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1 Kona Community Development Plan Action Committee 2 County of Hawaii 3 Minutes 4 Meeting Date: July 24, 2013 5 Call to Order 2:02 p.m. nd 6 Place: Kona Planning Conference Room. Bldg. E, 2 Floor 7 West Hawaii Civic Center 8 74-5044 Ane Keohokalole Highway 9 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii 96740 10 Roll Call: 11 1. Members Present: George (Keoki) Schattauer Jr., 12 Aaron Nagata, Hiram Rivera, Bo Kahui, Greg Ogin, Elaine Fukushima, 13 Chauncey Wong Yuen, Douglas Payne 14 2. Planning Department: Bennett Mark, Terry Dunlap & Roz Newland 15 3. Corporation Counsel: Margaret Masunaga 16 4. Public in attendance: Marnie Herkes, Wayne Burkamp, Debbie Hecht, 17 Mana Purdy and Matt Binder 18 19 Introduction of Doug Payne, new member of the Kona Community Development Action 20 Committee. 21 STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC REGARDING ITEMS ON AGENDA 22 23 Debbie Hecht spoke on monies set aside to purchase open space. Recommend that the Action 24 Committee get involved and lead the way to instigate using funds to purchase open space. 25 Discussion about matching funds available to the County. 26 27 Marnie Herkes spoke on promoting effective government as a guiding principal of the plan. 28 Discussion of concurrency that nothing should go through without all components completed. 29 Concurrency has been stretched to an unreasonable extent by the planning department. These 30 concurrency elements should be broken up into realistic sections that can be funded. 31 We need to be realistic. Show the planning that puts everything in place, thats effective 32 government. Concerned on the direction the county is taking. Things were to be planned and 33 would happen as funds became available. This is the time to get our people back to work with 34 the resurgence of development. Effective government is the most effective way to achieve our 35 goals. We are imposing a whole new mechanism of growth on an existing system.