2007-05-14 Public Access, Open Space and Natural Resources Preservation Commission Minutes

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Mr. Yada stated the owners of Waipi`o asked for an extension till the end of July; they were doing a separate appraisal. The appraiser they are working with is fairly busy so he asked for more time to get that done. Mr. Yada stated that he sent out an e -mail to the Commissioner's about the Council's consideration of a resolution for the purchase of Punalu`u. Mr. Yada stated the reason why he e- mailed everyone was because it was a resolution that refers to using this Commission's funds to authorizing acquisition. His concern was whether the Resolution accurately described some of the assumptions that went in to the Resolution. If some of the statements and assumptions in there were not correct, at least the Commissioners were aware of and they could make comments if they wish to. The result of that Resolution was that they took it off the public hearing so there was no action on the Resolution. He has not heard when that public hearing will be. Ms. Self stated there were going to be corrections on this. Bob Jacobson's aide called her and she corrected different things. Mr. Jacobson was actually looking at the first report that this Commission sent to the Mayor instead of the most recent one. Mr. Jacobson had the ranking wrong and she corrected that. However, there still was a problem that they brought up at the Council meeting that they have the wrong TMK numbers. Mr. Yada noticed that some of the TMK's are not even in that area. Mr. Yada mentioned that he noted the Commission's recommendations had "various coastal areas" and Mr. Jacobson's resolution had specific TMK's. Whether the TMK's reflected what the intent of the Commission was when they said "coastal areas" he has no idea. He was not around for discussions earlier last year. That was a reason for his concern as to insuring that it truly reflected what the Commission intended in their recommendations to the Mayor with regards to Punalu`u. Ms. Self noticed that in the Resolution it said, "2,000 feet inland" and she didn't think that the Commission put that in the report. Mr. Yada stated that was some of the issues they had when the Council came up with their various Resolutions for acquisition. He would hate to see the Commission's recommendations interpreted in different ways to suit someone else's purpose. Mr. Yada wanted to make sure that the Commission's intents are accurately described in these actions. Mr. Yada stated the other thing he wanted to follow up on was the drafted notice letter that Stacie mailed out to prior applicants. Those were mailed out together with the new suggestion form. He asked Stacie if she knew exactly when she mailed it out. Ms. Waltjen replied that she mailed out approximately 190 envelopes last week. So far, she received five envelopes back because of "wrong address" or "no longer there." 31