MIN CHARTER 2018-10-12 (2018-2020)

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Hawaii County Charter Commission -4 October 12, 2018 manned a 24/7 watch in the field at assigned roadblocks. Basically, they are ready when called upon when an evacuation has to be done, whether 12:00 o'clock in the morning or 12:00 o'clock at noon, they're ready there to do the tasks. They also provide to other agencies, whether it be local, County, State or Federal in this effort. Also, they assisted with operations at the disaster recovery center. Lastly but not least is our Traffic Division, who is charged with roadway striping and safety markings, and also all the installation, operation, and maintenance of street lights, traffic signals, island -wide. We also do traffic safety education, and also (inaudible) installation, and other things that they do. The next three items that I want to share with you is basically some of the work that we do. Ali`i Drive culvert replacement, which is in Kona. So we are on track to be able to bid this project. It's a long overdue project to replace a functionally obsolete Ali`i Drive culvert with a new bridge. This has been a work in the making for many years and I'm glad to say that by the end of this year we hope to be able to bid that out and hopefully we start construction some time before summer next year and finish that sometime midyear of 2021. The next project is the Mamalahoa Highway widening project that is going on now from Mud Lane to Mana Road. This project includes widening of Mamalahoa at 18 major intersections with left turn pockets and drainage improvements. This started back in March and hope to finish in mid -2020. And lastly, the West Hawai`i Civic Center Office of the Prosecuting Attorney. We are hoping to be able to finish that project in mid -2019, next year. A lot of this project is funded 89 percent by Federal Highways, with 20 percent matching from the County. As far as the County Charter for organization, Director Powers, Duties and Functions, we don't have any proposal or recommendation to change. Again, thank you on behalf of myself, Deputy Director Merrick Nishimoto, and our 400 -something employees. Thank you. CHR. ADAMS: Thank you very much, Director. Do we have any questions from the Commission? Just briefly, within the—it's very short given the amount of work that you do and your size, it's a very short chapter that establishes. Everything else is primarily in ordinance. You're good with that? You don't see anything that's in ordinance that you would rather have in the Charter? MR. SIMEON: Not at this point. CHR. ADAMS: The other question has to do with the qualifications. It states that the director should be a registered professional engineer. I just would ask the Page 18