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Dave mentioned that one of the elements beside the Open Space Network that was left out of 80 the draft plan was the Storm Drain and Flood Control plan because of the lack of quantified 81 numbers that could be turned into a dollar amount. 82 Marni Herkes motioned that the Action Committee has received, reviewed and accepts as 83 presented, with the amended pages 31, 42, 50, 51, 66, 95, 96 & 99, the draft Financing 84 Plan for Public Facilities and Backbone Infrastructure as prepared by the Goodwin 85 Consulting Group. The Action Committee acknowledges the excellent work done in 86 fulfilling their contractual obligations by PBR Hawaii in assembling the background data, 87 infrastructure requirements and cost estimates and for the thorough and thoughtful 88 presentation by the Goodwin Consulting Group of the range of financing tools available in 89 creating this solid basis for future decision-making. 90 The Action Committee requests that the Planning Department secure funding to extend 91 the scope of services of the Goodwin Consulting Group engagement to include 92 discussions with the development community, the public and the County Council on the 93 intricacies of the implementation of the financing tools available. Further, the Action 94 Committee requests that the Administration pursue the needed legislative adjustments to 95 fully implement a full value Impact Fee island-wide which is applicable to all new building 96 permits and to introduce legislation to make the needed adjustments to fully activate the 97 full use of Tax Increment Financing so that a fair portion of the rising tax revenues from 98 growth in Kona can be directed toward creating the much needed infrastructure within the 99 areas of the Kona CDP. 100 Bob Ward seconded the motion. The discussion of the Committee resulted in a proposed 101 amendment to include the following sentence “Finally, that the adopted version of the Public 102 Facilities Financing Plan include provisions for the implementation of an Open Space Network 103 Plan.” The maker of the motion agreed to the amendment as well the second. The motion 104 passed unanimously. 105 3. Open Space Network. 106 Staff reported that per request from the Action Committee at the last meeting the base-line 107 map has been uploaded to the Kona CDP website: 108 http://www.hawaiicountycdp.info/north-and-south-kona-cdp/action-committee- 109 application/kcdp-action-committee-sub-committee-activities/the-land-use-environmental- 110 cultural-resources-sub-committee 111 Staff has created folders for the documents/maps generated by the Action Committee and 112 Sub-Committees and as information is disseminated, the website will be updated. 113 Sub-Committee members shared that the next steps would be extensive and would need a 114 broad range of expertise to develop the baseline information and definitions. 115 Discussion continued within the Action Committee on the proposed modifications to the 116 baseline map with the known/approved “reserved” parcels/spaces that will need to be fully 117 investigated to identify the parameters (to develop the GIS layers). 118 The sub-committee was asked to share a bullet list of what would be included within an open 119 space definition for the Action Committee to discuss. 120 Page 3 of 5