2015-05-18 South Kohala Community Development Plan Action Committee Minutes

Home

83 requires that there be written minutes of public meetings and with regard to 84 audio recordings that the law allows for anyone to record the meeting but it 85 is not a requirement. 86 BUSINESS OF COMMITTEE 87 1.Update/Discussion of Agenda Items by Council Members: District 1 – 88 Valerie Poindexter and District 9 – Margaret Wille 89 Dave Hirt – Reported that today was the first reading at county council of 90 the budget and there were 5.5 hours of public testimony (at the time that he 91 left the Waimea office to attend this meeting testimony was still on-going), 92 most of which was in regard to the use of Round Up. The second and final 93 reading is scheduled for June 1. st 94 Margaret Wille is working on a number of issues for the district such as 95 improving mass transit, the Waimea traffic circulation study, and a police 96 station for Waikoloa Village. 97 2.Subcommittee Reports 98 a.Long Term Education Planning – Joel Cohen 99 While Joel had no action to report, he brought up that vocational 100 education is extremely important, as well as post high school education. 101 He encouraged an assessment of what is available and urged anyone 102 with ideas to speak up. 103 Roger Harris explained that there is no high school in South Kohala, and 104 explained that there is a need for some good ideas that everyone could 105 get behind 106 b.General Plan Comprehensive Review 107 John Mueller introduced Ruth Smith, who organized a talk story in 108 Waikoloa for input on the General Plan that occurred. The write-up and 109 drafted recommendations from the talk story will be forthcoming for 110 approval at the next meeting. 111 Ruth reported that there were 120 people there and they did a walk 112 through with visuals on how the General Plan feeds back and forth to the 113 CDPs. The people in attendance were broken up into groups, and asked 114 to identify with stickers which items were the highest priority. She 115 explained that it was a laborious process, but an overall success. 116 Joel Cohen passed out a handout with his personal recommendations. 117 c.Other Reports – 118 i.Liaison Reports – 119 1.Waikoloa – Previously discussed. 120 2.Puako – Jojo Tanimoto asked if George Robertson could be the 121 representative for Puako and he agreed.