 9:30 A.M.\u00a0 Below find our BLNR testimony, which was also submitted, in writing:<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><br \/>\n1) The appraisal upon which Chapter 13-234 fee increase packet is based, is not an \"independent appraisal\", as prescribed by Hawaii statute, and is therefore illegal for use in this context.\u00a0 Further, this appraisal has disqualified itself, in its entirety, because of the disturbing frequency of fundamental errors within the document on top of a structure of invalid assumptions.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">See attached footnotes for detailed examples. (<a href=\"https:\/\/ksw.hjy.mybluehost.me\/HON-DESTINATION\/index.php\/foot_notes_13-234-details\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Item # 1<\/strong><\/a>)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">2) Chapter 13-234-10, electrical fee increase proposal for non-metered electrical receptacles is patently illegal and invites the expense of litigation:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">See attached footnotes for detailed examples (<a href=\"https:\/\/ksw.hjy.mybluehost.me\/HON-DESTINATION\/index.php\/foot_notes_13-234-details\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Item # 2<\/strong><\/a>).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><br \/>\n3) Chapter 13-234 charges fees for non-existent services and phantom facilities. Chapter 13-234 makes fraudulent claims that establish a basis for legal challenges.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">See attached footnotes for detailed examples (<a href=\"https:\/\/ksw.hjy.mybluehost.me\/HON-DESTINATION\/index.php\/foot_notes_13-234-details\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Item # 3<\/strong><\/a>).<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><br \/>\n4) A disturbing succession of internally generated DoBOR judgment errors, some of which with legally questionable processes, cost the Special Boating Fund $100s of thousands of dollars over the past couple of years. Why are recreational boat owners being asked to pay for these internal Agency errors?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">See attached footnotes for detailed examples (<a href=\"https:\/\/ksw.hjy.mybluehost.me\/HON-DESTINATION\/index.php\/foot_notes_13-234-details\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Item # 4<\/strong><\/a>).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">5) Chapter 13-234-3 (a):\u00a0 asking recreational boat owners to begin paying for their entire pier length, instead of the usual and customary boat-length metric, results in illegal discrimination against lower-income boaters, in a <strong>public<\/strong> harbor system.\u00a0\u00a0 Someone who can only afford to own a 20-foot vessel, for example, will now be required to pay the exact same mooring rate as his\/her neighbor with the 28-foot vessel.\u00a0 Patently unfair and discriminatory.\u00a0 And, once again, the invalid appraisal that inspired this section is incapable of differentiating between slip spaces in public marinas and private land-based rental properties. <\/span><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">6) The preamble of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii states:<strong><em>\u00a0 We reaffirm our belief in a government of the people, by the people and for the people<\/em><\/strong><em> . . .\u00a0 .\u00a0 Historically, there is no discernible evidence to suggest that the DLNR is listening to the people it's supposed to be serving.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>1) <\/strong>Beginning on March 2nd, 2019 The DLNR\/DoBOR recorded more than 20 hours of in-person testimony regarding 13-234 and hundreds of written testimonies, many published online; \u00a0<strong><em>100% of the testimony was in opposition to the passage of Chapter 13-234. \u00a0100%<\/em><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>2)<\/strong> If Hawaii\u2019s State government is truly a government <strong><em>\u201cof, by and for the people of Hawaii,\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 then <strong>why are the people\u2019s voices being ignored?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><em><br \/>\n7) The number of legal issues found in Chapter 13-234 is unsettling and may cost the State of Hawaii in legal challenges; the State may find that enforcing some of the rules will be very difficult; and the legal quagmire and then the logistics of removing and disposal of increased numbers of abandoned vessels from the State Harbor system, as a result of the fee increases, may cost the State more than what it gained.<\/em><\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\">1) The Attorney General\u2019s Office admits, in writing, to not having been fully qualified to vet Chapter 13-234 for all inherent legal irregularities.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\">See attached footnotes for details (<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/ksw.hjy.mybluehost.me\/HON-DESTINATION\/index.php\/foot_notes_13-234-details\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Item # 7<\/span><\/strong><\/a>).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><em>2) Chapter 13-234, much of it legally troubling, does nothing to improve the State\u2019s public harbor system<\/em><\/strong> or the boating environment in Hawaii, while <strong><em>simultaneously creating<\/em><\/strong> an unnecessary hardship for the grass-roots ocean recreation community \u2013- a community that has found itself excluded from this rule-making process -- and an intensified adversarial relationship between the DLNR and Hawaii's public.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">3) What is needed, instead,\u00a0 is responsible, thoughtful stewardship of these precious heirlooms, our public harbors, through diligent effort and collaborative planning with the very public that is being served by this public harbor system.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">8) The recent indefinite deferment, by legislators, of SB1257, sends a clear message to the DLNR regarding legislative opinion about rate increases in Hawaii\u2019s public harbor system.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><em>Ladies and gentlemen of the Board of Land and Natural Resources, Chapter 13-234, in its present form, is rife with legally troubling implication, will end up costing the State of Hawaii much more money than it will take in, is based on poorly thought-through funding schemes that will not solve any of the urgent issues now facing our public harbor system, is based on an invalid and illegal appraisal, and displays an especially disturbing mean-spiritedness in the way in which it ignores the will of the people it pretends to serve, while creating unnecessary and undue hardship in our ocean recreation community. \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><em>We respectfully ask that you put the current revised version of Chapter 13-234 aside, in its entirety, and make a genuine effort to work together with the people that you are charged with serving -- the very same people who fund your paychecks -- in order to develop a mutually workable plan for Hawaii\u2019s public harbor system.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Thank you for taking a moment to consider our testimony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Katherine Lindell<br \/>\n<em>Hawaii Ocean News<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width: 200px; height: 145px; border: 1px solid #cdced0; border-bottom: none; background-color: #e9eaeb; margin: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ipetitions.com\/widget\/view\/812348\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; 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