2016-04-12 Regular Session Minutes

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requirements, but at this time they don't have any kind of process on Kauai. Mr. Robinson: Kauai is kind of its own separate Hui yeah. Ms. Yamauchi: But each County is different, has different rules, has different forms and so we have now been informed of all the different processes. Mr. Robinson: So the event that you invited Mr. Kanuha to, did you view that as a celebratory event. An event in which he would be honored and the County of Hawaii be honored. Ms. Yamauchi: Well we do it every year and we have always had the award category of outstanding elected leader. It had been before my time being at the Coalition since the Council member had been honored, but in 2014 we honored two. One was Council member Stanley Chang and then Council member Kanuha. I hope that you folks received our letter, my letter as well. In there I outlined the biggest difference between the two Council members being honored is that one lived on Oahu and one lived here. We don't want to discriminate and not be able to include neighbor island legislators and awardees as part of our pool of candidates. Mr. Adams: Madame Chair if I might. In the meeting, the stakeholder meeting, were there other folks from other neighbor islands that attended the meeting? Ms. Yamauchi: Yes. Mr. Adams: And were they paid for as well by the Coalition, there fares? Ms. Yamauchi: We paid for all of our staff members that are on neighbor islands. They each were able to invite one community member that we paid for and then any of the awardees that resided on neighbor islands were paid for. Mr. Adams: And that in this case was Mr. Kanuha. Were there others awardees that also received their fares from...County employees that received their fares from Coalition? Ms. Yamauchi: Not County. As I mentioned there was a youth who was an awardee from Maui. 21