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Lawsuits dismissed; Leilani Estates board to submit $500,000 grant request for alternate Kohiki Road route
Summary
The association reported dismissal of two lawsuits with prejudice and approved submitting a grant application seeking $500,000 to reestablish an alternate safety route from Leilani Estates to Kohiki Road; board members named contractors and a fiscal sponsor assisting with the application.
Speaker 10 (Smiley Burrows) told the meeting that “both lawsuits have been officially over” and that a judge signed a final order dismissing one case with prejudice. She said membership had voted to drop suits and described the dismissals as “freeing” the community from a divisive burden.
Smiley Burrows also outlined a grant application the board planned to submit the next day to fund an alternate safety route to Kohiki Road. She stated that the awards pool included $6,000,000 from a $17,000,000 distribution for Kilauea victims and that the association would request “the full $500,000 to make this road appropriately usable.” She named contracting and engineering partners (Ika Marzo, John Younger and Evan Wallman) and the fiscal sponsor (Robert Golden’s Puna Rising nonprofit). "We will probably find out whether or not we're accepted with the funding in January," she said.
The announcement led to brief procedural questions and an affirmation from the board to proceed with the submission; no formal vote to approve the application was recorded in the transcript, but the speaker said the application would be submitted with the board’s agreement. The association also noted a 10% fiscal-sponsor fee and a 3% grant-writing allocation from that fee as part of the sponsorship arrangement.
