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The Committee next discussed the possibility of having members be given the opportunity to provide comments concerning land use applications submitted to the Planning Department. Mr. Dunlap indicated that the problem is that there might not be a timetable on which this could be accomplished. Mr. Roehrig suggested that the Committee be notified of all applications. Mr. Fischer noted that various government agencies and other groups such as the South Kohala Taffic Safety Committee are given the opportunity to submit comments and urged that the Committee be allowed to participate utilizing the same time table. Mr. Roehrig then made a motion that the Planning Department notify the Committee of applications to the Planning Department and that two members of the Committee, to be determined by the Committee, would then review the applications and submit commentary to the Planning Department (prior to any determination by the Planning Department regarding the application) concerning whether the granting of the application would be consistent with the South Kohala CDP, such comments to be submitted within the same time frame as that used for the solicitation by the Planning Department of comments from other government departments and agencies and other private groups such as the South Kohala Traffic Safety Committee, it being understood that the two Committee members would be required to report to the full Committee at the next Committee meeting regarding any commentary so provided. The motion was seconded and after discussion was approved unanimously. Mr. Dunlap then reported that a meeting of two representatives of the North Kohala CDP AC and two represerntatives of the South Kohala CDP AC and representatives of the Planning Department is scheduled for September 25, 2012, to discuss ways to make the action committees more effective. He anticipates that meetings of representatives of all CDP action committees within the County of Hawai’i will begin thereafter. Ms. Tanimoto then asked the Chair to identify the person who made a presentation about geothermal energy to the North Kohala CDP Action Committee so that a similar presentation might be made to the South Kohala CDP Action Committee. Mr. Fischer agreed to do so. Mr. Roehrig than reported on the status of the response to the letter sent to Corporation Counsel requesting an opinion regarding the powers of the Action Committee. He indicated that an attorney in the office of the Corporation Counsel had been assigned to the task. The consensus of the Committee was to invite the attorney preparing the opinion to attend a Committee meeting to discuss the opinion, and that he or she be requested to finalize the opinion before the September meeting of the Committee. The next item on the Agenda was statements from the public. George Robertson urged the Committee members to speak with local community 4