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APPROVAL OF MINUTES: <br />Committee Member Elmer Solis moved to approve the minutes of the July 11, 2017 meeting os <br />amended. Second by Committee Member Patti Pinto. The motion to approve the minutes os amended <br />passed with 6 votes aye, 0 votes nay. Lines 31, 86, and 93 were amended in the July 11, 2017 minutes <br />to correct spelling errors. <br />BUSINESS: <br />1. Report on the General Plan Comprehensive Review: Planners Bethany Morrison and Kevin Sullivan <br />delivered a presentation reviewing the General Plan for the County of Hawai'i. The presentation <br />provided an overview of the General Plan and its relationship to the various CDP's. Mr. Sullivan <br />introduced and explained the design strategies that will be used to further improve and implement <br />the General Plan as well as how this will affect future CDP updates. Mr. Sullivan described the new <br />planning model and the overall strategies for improving both vision and action within the General <br />Plan and the CDPs, and explained how the planning model will enhance implementation for the <br />General Plan and CDPs through improved and expanded strategies. <br />A member of the public asked if the Planning Department will be creating a vision through the <br />General Plan and if that vision will be implemented through the CDPs. <br />Mr. Sullivan stated that the vision has essentially been created by the public and the Action <br />Committees through the individual CDPs. <br />A member of the public asked how can we (the public) do more to further implementation and not <br />remain in the planning phase. <br />Mr. Sullivan answered that Research and Development will be coming before the Action <br />Committee to expand further, and address in-depth questions regarding implementation. <br />Ms. Ronda Lickfelt commented that she and other members of her community in Fern Forest have <br />been putting in the time and effort to try and establish Kaleponi Street as an emergency access <br />route connecting through Eden Rock. Ms. Lickfelt would like to know what direction members of <br />the public should be moving in order to further implement their efforts. <br />Committee Member, Patti Pinto, stated that she has encountered County Departments that are <br />unfamiliar with the CDPs. Committee Member Pinto questioned the implementation of the <br />General Plan and CDPs if the County Departments do not hold a unified understanding on strategic <br />and long range plans. <br />Mr. Sullivan stated that a goal in this General Plan Update is improving implementation monitoring <br />and evaluation, tying things closer with the Capital Improvements Projects and budgeting, and <br />engaging other County departments to be more thoroughly involved and integrated with one <br />another regarding the General Plan and CDPs. <br />Mr. John Olson asked if it is the intent of the Planning Department to amend the CDPs to comply <br />with the General Plan. Mr. Olson stated that each district is vastly different than the next and that <br />he would like to see more specified needs met for each individual CDP. <br />Mr. Sullivan explained that the CDPs are used as a tool to implement the General Plan, but the <br />intention is not to mold one to the other, the idea is to integrate them and make them work <br />together more efficiently. Mr. Sullivan explained that the intention of the CDPs is to focus on <br />www.hiplanningdept.com puna(Whawahcounty.Qov Page 3 <br />