Councilman Tom Berg of Honolulu's District One announced he will seek re-election on January 3rd. District One covers West Oahu, including Ewa Beach, Kapolei, and Makaha. Berg touted his experience shaping development plans for the district and ensuring infrastructure is in place to support new projects like the proposed solar farm in Kalaeloa and shopping center in Kapolei. He also criticized disconnect between city priorities and residents' needs like affordable water and sewer rates. Berg believes his ideas and advocacy have served constituents and he will continue championing improvements if re-elected.

1. COUNCILMAN TOM BERG ANNOUNCES RE-ELECTION BID
December 30, 2011
Contact: James “Kimo” Kelii, Campaign Chair, Friends of Tom Berg
Phone: 256-1493
HAPPY NEW YEAR MEDIA!
Honolulu City Councilman Tom Berg will be announcing his candidacy for re-election on January
3, 2012, at noon, fronting Kapolei Hale.
District One, more commonly known as West Oahu, covers Ewa Beach to Makaha and is home to
the island’s only municipal landfill, construction landfill, and military landfill. It features the
second city of Kapolei, the state’s only historic residential district-Ewa Villages, a district in of
itself being Kalaeloa under the state’s jurisdiction, and job magnets located in Campbell Industrial
Park, Ko`Olina, and golf courses abound.
The numerous landmarks that adorn West Oahu range from the World War II battlegrounds of Ewa
Air Field within the former Barbers Point Naval Air Station to the pristine Kaena Point State Park
on the outskirts of Keawaula and Makua Valley. These sites have residents playing caretakers to
national treasures and Hawaiian history found nowhere else in the State.
“I am the candidate entrenched in the day to day operations of our district and fully engaged in the
transformations facing us in West Oahu. We are being inundated right now with having to
formulate the Waianae Coast Sustainable Communities Plan, the Ewa Development Plan, as well as
the Ewa Villages Master Plan and I have been there shaping resolve with my constituency in each
step of the process,” stated Councilman Tom Berg.
“There are many new developments on the horizon that require our district have an active, well
informed person at the helm to guide us and is able to make the right decisions that ensures we have
the infrastructure in place first to sustain these developments,” added Berg, saying that “We have
the Section 106 being executed for the proposed solar farm in Kalaeloa, the new shopping center
complex in Kapolei that is to rival the size of Ala Moana, the proposed Ho`Opili development,
Haseko’s lagoon, UHWO campus, and the rail just to name a few of the features in play.”
Berg also conveyed disconnect in priorities at City Hall between what the people need and what is
being produced, “When you factor in the entire Waianae Coast population which has only one way
in and out to serve them and our residents are unable to cope with water and sewer rates, something
is clearly broken.”
Berg went further on to state that it all comes down to priorities and electing the candidate that will
adhere to a sound fiscal policy and champion sorely needed improvements to our parks, roads, and
the basics. “I am that voice that you can count on to speak-up and challenge the status quo.”

2. “There is a huge potential to create jobs and small business opportunities in the high tech education,
transportation and medical fields, recycling and energy industries and also turn our fallow
agricultural lands back into productivity. Just take a short peek at the council’s website listing all of
the resolutions and bills authored to achieve these ends and you will find that Berg has no shortage
of innovative ideas,” stated his campaign chair, Kimo Kelii.
Overall, Berg’s focus in his first year of office has been to bring the private sector into the mix and
let them have a crack at developing the 386 acres the Department of Parks and Recreation is to get
from the Navy in Kalaeloa. The Council has passed his resolutions for preserving the historic
Barbers Point Riding Stables and to initiate a new public firing range for gun enthusiasts. Other
measure passing the Council were the creation of a flooding task force, and securing $1.5 million
for park improvements in the guise of a community benefits package to offset the presence of the
municipal landfill in the district.
“I have so many resolutions in the hopper right now just waiting to go through the hearing process.
My constituency is really very politically savvy and lets me know what needs to get advanced at
City Hall. They want ethics reform to implement a mandatory recusal policy for council members
when there is clearly a conflict of interest. Other measures are: getting the uninsured motorists off
the roads; stimulating job growth in West Oahu; resolving the landfill dilemma with new recycling
techniques; growing families instead of weeds by allowing retrofitted shipping containers to be
placed on certain properties; revamping sewer rate increases; ending subsidies for golf courses and
implementing additional compensation packages slated for specific communities in my district
having to deal with the rest of the island’s opala.”
Berg believes his campaign will be an ideal opportunity to get the word out that his team has served
with the utmost dedication and stopped bad bills from passing besides the various accomplishments
of their own that have served their constituents’ directives. “We are more than just hoping for
things to improve, we are acting on it and our weekly e-newsletters to constituents have proven thus
far that residents are participating in their civic duties and getting their voices heard like never
before.”
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Paid for by Friends of Tom Berg | PO Box 2295 | Ewa Beach, HI 96706
Email: tomberg00@yahoo.com | Telephone: 753-7324 | Website: BERGFORCOUNCIL.NET
CAMPAIGN CHAIR – James “Kimo” Kelii | TREASURER – Barbara Ilae