2018-04-25 Meeting Minutes (EMC)

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the AOC. As far as she’s concerned, the AOC is what the County is operating from, and they are condemning properties as we speak. She doesn’t see Resolution 412 (on the Director’s Informational Report), but it is to condemn property in Pāhala. She has been asking about the Nāālehu condemnation but ʻis guessing it has not been resolved yet. The County is off its timeline already. Jerome Warren: Mr. Warren said he would be speaking on item 7 on the agenda and item 4 in the Director’s Report, three minutes each. Earlier this month he was contacted by a consultant in regard to the Nāālehu sewer project. She called his home and said her company, ʻ Earthplan, was contracted by Brown and Caldwell to meet with the residents of Nāālehu in ʻ regard to the sewer project. He asked her to find the original 2004 promise between Mayor Kim and the Nāālehu homeowners, and tʻhen he asked her if the sewer plant next to the school would still go forward if residents opposed it. The meetings with the residents turned out to be listening sessions. The Earthplan woman did not bring copies of the 2004 promises from the mayor. The community opposes the new plan, which would put the sewer plant next to the elementary school. Earthplan’s three listening meetings attracted about 30 residents each night. The community’s councilmember did not attend, their commissioner did not attend, and their CDP members did not attend—and this is after they’ve already taken up $500,000 to make a development plant. Nobody from the Wastewater Division attended. At the end of each meeting, the Earthplan woman from Austin, Texas, made each resident stand up, state their name, and explain why they liked living in Nāālehu. She turned it into a 1970s eʻncounter session. Mr. Warren next spoke regarding item 4 on the Director’s Report. He was contacted yesterday at his home by a man who administers the Clean Water State Revolving Fund. He found out the Nāālehu project is on the State’s priority listʻ, but the County has not filled out an application. The State knows the County wants money for sewer lines and the pump station, but the loan form has not been filled out and signed. He said the 2004 plan with the promise was finalized in 2007. The 2007 final assessment would cost less than the new plan, which the community opposed at this month’s meetings in Nāālehu. The money has to be paid back. The ʻ County has been malfeasant for not telling the homeowners that the 2004 promise was broken and a much larger project planned for Nāʻ submitted with their AOC. It is apples and oranges. Again, the residents were not aware of the new large plan until it was discovered to be next to an archeological site on the Weatherford property. It’s an insider trading scandal. The County should have told them when they abandoned the 2004 promise. Tina Tuttle: Ms. Tuttle said she does not live in Nāālehu, but her grandsons do. Her ʻ grandson goes to Nāālehu Elementary School, and she has a picture, which has been passed out, ʻ of him pointing to where the proposed plant is. If you look at the arrow, it also goes to the gym. The plant is going to be a problem for the school. She is concerned about her grandchildren being placed in a school by a plant, and having to grow up there. She just wanted to make the commissioners aware of this. 4. UNFINISHED BUSINESS a. Continued discussion on current wastewater chemistry at the Kealakehe Wastewater Treatment Plant. 3