LIHU’E — A claim by a project opponent of mayoral influence on a proposed retreat center in Kapahi drew denials Thursday from the Kaua’i County Planning Commission. During a hearing on the retreat, Bert Lemke contended that Mayor Maryanne Kusaka
LIHU’E — A claim by a project opponent of mayoral influence on a proposed
retreat center in Kapahi drew denials Thursday from the Kaua’i County Planning
Commission.
During a hearing on the retreat, Bert Lemke contended that
Mayor Maryanne Kusaka is for the project and has pressured her appointees on
the commission to support it.
Kusaka does support the project, according to
spokeswoman Beth Tokioka.
Several commission members took exception to
Lemke’s claim that Kusaka is pressuring them.
Gary Baldwin, chairman, said
in his five years on the commission that Kusaka has never asked him to vote a
certain way.
Commission member Ed MacDowell objected to what he called an
inference that commissioners don’t think for themselves.
Staff writer
Paul C. Curtis can be reached at 245-3681 (ext. 224) and
pcurtis@pulitzer.net
