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2. Ren6 Siracusa: Regarding Implementation Strategy #6: /used to be the champion — PCMC <br />is STILL the community partner. Whoever becomes champion should meet with Ralph <br />Boyea or Steve Sparks to get up to date & learn how the AC can help. <br />Ten people signed up to testify. One person chose to testify at the start of the meeting and nine <br />people chose to testify at the time of their agenda item. <br />1. Ren6 Siracusa, representing Malama 0 Puna testified on agenda item #1: She encouraged <br />the Action Committee to use the Public Access, Open Space and Natural Resources <br />Preservation Commission to move some of their identified priorities forward. For <br />example, Ren6 suggested nominating parcels abutting the Hawaii Volcanoes National <br />Park as a potential way of creating the desired buffer zone. She shared that the Puna <br />Medical Facility continues to move forward and they will soon begin their feasibility <br />study. Ren6 reminded the AC that dialysis cannot happen at the Puna Medical Facility <br />unless there is a sewage treatment facility. The current proposed wastewater feasibility <br />study does not include the property where the Puna Medical Facility will be located, it <br />will miss it by one lot. <br />APPROVAL OF MINUTES: <br />Elmer moved to approve the minutes of the February 8, 2017, meeting as submitted. Second by <br />Patti. The motion to approve the minutes as submitted passed with 6 votes aye and 0 votes nay. <br />BUSINESS: TRImbbl- NY <br />1. Implementation strategy for prioritized actions <br />Five people testified on agenda item #1: <br />Jon Olson, representing himself, testified that it was the community who was <br />ultimately responsible for getting the Pahoa Regional Town Center process going. <br />Main Street Pahoa did a community survey that identified what people wanted to <br />see happen. It is necessary to find a way to engage each of the communities out <br />there, the same way that was done in Pahoa. It cannot be left solely to the <br />community associations. The population is growing at an unprecedented rate and <br />a solution needs to be found quickly. <br />2. Mary Couch, representing herself, testified that she would like HPP to have paved <br />roads and mailboxes. She noted that people are quick to complain about what's <br />wrong but are unwilling to actually rally the troops to get things done. She <br />requested a list of contacts relating to available grants, so she would be able to <br />rally the troops and move forward. <br />3. Alexa von Alemann, representing herself, testified that not much was done in HPP <br />over the last 23 years. They continue to struggle getting their roads paved due to <br />lack of funding. Postal service is also difficult. She would not like to see federal <br />funds spent on a busy highway dissecting the subdivision, and prefers to see an <br />alternate route to get to lower Puna through Shipman & Hawaiian Homesteads <br />between 5th and 15th Road in HPP and going toward Nanawale. Also suggested <br />are Park & Ride Lots because the current bus stop locations are inconvenient to <br />get to by foot and convenience would get more people on the bus and off the <br />road. by 2025, <br />mwm,. cohplannin,-dept. com puna(a-hawahcounty.Qov <br />Page 2 <br />