October 22, 2016 FINAL SC Minutes

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active in promoting agriculture education and support advocacy for farmers. First of all, thank everybody on this Committee. I could spend my whole 3 minutes thanking you folks on what a wonderful job you folks have done and really gathering so much mana'o from —from our district. A couple things I just really wanted to touch on real quick and that was to follow up with Councilwoman Poindexter on agriculture, specifically Section 6.18 Develop increased capacity for County level agricultural specialist. I'd like to see that change to: Develop a County - based Department of Agriculture and really get specific on this so that we can really make sure that the resources are — hit the ground at the local level and there's so much more that we can be doing to be supporting our farmers. A lot of collaboration has been going on but I think the County can really step up and play a — a really important role 'cause they're the ones we have the most access to and — and so I'd like to see that. And then another item, you know, building a sustainable local economy, I was kinda spurred to come here today because of some developments within the current County Council, in particular with ag tourism and a current Bill #227 that's pretty much promoting tourism in our agriculture and rural communities. The way the Bill is written, you really don't even have to be a farmer because of the loopholes that are contained in this to conduct tourism. And to me, it really kinda scares me because of the — you know, the experience that we've had in Waipi'o Valley and the mixture of tourism and agriculture, not to say that it cannot work, but a blanket zoning change basically to allow that type of activity in our rural communities, we really have to be careful with that 'cause it can potentially cause a lot of problems. So, I'd like to see that addressed in the CDP as well, that tag tourism can be allowed but there has to be a sufficient safeguards for the community and a place for the community to be able to voice their concerns and opinions instead of pitting neighbor against neighbor. And, what I heard at the testimony the other day that the — the industry will police itself, that's always a dangerous situation. So, you know, again, I'd like to see that addressed in this — building a sustainable local economy and that we have to address these issues. Thank you so much. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Mr. Moniz identified an error on page 15 of the draft minutes —the motion to maintain the January 2016 Draft CDP agricultural designation for parcel 2-7-003:024 should read "The motion passed with 5 votes aye and 1 vote nay." Mr. Kurokawa moved to approve the September 28, 2016 draft minutes as amended — reflecting the edits made on page 15. Second by Ms. Pahi'o. Motion passed with 7 votes aye and 0 votes nay. BUSINESS: 1. Consideration of Other Proposed Revisions to Draft CDP: Ms. Gloor introduced the CDP team members and their roles. She outlined the remaining steps toward CDP adoption, reviewed the format for discussion during the meeting, and went over the role of the Steering Committee during the review of community input. She asked the Steering Committee to honor the process that has occurred thus far and to maintain the integrity of the process moving forward. Mr. Agres outlined the steps the Steering Committee would follow while going through document #3. Page 15