2015-06-22 South Kohala Community Development Plan Action Committee Minutes

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38 John Mueller suggested contacting Roger Harris to let him know that 39 they are going to have a meeting and that they’d like to know what his 40 ideas are. 41 b.General Plan Comprehensive Review – Jojo Tanimoto, Joel Cohen, John 42 Mueller – The Subcommittee will report on discussions on potential 43 amendments and comments to the General Plan Comprehensive Review 44 which will be forwarded to the Planning Department. 45 John Mueller reported on the Waikoloa Community Meeting regarding 46 the General Plan Update and he directed everyone to his hand out “South 47 Kohala Community Turns Out to Comment on the County General Plan.” 48 Joel Cohen reported that he had a meeting with Margaret Wille at the 49 Waimea Civic Center. There were 30 people in attendance and most of 50 them were directly involved with organizations. He said they spoke 51 about cultural education, renewable energy, recycling, education, 52 farming, low cost housing, pedestrian trails, countywide transportation, 53 water, and shelters. He said the bottom line is that there is a lot of 54 participation from people and a lot of enthusiasm. 55 Jojo Tanimoto had no report. Diane Kaneali’i asked Jojo if there had been 56 any meetings scheduled to meet in Kawaihae, and Jojo explained that 57 they originally started out meeting there, but no one came to those 58 meetings. Diane explained that she had not been aware of any meetings, 59 and said that it’s hard to participate when no one is being informed. 60 They continued to discuss the subcommittee, and Diane Kaneali’i 61 volunteered to assist Jojo with the General Plan Update Subcommittee 62 and the Kawaihae Liaison Group. 63 c.Other Reports – 64 There was some clarification and discussion in regard to the letter Diane 65 drafted to simplify the process of getting information from other 66 community meetings. Diane clarified the need of a list of who to send this 67 letter to. John Mueller asked each of the members to think about the 68 community, and what are some groups that they feel would be 69 interested in sharing their minutes. Joel Cohen brought up the idea of 70 having each member having point of contacts throughout the community 71 to create a communication network. 72 Jojo asked that they have a discussion on changing the password on the 73 email address next time. John brought up the G-Mail account, and that 74 there is the issue of the Sunshine Law. He asked Deanne Bugado to get 75 the password from Kit Roehrig. 76 i.Liaison Reports – 77 1.Waikoloa – No update.