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Home My WebLink AboutCOM 0029.007 2020-2022 tl HEATHER L. ALL Contact Information Council Member (808)961-8828 Chair, Committee on Governmental Operations, ,®tea (808)961-8018(staff) Relations and Economic Development heather.kimball@hawaiicounty.gov Council District I cl) HA API COUNTY COUNCIL County ofHawai'i Hawai'i County Building ZZ4 25 Au uni Street, Suite 1402 Hilo, Hawaii 96720 C7) DATE: December 9, 2021 -X TO: Maile David, Council Chair and Members of the Hawai'i County Council FROM: Heather Kimball, Council Member SUBJECT: Minutes of the Hawai'i State Association of Counties Executive Committee Meeting held on November 23, 2021 Please find attached minutes of the Hawai'i State Association of Counties Executive Committee Meeting held on November 23, 2021. Please place this matter on the agenda for the next available Governmental Operations, Relations and Economic Development Committee. Mahalo HK:bt Comrn. No.- Ref. To: qg QP Ref. Date— DEC Hawai'i County is an Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer Hawal i State Association of Counties (HSAC) Counties of Kauai, Maui, Hawaii, and City Y Count of Honolulu OM MIN TES IISAC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2021 10:00 A.M., or soon thereafter Via Videoconference 7"ctia lli l.aa a.li. I � kion i : 883 81.07 o��3��:�... Passc.°ode; 952670 City and County of Honolulu 530 South Ding Street, Room 202, Honolulu, Ha ai'i 96813 County of awai`i 25 Auuni Street, Suite 2409, Hilo, awai`i 96720 County of aua`i 4396 Rice Street, Lihu`e, aua`i, awai`i 96766 County of Maui 200 S. High Street,Wailuku, Maui, awai`i 96793 I. CALL. TO ORDER II. APPROVAL OF AGENDA Agenda approved. III. MINUTES a. October 26, 2021, Executive Committee Meeting Minutes approved. REPORTS a. Treasurer's Deport The balance in the primary HSAC account: x"161,513.95. The balance in the HSAAC conference account: $52,548.46. November 23., 2021, JiiSAC Meet.r.ng.A. enda Page 1 2 EA,0 5 ccnue��` Total deposit account balances: $214,062.41. Treasurer°s report approved. CM Chock: Discussion on membership dues from each county and working to resolve discrepancy. Did receive an email from ZVACo for annual revenue dues. b. County Reports: County of Hawaii CM Kimball: ISI County did have their first reading in committee with the resolution on HSAC, will hear it first week in December, on the 8th in full council and then it will be complete. Also passed first reading in council with the TAT bill. Did have some discussion whether it is possible to exempt HI residents from the TAT. Corp counsel advised probably not through the .FIDS, may need to modify at the state level. Logistically challenging to do it for one county and not another. CM Waters: Came up on Oahu too but not sure how to do it logistically. County of Kauai Kauai - finalizing the glamping bill, addressing open and ag camping. Want to reserve that activity for the community but also realize expanding short term vacation rentals onto viable agriculture land. Also passed some zoning requirements. Clean up needed around the zoning code. Chid King:Are you for or against glamping? CM Chock: Introduced the bill to restrict the activity. More concerned about the large-scale commercial activity. County of Maui CM King: First historic bill, aina kupuna bill passed first, second and final reading. allows long term maui residents to maintain continued use of their lands. An exemption for folks who have had generational ownership of their lands for a long time, this is a tax exemption. Tax dedication would last ofr 10 years. Way of helping our families hang onto their land despite the rise in taxes. Sunscreen chemical ban: Eliminated from sale, use and distribution of all non-mineral sunscreens. Only two allowed are titanium oxide and zinc oxide ^C�"GJ'��`:Irnber 3, 021, HSAC Meeting Agenda Page I 3 yaaY�as$��e� A ISO � y minerals. Had three meetings where we heard from experts. May be one of the most aggressive bans on sunscreen. Massed second and final reading for all homes 5000 sq ft or larger to be built to net zero standards. Modelled after a bill passed in Colorado who lowered that threshold to 3000. Different categories for buildings. Passed first reading on a new moratorium that would apply to the whole island - for two years on any new hotels or rentals in the entire county. Passed the HSAC package on Friday. COP26 overview - appears there are incomplete commitments by the countries. More focus on local city and county and state governments. Everything moving ahead is being done at the local level. On a panel called America is all in - Was there for 2 weeks, on 12/14 panels over the two weeks. When the money comes in from the American Rescue plan - it needs to find its way to the city and counties. Need a way to apply for the money directly. Same day we passed the sunscreen ban - the state government unveiled the dispenser on the .Big island which will dispense mineral sunscreen to the general public. Exciting. Hope it spreads across the state. City and County of Honolulu CM Waters: Passed out of committee going into third reading. Bill 40 - establishes a TAT tax. In order to get Esther Kia'aina on board - dedicate a portion of it to mitigate the impacts of visitors on public and natural resources for the maintenance of beaches and parks. The Enviro committee came out in support of this tax. Similar to HSAC leg package, Climate mitigation impact fee. Looking at short term rentals again - 10 million visitors and only the ability to house 7 million in hotels. Continuing next month as the pro short term rental community comes out in force. Since Maui and Kauai was the first to pass the CTAT- are you collecting the money? CM Chock: We are. Sense of urgency to get it going. over bee 23, 202. , . AC Meeting.Age-. .d Page 1 4 ti<aeEas��p� CM King: Worked with finance department and started collecting in November. CM Paltin - Week leading up to Nov 1st, had to go back to dep of taxation especially for the short term rentals. State taxes can enter in spreadsheets, now in the taxation website there are a bunch of FAQs for smaller entities to address how we do things. If you have questions can take a look at our website. CM Waters: a specific fund needs to be created by a charter amendment so they created a special account and needs to go by the entire council for how to spend the money. CM King: created revolving funds in department activities and then any sma violations had to be addresses. CM King:All bills go through two readings. CM Waters:All go through three readings. CMKimball: All go through two in council and one in committee. Also watching the STVR stop - using language in that bill and watching what happens. CM Waters: Previous director said if you are in the resort area you are good. New bill requires a permit number and you must put that on your advertisement. Charge a fee. liaise the taxes so they would be the same as the resort area which is three times the residential rate. Created another special account where the money will go back to .DPP to hire people to do enforcement. Changes the definition of short to rental from 30 days to 180 days. CMKimball: Trying to resolve a built in exemption -for those who do not regularly do a short term rental but only do it once or twice a year and do not advertise on airbnb. CM Waters: DPP drafts have included - Many exemptions possible for students, travelling healthcare workers. Will send it to CMKimball. CM Paltin - When it went through the planning commission decided to use TMK numbers which would be easier so you can look it up on the real property tax website. The short term rental tax is higher than the hotel tax. If using the TMK can see if they are legal and paying their taxes. CM Kimball - do any of the counties have an agreement with the short term rental vendors?MOU to share data. CM Chock: We do. CM King - our county is working on it. To add to what Tamara said, the planning department said they would not have issue tracking the TKs CMKimball: working on cesspool bill as well looking at ways to administer it. November ber 23, 2021, HS C tg d, Ilage I 5 0 ,ea'��as�� y CM Paltin: Working on the cesspool bill as well. CM Mason -passed the cesspool bill with ?priorities, CWRS funding available to all counties, have until feb to get the program up and running and to end of the fiscal year to get all applicants in. Hope can continue to do this and expand the fund. Talk about looking for additional funds at the state level. CM Ding: At a workshop with Senator Chris Lee recently. To allow counties to assess a fee as cesspools are one of the problems, could mean a lot of funding to come in. Motion to receive the county reports -passed. c. NACo Deport d. WIR Report CM Richards: WIR in Salt Lake City, started out with a tour. Getting together with the group is easier than zoom. Started with a tour of the homestead hyro electrical plant, they talked about the whole water issue for Utah and water of Colorado. The challenge in managing the downstream water needs. Thinking of HI. They are facing some of the same challenges. We lost the Kohala ditch, working on the funding to get it back. President Mark Whitney commissioner from Utah- presentations were excellent, funding for WIR was very good. Western Gov association - talk about security, IT and broadband availability and the problem with the rural counties. Big deal was the forest service and the public lands. Changes ongoing where shutting down some of the logging and mining - impacting communities substnaitally as wiping out economies. Direct funding coming out of DC- big deal to get the funding direct to the counties. NACo report: Had a 3 day meeting, NACo budget is in good shape. Do not have to worry about funding going forward. Talked about the lands of the western US, forest and public lands. Talked about the policies coming forward and how they might affect the western regions. Policies coming forward and how they might affect the regions. CM Kupukai: Email on Nov 12, includes vaccine mandates and build back better, will forward to everyone. On Nov 18 - NACo has a new resource analysis on the build back better, including x'150 BIM for affordable housing. Nov 22- NACo sent an email on a new report detailing county levers to drive economic mobility and economic mobility network. Next workforce development meeting is on Dec 8. Next board meeting is Atlanta on Dec 1- 4 will attend virtually. Nov"ernber 23, 2021, 11SAC . eeEo.g Agenda Page 6 6 H CU4AP3'��' The registration for the leg conference is Feb 12-16, a really important conference we work on once a year. Work on policy resolutions that work their way up to the boards. Can attend their webinars or workshops. Last one was on housing, economic development. Also had one on how counties can improve via adult literacy, CM Waters: Will be on virtually in Dec and then will be there in person in Feb. CM Richards: The group really appreciated how III shows up to the table. C1VI Kimball - has not been to the feb legislative conference before and would like advice on that. CIVI Chock: As executive committee member travel will be reimbursed. Will also be attending. Typically they do an HSAC get together and will continue to plan on that as well as Capitol hill. Initiated conversation with Nahe about when those would happen. NACo and WIR report approved and motion passed. e. Executive Assistant Report Updates on HSAC website to include ',,mtjji,, to HSAC legislative package and link to meeting recordings. Executive Assistant, Nahelani Parsons. o Met with the Secretary and reviewed roles and duties. o Role of EA will be taking over many of the duties of the secretary including website management, agenda drafting/posting, taking minutes and posting, etc. o The Secretary will continue to provide support via updates to by laws. o Plan to create a policy for google drive and website use in .February. o Right now the main focus is on the HSAC legislative package, appreciate everyone's updates letting me know once it has passed through a committee or when it is scheduled to pass through full council. Timeline for HSAC leg packet approval Kauai December 1, 2021 Hawaii November 18, 2021 - Resolution No. 263-21, Draft 1 ovornber 23, 2021, HSAC Meeting Agenda Ip'age 1 7 �yinvEA_0-CUU . passed out of GORED committee, will be heard by full council on December 8. Maui .Full council will review on agenda 11119121, CC 21:528 Resolution to approve the HSAC package for approval. Honolulu December 1, 2021 - Full council, o Working with the Treasurers team to reconcile the QB and bring it up to date in order to proceed with filing the Form 990 taxes. o Also working on getting debit cards for members (except for Secretary who has declined one) - that way they can be used for upcoming conferences and to update the online software - such as g-suite, zoom, and squarespace. • Update on website o Add to agenda - link on website to post legislative bills - will be the direct link from the state of hawaii capitol website, so it will update and be live every time anyone clicks on it to access. • Update on legislative priorities o President Chock and myself met with Jon to discuss the approach of how HSAC would take action on HSAC bills and priorities. o Legislative Priorities (Existing bills HSAC is in support of) o Includes topics put forward by individual councils, discussed and approved by the HSAC EC. o Bills introduced at the State legislature are screened by the HSAC lobbyist and those pertaining to the priorities are put into a tracking sheet and shared with the HSAC members. o The HSAC legislative priorities are then monitored throughout session and when recommended by the HSAC lobbyist, testimony is submitted through the process shown below. o Priorities may only be added during the legislative session. o Priorities added during session must be related to home rule or increased revenues for the counties. o During the second half of the Legislature's biennium that the prior year's HSAC Legislative Package will continue to be a priority and testimony will be submitted when hearings are scheduled. • Update on legislative packet o For HSAC bills - the tracking sheet will be posted on the website and emailed out to members. Nover.r.ber 22, 2021., HSAC Meeting Agen a Page 1 8 ��Cb U1d"4& o When testimony is required, Jon will notify the EC and provide a template draft of testimony for EC approval. Once the EC has approved, cion may submit the testimony on behalf of HSAC via an HSAC account on the Capitol website, that way whoever is going to testify can log in via the HSAC account and get access to the online zoom link and testify on behalf of HSAC when appropriate. Jon will advise on who to testify depending on the measure. • Mention the Lifeguard bill is now being introduced by EC and not by Maui council. • Meads up we will be discussing the NACo conference at the next December meeting. CM Kimball, Should we plan something for opening day with legislators? Lobbyist Jon Okudara: Capitol is closed and not open to the public at this time. CMKimball;Also working on other bills for introduction on the wastewater bill - 3 bill package amending certain parts of the SIRS, working with unions, ready mid december. Also working with Tommy on sunshine law and hopefully will be ready shortly. CM King: In the past the legislative event allowed review of the TAC package, might be some way to do a virtual meeting. V NEW US NESS a. Discussion on the HSAC Legislative Priorities. Discussed above in the Executive Assistant report. b. Approval of the HSAC Executive Committee slate of officers for the term beginning January 1, 2022. •President Mason Chock •Vice President Felly King •Secretary Heather Kimball is Treasurer Tommy Waters Approved. Term beginning Jan 1st and not to exceed Jan 31 2023. VI® OLD BUSINESS November 13, 2021, -1SAC M.eeting Agenda Page ! 9 A Ic y VII® ANNOUNCEMENTS a, Scheduling of the next Executive Committee meeting Thursday Dec 9th, 10 am. VIII. ADJOURNMENT