2017-01-10 Puna CDP FINAL Minutes

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2. Review of the PCDP Implementation Table and Action Committee Annual Schedule: Ron Whitmore thanked the Action Committee for their commitment and service to their communities. He explained that he was recently appointed as the Deputy Director for Research and Development (R&D) and he hopes to work collaboratively across agencies. Ron explained that the Planning Departments' role vis a vi the Action Committee and the rest of the Community in terms of CDP implementation is to support, provide the tools needed to be effective, and help with making good use of time. He reiterated that the Puna CDP throughout its creation and now through its implementation has been very good at matching form and function. For example; the action table provided in the plan, the implementation of subcommittees, and the annual reports, etc. After the Puna Community Leaders Meeting on November 19, 2016, Planning Staff revisited the action table and developed a revised Action -Objective Alignment Table. This excel based table allows you to easily sort action items based on PCDP sections or strategy types. Also included in the table is the current status of the action item, current CIP status, and community comments such as those received at the November 19th meeting. Strategy Types are defined as the following: • County Policies: Controls established at adoption that limit the range of decisions that can be made in the future (approximately 3% of action items) • County Actions: Guides to future priorities and initiatives, not mandated or legally -binding, often require additional legislative and administrative directives (e.g., land acquisition, capital improvements, code changes) (approximately 50% of action items) • Other Non -County Action: Actions outside County jurisdiction (approximately 29% of action items) • Aspirational Policy: General statements of what the community is aspiring to (can be defined as goals) (approximately 17% of action items) • Community: Actions outside County jurisdiction that community groups could initiate (approximately 1% of action items) The PCDP Action -Objective Table can be viewed and downloaded from the following website: http://records.co.hawaii.hi.us/weblink/1/doc/85061/Pagel.aspx Ron also pointed out that County and State legislative dates have been added to the Puna CDP Annual Schedule to help AC members as they plan how and when to implement certain actions. The updated AC Annual Schedule, Communication No. 2017-3 can be viewed and downloaded from the following website: http://records.co.hawaii.hi.us/weblink/1/doc/85052/Pagel.aspx — Response to Communication No. 2016-34: Report of Puna Community Leaders Meeting: Hans provided some background on how the Puna Community Leaders Meeting came to be, Councilmembers Eileen Ohara and Jen Ruggles, along with Jon Olson (long time community leader) wanted to provide a voice for Puna. The idea was to take the feedback they received at the meeting and present a priority list to the new administration. Communication No. 2016-34 is the report compiled by Council staff summarizing the meeting and all of the comments that were received. Preparing a response to Communication No. 2016-34 was simplified by using the PCDP Objective and Action Alignment Table. It was found that every comment received at www. cohplanninQdept.com puna(Whawaiicounty.Qov Page 3