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WATANABE: Is that what you are proposing? SALAVEA: Sorry. They won’t individually be doing a presentation on the areas. What we can do is if we have a question for Puako, if we could ask all the Commissioners, you know, about their questions for that particular section to direct the questions at that time, since we have that person. But they won’t be doing presentations individually on each area. WATANABE: Okay, thank you. SALAVEA: With that, I’d like to begin by outlining the South Kohala CDP by beginning with the Community Readiness Program that preceded. The CRP was a collaborative effort between the Department of R & D and the Planning Department. Beginning in 2006 and 2007, over 1,200 people, or roughly 9 percent of the total population, participated in over 80 talk-story sessions. The Community Readiness Project data served to help the Steering Committee prioritize the community’s input and select priority issues that would be the focus of the South Kohala CDP. In August 2007 the Steering Committee was asked to prioritize land use issues for the entire district based upon the results from the Community Readiness Project. The priority issues that the Steering Committee selected were the following: preserve culture/sense of place, traffic and transportation, affordable housing, emergency preparedness, and environmental stewardship and sustainability.At a subsequent Steering Committee meeting priority issues for four South Kohala communities were discussed – around the Waimea, Waikoloa, Kawaihae and Puako areas. It was then agreed that the South Kohala CDP would focus on planning for these four communities, rather than attempting to develop action programs on a district-wide basis. In effect, then the South Kohala CDP became a collection of four distinct community plans. The Steering Committee then prepared to hold the first pair of community meetings on August th 29 in Waimea and August 30, 2007, in Waikoloa to accomplish the following: first was to introduce the Steering Committee to the community, also to introduce Townscape and its staff to the community, third item was to report back to the community regarding the CRP process, fourth was to outline the process and timeline of the South Kohala CDP, and fifth to begin recruiting community members to participate as Focus Group members in the Focus Group process. From October through December of 2007 the Focus Groups for the Puako, Kawaihae, Waikoloa and Waimea areas were formed, and met approximately 18 times. As a result of those meetings Townscape was able to produce working papers, which serves as the basis of the South thth Kohala CDP. On February 12 and 15 in 2008 the Steering Committee hosted the second pair of community meetings to accomplish the following: first to update the community regarding the Focus Group phase, second to validate the information developed in the Focus Groups meetings by presenting the working papers to the community, and third to outline the next steps for the South Kohala CDP process and update the timeline. From the end of February through April the Steering Committee, Focus Groups and Townscape worked on developing the South Kohala CDP. And on May 7, 2008, the public review draft was released for comment and input from the greater community. To facilitate this process, the following outreach was done. Over 9,500 fliers were sent to all postal recipients in the South Kohala community, outlining the following: the South Kohala CDP EXHIBIT E 3