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Wednesday, January 8, 1997 A-5 JS. Star-ltolletin State report on environmental goals ready for launch Neighborhood boards have few candidates million in 1991 to $2.7 million last year, he said. "This really Is a new way of approaching environmental protection," Anderson said. "It's an effort on our part to make us much more efficient." A For example, Anderson said, the department will allow consultants to review environmental permits before they are submitted to ensure private projects don't get caught up in red tape. And health officials will use benchmarks to monitor its progress.

The department plans to present these goals to city neighborhood boards and Chamber of led to the creation of the task force, said details on the environmental goals will be included in a "State of the Environment" report to the legislature later this month. Specifically, these objectives require the state Department of Health to focus efforts to: Ensure Hawaii's coastal waters are safe and healthy for people and marine life; Protect and restore Hawaii's streams, wetlands estuaries and other inland waters for fish and wildlife, recreation, aesthetic enjoyment and other uses; Protect Hawaii's groundwater from contamination for drinking, irrigation and other uses; Protect Hawaii's lands from pollutants that endanger people and the environment, and to rehabilitate contaminated lands; and Protect and enhance Hawaii's air quality for health and aesthetic enjoyment. Bruce Anderson, deputy health director, said the state will base environmental protection on risk to human health and ecosystems, while balancing such protection with economic impacts. State funding for environmental protection a $700 million business that employs 5,000 people in Hawaii has shrunk from $6 I yt -'V Rod Tarn ByPatOmandam Star-Bulletin After more than a year of work and at a cost of $15,000, a broad-based task force has come up with statewide goals to make environmental protection more user friendly and to give the state more bang for its environmental buck. The goals a collaboration of community, business and government brainstorming seeks to avoid the conflicts often found between environmentalists and government striving to keep Hawaii clean, said Sen.

Rod Tarn, outgoing chairman of the Senate Committee Environmental Protection and Ecology. In the past, Tarn (D, Downtown-Nuuanu) explained, the Legislature had difficulty properly funding environmental programs due to the fighting and "emotionalism" between the different parties. Therefore, such funding was not done fairly, he said. i "All parties were fighting among each other and accomplishing very little to protect and clean Hawaii's environment due to the lack of common environmental goals and objectives," Tarn said yesterday. Tarn, who initiated legislation last year which Commerce associations for their input.

"Environmental protection will no longer be low priority in the Legislature. It will receive its fair share of funding," said Tam, who becomes House education committee chairman this legislative session beginning next Wednesday. terfered with a business transaction. Seven Oahu board members quit their posts after the settlement. A proposal requiring the city to defend board members has been bottled up at the City Council.

But Spray said the case should not discourage those thinking of running for a board seat. "Neighborhood board members just need to remember that their job is to advise, at all levels of government," he said. "Then there's no problem at all. They can be very effective in advising different groups of people." Board members have the ears of area lawmakers and help them assign priorities for their neighborhoods, Spray said. Many local politicians also got their career starts as neighborhood board members, he said.

Ballots for neighborhood board elections will be sent out March 24-28 to all those who voted in the 1996 fall elections. Typically, about 30 percent of the ballots are returned and counted, Spray said. Others may register to vote by filling out applications available at libraries, satellite city halls, fire stations and park facilities. Registration must be done by Jan. 21.

Voters must be Oahu residents age 18 and over on Jan. 21. Also eligible are military personnel, their dependents and legal residents. Returned ballots must be postmarked by April 21. Results will be announced May 1.

For information, call the Neighborhood Commission at 527-5579. By Gordon Y.K. Pang Star-Bulletin With just two weeks left to file candidacy papers for neighborhood boards on Oahu, only 80 people have filed for 456 available seats. But Elwin Spray, elections coordinator for the Neighborhood Commission, said he's not worried just yet. "Quite frankly, that's not great," he said of the low number.

"But a lot of people turn them in at the last minute." There are 32 neighborhood boards, including the new Militant Mauka-Launana Valley board, the new kid on the block. Any Oahu resident, military personnel or legal resident alien over age 18 can be a candidate for a two-year term. Candidate forms can be obtained at libraries, satellite city halls, fire stations and park facilities. There are several boards which perennially come up short on candidates. If, as in the case of the Palolo board two years ago, less than half of a designated quorum is available, the Neighborhood Commission asks to have outgoing board members held over.

Palolo and other boards are seeking to avoid that problem this year by reformatting their make-up to include more at-large seats. Spray said he doesn't know whether the settlement of a lawsuit last year which cost the city and two Manoa Neighborhood Board members $39,000 is affecting interest in joining the boards. A landowner had successfully argued that the two Manoa members wrongfully in DL45 I E85 jgA APY APY 18 months 30 months 500.00 Mttv Ptpotlt $500 JO Mtn. CXpoift Each depositor insured up to $100,000 by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. I The Annua) Percentage Yield (APY) is effective as of December 18, 1996.

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