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July 31, 2023, HSAC Meeting Minutes Page 1 3 0 S OF tOUNt�� CM Carvalho: Working on real property, repeals the tiered tax classification. Changing of the classification to hosted to owner occupant use. Residential tax classification to none. Deciding whether to tier the class tax process. CM Paltin: Maui change to owner occupied and non owner occupied. Has worked out really well. Sometimes when people get handed down generational properties and then are not using it as their main residence. Created a new classification for long term rentals to encourage people to rent it out long term rather than CM Kimball: Anything less than 180 days is taxed at a higher rate and homeowners lose the 3% cap on it. A lot of homeowners did not know about it. Looking at non -home owner occupied versus home owner occupied. Primary residence, home value will only go up as much as 3%, if you were in the dedicated ag program, did not have that cap, now if you are a farmer, you can cap at 3%. CM Waters: Created a bed and breakfast category, created a STR fee. Both are different. Have a bill to cap value not going up past 8%. CMKimball: 4 categories: hosted, non -hosted, bed & breakfast. CM Paltin: Short term rentals are taxed the same as B&B, they can qualms for homeowners exemption but if doing commercial, then it's different. iii. County of Maui CM Paltin: July 7, passed HSAC NA Co and WIR board, July 18 council meeting Maui adopted the GET half percent surcharge. Going into effect Jan 1. Tomorrow, in the gov relations ethics and transparency will be writing the legislation, getting a lot of testimony on the e foils, DLNR have been issuing permits, but it is not really compatible with the swimming use and people concerned about their safety. On July 18, part of the legislation passed language to deal with weapons owned by felons and air guns. Seeing people with air rifles and transporting them, causing alarm. Need to position the sale and replica of guns to felons. Have 8 - 11 state proposals. iv. City and County of Honolulu CM Waters: Share Big island concern about Governor's proclamation. We did 9 affordable housing projects approving a lot of projects, the hearing and the public testimony were super valuable. 104 AMI is market rate, HNL defines it as 120 AMI, construction worker is more like 60-80% AMI. This new committee being setup is not going to have the public input so will they hold the developer accountable. The last project approved initiated as 140% AMI, that is market