1.      Before the Legislature can stimulate the economy and create jobs, downsizing and reorganization of state government will be necessary.  Are there any areas you would suggest the Legislature downsize or reorganize? 

 

-         Get the state government out of BOE or disband and decentralize BOE, leave to local counties for responsibility.  IIII

-         Get rid of welfare, or come up with a better system of regulating money given to people on or in need of welfare.  Perhaps come up with random drug tests, and those on drugs, be taken off welfare. IIIIIIII

-         Get rid of Honolulu Stadium and have the state sell and lease it so there can be swap meets and sports events.II

-         Aloha Stadium.  Run it more efficiently. IIIIIII

-         The DOE should be abolished or reorganized. IIIIIIIII

-         Labor and Industrial Relations Department and Public Works IIIIII

-         Downsize the Senate because it’s ineffective and harmful to the state. Or have one Senate. IIIIII

-         At UH, combine the departments and services.  Or just downsize accordingly.  IIII

-         Basic and fundamental changes in performance review and performance compensation II

-         Downsize and reorganize to a unicameral Legislature IIIIIII

-         Have the state get out of the business of building houses.  Leave it to private sectors. IIII

-         Cut down on the time it takes to get a permit and planning.  Come up with a better way of collecting fines  IIII

-         Reform the Civil Service IIIIIIIII

-         Separate from the Union.  Also reduce the power of them.  III

-         Don’t increase the minimum wage II

-         Reduce the pay of state workers in general III

-         Allow state agencies to borrow equipment from other state agencies instead of buying II

-         Everything except government policy decision-making

-         Outlaw all non-bid contracts and enforce sunshine laws on State Legislature II

-         Not enough teachers

-         Reorganize the Governor’s office.  Eliminate appointed positions such as the Assistant Director Deputy and Lieutenant Governor.  IIIIIII

-         Public schools café workers work twelve months.  It is a waste of resources, money and energy. Cafeteria staffing should be privatized II

-         Downsize the Department of Accounting and General Services IIIIIIII

-         Any and all commercial activities, especially those not contracted out

-         Business Economic Development and Tourism should be a private enterprise generating tax funds for the state

-         OHA II

-         Stepping forward and taking pay cut as elected officials IIIII

-         Downsize the state government and amount of elected officials.   IIIIIIIIIIII

-         Reduce the amount of Representatives in the state by combining more districts. IIII

-         Offer early retirement or incentive for state workers to get off the state payroll.  Include no overtime for state workers.  III

-         Review existing organizations and downsize accordingly.III

-         State Civil Engineers need help, especially the road planning department

-         Run government agencies efficiently.  Hold to standards of private firms. 

-         Legislative branch IIIII

-         Combine existing departments and agencies.  III

-         Smarter education spending III

-         Cut down DCCA II

-         Don’t cut Department of Land and Natural Resources and Division of Fish and Wildlife money

-         You!!!!!!!!  There’s no connection between those who put you in office. 

-         Lack of complete and impartial information, which makes it difficult to recommend where to downsize.  II

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Privatization of Government services is another tool to lower the cost of government.  What programs or services do you think can be performed more efficiently and more effectively by the private sector?

 

-         Maintenance type tasks in general IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII IIIII

-         To be fair government work should bid against private contractors.

-         Cooks II

-         Economic Development and Tourism IIIIIII

-         Education Department IIIIIIIIIII

-      Health Department.  Health care.  IIIIIIIII

-         Human Services Department IIII

-         Transportation Department IIIIIIIIIIII

-         Public Safety Department  IIII

-         Waste management. IIIIIIIIIIII

-         Outsource and modernize the state’s information technology system  III

-         Privatize government services to maximum extent.

-         Pattern outsourcing on DDD initiatives. 

-         Housing II

-         Trash pick-up IIIIIIIIIIIIII

-         Convention Center II

-         Labor intensive jobs

-         All A+ Programs. II

-         Use immigrants to work for lower pay II

-         Privatize parks and recreations.  Or maybe these services should be contracted out.  IIIIII

-         Prison management IIIIIIIIIIIII

-         Hospitals III

-         Prisoners do road/freeway clean up II

-         Road repairs or maintenance IIIIIII

-         sanction department landscaping

-         Library system II

-         State harbors II

-         Eliminate DBED IIII

-         State mental hospital IIII

-         Pothole Agency – too many

-         Board of Water Supply

-         Privatize the bus service

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7.  Do you have any other specific concerns that you would like Representative Mark Moses to work on?

 

-         Get better pay jobs for working class

-         Ban all fireworks except for cultural and religious purposes II

-         Eliminate the “top three” rip-off of taxpayers

-         Cut spending

-         Civil service reform (downsize employees union power), develop mass transit, crime control, stimulate the economy, and downsize government by eliminating the “fat cats” in the bureaucracy

-         Cut CEO pay to give to workers

-         Eliminate redundancy in state/city government

-         Strong approach to cost control by privatization and energy saving performance contracts

-         Environment, traffic congestion, and deteriorating ponds and streams

-         Unicameral legislature.  Look into one or two prevailing wage rates for public work’s construction works.

-         Give UH West Oahu land to the Hawaiians and use the money to better UH Manoa

-         Traffic in Kapolei.  Make sure there is enough money to finish the high school

-         Band noise pollution, an example is firecrackers

-         Traffic lights fronting Kapolei Elementary and Middle School

-         Promote more businesses to state

-         Better systems to keep freeway clean and more signs on the freeway regarding fines for dumping

-         HGEA should be controlled or broken up.  Salary has to be based on merit.

-         Traffic problem.  Can there be tax breaks for carpooling? 

-         School system needs improvement

-         Banning fireworks and having law enforcement to uphold the ban

-         Legislative changes in the treatment of those with illness of addiction

-         Decrease political decision making in the government to maximize benefits for the people

-         State tax reduction for parents who send their kids to private schools

-         Fix the intersection at Makakilo Drive and Farrington Highway. Take immediate action. 

-         Better stop lights and put sensors on these lights especially at the intersection of Makakilo Drive and Farrington Highway

-         Tax cuts, education, and environmental concerns in Campbell Industrial Park

-         Continue work on soil and water pollution.  Stop taking money from UH

-         No more status quo

-         Stiffen penalty for speeding in a school zone

-          Too much money and resources given to the Felix vs. Cayetano lawsuit

-         Check the Department of Labor and see why they allow unlicensed doctors from the Mainland to practice

-         Educate kids, books for each student.  Tourism – do more to make it easier for foreign and US citizens to visit Hawaii

-         Concentrate on housing, public parks and flooding in Ewa.  Also have more pesticides in area

-         Raise standard of Public Education, more challenging curriculum and discipline

-         Put stop light at the corner of Palailai Street and Makakilo Drive.  Improve existing stoplights, especially at intersection of Makakilo Drive and Farrington Highway.

-         Stop light on Kunia Road going to Kunia

-         Construction of Kunia Elementary School completed in three years

-         Downsize the government and make it easier to control.

-         Too many Senators and Representatives in relation to Hawaii’s population

-         Begin building Kapolei library complete  in phases

-         More attention on economic issues, less on social

-         Contact Jay Dunn for technology information at 532-0483.  Works for Compaq Computer Corporation

-         Kapolei High School should open to all grades at once.  Legislators/Senators aids should be paid as clerks

-         Thanks for letting people be a part of state actions

-         Increase police in Kapolei.  Stop the use of off road motorcycles in residential areas.

-         Speed bumps in residential area, especially at Oaniani Street

-         Bring back Margerie Bronster as Attorney General

-         Make the extension of the UH-West Oahu

-         Support retirement buyout of state employees with 25 years or more of service to help to enhance downsizing.

-         Need more viable two party system

-         Enforce noise laws, more opportunities for diversified agriculture

-         System to control all traffic light runners, or people who run red lights.

-         Education

-         Shorten government office hours

-         Bring back death penalty

-         Senate is a disgrace

-         Civil Service Reform and Government Union Reform

-         Check light bulbs on streets

-         Some bust stops have no shelter

-         Public school parks need improvement

-         Stiffen the penalty for uninsured drivers

-         Get rid of the “rotten guys” in SHOPO

-         Make Campbell Industrial Park safer

-         Ban fireworks and promote the extension of Makakilo Drive to connect with H-I

-         Fix economy with business incentives, reform Bishop Estate

-         For the economy to be stimulated a climate for private enterprise and business need to be developed.  Government is so large and does not really produce income except through tax increases