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heads, and then the submittals of department budget requests to the Planning Director, the Managing Director and ultimately further on to the Mayor for review, st vetting and revision and delivery to the County Council on or before March 1. Staff Childs explained that there i in the annual process, developed by departments and processed in the same manner, with this second version of the annual CIP budget submitted by the Mayor to the Council on or th before May 5 of each year. These inter-agency steps were depicted on the distributed flowchart in a different color from that assigned to those pertaining to AC recommendations. He also noted the sequencing of public hearings following the second submittal and capital budgets. Staff Childs then encouraged the AC, via AC-authorized representative members, to consider providing testimony regarding the capital budget directly to the Council, whether at a public hearing or otherwise, or to the Mayor, suggesting that Director Yee interjected that although he did not have the experience yet to provide the level of pro-active engagement in CIP project advocacy and prioritization that he would like to provide, he intended to be operating fully prepared to do so himself, not merely s that next year we will see more CIP projects that come from Action Committees moving forward, or at least talked about more \[among the Directors and with the Mayor\] and that he expects to be totally knowledgeable about all the projects that the various ACs want to have undertaken. Member Tyler asked staff if there might be a benefit for AC members to participate in the operating and capital budget submittals. Staff Childs said he was not qualified to address that question, but suggested the AC communicate specific objectives or questions to the Planning Director for his possible pursuit of those interests during those departmental reviews by the Council. -------------------------- Following discussion of Agenda item no. 6, Chair DeFranco noted it was now 4:30p p.m. asked members if they wished to defer the remaining agenda item to the next meeting. Members Young and Tyler moved/seconded: (1) to defer all remaining business (Agenda item no. 7 and both Unfinished Business items to the next meeting of the Action Committee, (2) to add to the next meeting agenda the further review of the CIP budget with a consolidated listing of all CIP projects currently listed and proposed for North and South Kona, which listing is to be prepared by Planning Dept. staff, including possible further recommendations and (3) that the next meeting of the Kona CDP Action Committee be scheduled for Wednesday April 19, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. In discussion on the motion, Member Ogin asked whether the Department was able to support returning to monthly scheduled meetings. Staff Childs replied that while the Director was not ready to make a decision on returning all ACs to a monthly meeting schedule at this point, he was certain that the Director would support this additional Kona CDP AC meeting on April 19. Director Yee interjected that he did support this extra meeting, due to the important unfinished work standing before the AC. Upon call of the Chair, the motion passed unanimously. ANNOUNCEMENTS Staff announced that Commissioner Kekaulike Tomich of Public Access, Open (PONC) has advised that he Page 8 of 9