Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Volume IX, Number 25, 1 October 1936 — PACHECO TEN-POINT PROGRAM CAN BE DONE WITHOUT MORE BOND ISSUES – EXTRA TAXES [ARTICLE]

PACHECO TEN-POINT PROGRAM CAN BE DONE WITHOUT MORE BOND ISSUES - EXTRA TAXES

The $10,000,000 public improvement program proposeci by Mayor Fred Wright would increase the tax rate of property owners on Oahu by 60 percent—-or by $18.00 per $1,000 valuatioii on the present rate of s6me $30.00 per $1,000 valuation—it was brought out by Democratie speakers during Ihe week just closing. Not only would the plan increase the tax rate by $18.00 per $1,000 valuatioii, but it also would disrupt and completely wreck the system under whieh thousands of property owners have obtained aid from New Deal agencies such as the Home Owners' Loan Corporation and the Federa! Housing Administration, as the monthly payments made to discharge debts incurred or refunded under these tvvo branches of the New Deal are based upon the tax rate irr)posed upon the property involved. Paeheeo ReveaU Plan Meanwhile Supervisor Manuel C. Paeheeo, the Democratic candidate for mayor, has thrown the Republican ranks into eomplele confusion with his own 10-point program of public improvemehts whieh will not involve either issuance of further county bonds—an impossibility under the present provisions of the Organic Act—or additional levies upon the property owners of Oahu.. Supervisor. Pacheco's program, whieh would be financed out of current revenues and henee would not enta.il additional bond issues or any increase in the property tax rate. follows: 1. Developmpnt of public work» iroprovements with the fulle»t cooperation with the Work» Progrea» Administration administrator in Hawaii to provide work for the unemp!oyed. In this eonneelion Supervisor Paeheeo charged, the present city and county administration, with its policy of squandering public fu.nds, has not made sufficient provision for money to purchase the neeessary materials and supplies whieh must be furnished by the loeal governmental agencies on WPA projects on whieh the labor is furnished by the federal Works Progress Administration. Confer With Locey "Ii I arn c]e(*ted mayor of this city and county at the Saturday primary," SuperviHor Paeheeo declared, "one of my act>; wiii be to hold a conferenc.e with Frank H, Locey, Territorial administrator of the WPA, to work out some mulua' ararngement by whieh the WPA will be furnished promptly and immediately with the necessary materials aud supplies on whieh that New Deal organi?.ation furnishes the labor. That will be mv first eoneem after ī am elected," 2. Systematic modernization of the «treet Hghting »y»tem of Honolulu through installation of the roo»t up-to-date illuminating facilitie», because Honolulu, even in it» mo»t den»e!y-popu!ated district», is back in the "hor»e and buggy days" of some 30 or 40 years ago. īn order to accelerate accomplishment of this "plank", in his platform, Supervisor Paeheeo declared that he woiūā the 1937 legislat«re to so amenā the laws re- ; garding city and county finances as to permit the use of road funds for lighting. He pointed out that properJ lighting of the Bireets is just as mueh a part of the road program as the paving of the highways. 3. Installai>on of traffic ccnlrol signals ; simi!ar to but more modern tlian ihe present experimental insta!lation of these !ights at the inter-section of Beretania and Nuuanu avenues. j Conduct of this program also would rest greatly upon the action in amending the present road fund; ]aw, Supervisor Paeheeo said. | 4. Encouragement of the construction of »»dewa!ks J in pre»ent un-sidēwaJkcd areaSj and general improvement j of sidewalk arcas, for the improvement of general »afety conditions throughout the community. In connection with this point, Supervisor. Paeheeo said that he also would eall upon the assist4nce of the WPA through Administrator Locey. 5. Preparation of e»timate» for the installation of »anit.ary sewers in distvicts now sejrved only by highly unsanitary cesspools. * 6. Con»truction of a new city and county jaiL The present institution, Supervisor Paeheeo declared, "is a disgi'āi.'o to thi« civili2ed community—men, women and first offenders are huddled there in a highly unhealthful atmosphere like animals," 7. Assisting m the location and construction of a. fedcral soldiors' homo for indigent, incapacitated or crippled world ,wars. In this comiection Supervisor Paeheeo pointed to the numerous veterans of these wars resident on Oahu and dec.lared tbat "it is more fitting that the city and county recognize their services to our county than it is that the municipality shouid buil4 » boat-house for the convenienee of ver> few boat erews, as has been done by the present city aiui eounty admnistration." 8. Improvenwnt of facilitie* and &cconvodations nt

Indi4g£nt Hqpie, human.itftri£n po!ic|es laid dowi? by President Rooseve!t and carried out through the New Deal sQcift| security act. 9. Proper maintenance of roads and |treeU i» Honolulu prqper īn the e2sce!!ent. maßner as this i$ carried pi|t now by the Territorial Highway Department in rural Oahu under the Democr«.tic Territorial administration« The difference in the condition of streets and highways iu Honoiulu proper, as compared with rural Oahu, is easily apparent to any person riding m an automobile, Supervisor Paeheeo, dftcUred. 10, Revi&ion of exi»ting traffic regulations. Pointing to the tremendoub loss of life and pi'operty that,hiis heen caused b>- automobile accidents in , recent years under law» and ordinances created by Re.publicaja boarcus of «upervisors, Supervisor paeheeo pledged himself to ioitiate a £eneral of those ancicnt and o.bsolete reguJations in favor of modern restrictions based upon preesnt-day traffic conditions and travel msthods. "While mi Republican opponenl b about a $10,000,000 public ijDoprovement pi ogram spread over thq next five years in Honoīulu, withoul takmg tlie troub!<? to tell you where the moncy is i-oming fram or what ef-. fect it wlīī have upon, your Uxes," Super\isot Paeheeo said, "I am for consideration of my iO-pptnt pro£UUU, v»ŪI satisfy «ill ihe needs of out: growing communitj in the immedbte future and eaa Le finapced without recourse to any bcmd i&sue or to any appreciable in taxe», "For more than 20 ycars they havc been eme "The Watchdog of the City and Coimty's Treasuiy." I ean continue U> merit that luekname and atill carry on niy program—for it moans no bond issuos and no increaae3 in tax rates."