2019-11-15 HCHA Approved Minutes

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Special HCHA meeting November 15, 2019 Eoff: Okay. Thank you. Poindexter: Thank you. Eoff: Okay go ahead and introduce yourself and we'll kind of stick to our normal format of (inaudible) three minutes. Olson (Public Testifier): Okay. John Olson from Puna. Just an FYI Don Swanson published an update in 2015 on the eruptive activity of Kilauea over the last 3,000 years definitively by chemistry and going back 15,000 years more generally. So there is more updated data laying out there if you want to find it. I haven't actually had a chance to talk to him about it yet but. Beyond that everybody sitting here knows how we got to where we are in terms of the infrastructure that is in hazard zones one and two. The fact that we haven't come up with a plan to allow people who were not informed to withdrawal from the area has always been a bone of contention, certainly with me. As you all know I was...1 chaired the Puna CDP, the one that is standing at the moment. I'm very familiar with the area and the problem with it. The fact that the monies need to be spent in a way that benefits the people who are there and allows them to withdrawal if they choose to...l'm not here speaking for myself, my house went...but I was informed, I knew...I knew the dog I bought, I knew what the crack in the back yard meant, I'd gone up and listened to Don Swanson's lectures, I can't say the rest is true for my neighbors. They were not informed. And we all know how that came about. That is wasn't put on your deed at the time. That you are in a hazard zone...no one knew. The mass majority of the people who bought 20 years or more ago were uninformed. So we have an obligation to right that wrong. We have an opportunity here to do that. And I'm looking forward to working with you to make that happen. If there's any other thing I would like to have some input on is...we have the historical town of Pdhoa which is in lava zone two and to maintain that and make some improvements for the economy there going forward we need to find a way to do that. Not sink a whole lot of money in it, but while we have it, to preserve it. And it is an economic boom and get working as is in the CDP on a new economic zone for that area which is basically the new Pdhoa, which is on the other side of the line. And to that end, go look at our new shopping center. Thank you. Eoff: Thank you Mr. Olson. Also, Susan Kim. Hi. Kim (Public Testifier): Hi. Thank you for this opportunity. I'm not really familiar with the CDBG so I do have a few follow up questions for you guys mostly, not to Council. Eoff: you can...you can just ask them and then we'll try and address them. Page 20 of 31