Monday
02Oct
No "Fore!" in Puna
Monday, October 2, 2006 at 11:45AM A good example of what results when you complain loudly enough for a long enough time is listed in the current weekly county newsletter. Two terrific golf courses in West Hawaii are now designated county municipal courses -- Makalei and Waikoloa Village -- allowing residents to play at low municipal fees. Kona people have long griped about the lack of recreational facilities, especially the fact that Hilo has a municipal golf course and Kona had none, and how they're being cheated out of their tax money, blah, blah, blah. But look what happened.
Now Kona has two real spiffy muni golf courses, Hilo has one pretty good one, and Puna has, well, anyone notice? Not one golf course.
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Reader Comments (2)
The county was able to negotiate lower green fees with
Makalei and Waikoloa (Which will expire in the near future)
Golf courses are not all there cracked up to be. They evidently cost 1 million a hole to build and have costly
reoccurring fees. Take the Hilo Municipal Golf Course, it
is my understand it is always in the red.