HomeMy WebLinkAboutAGE EMC 09/20/2005 2004-2006 Bab Jacobson James Y. Arakaki, Memher
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Fred C. Holschuh, M.U., ti>cmher
K. Angel Pilago Donald Ikeda, Memher
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Gary Safarik, Memher
HAWAII COUNTY COUNCIL ~
COMMITTEE. ON
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMF,NT
9rn Session
DATE: September 20, 200.5 (Tuesday)
PLACE: Sheraton Keauhou i3ay Resort and Spa -
78-128 Ehukai Street
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
TIME: 2:00 p.m.
(Note: Please turn cell phones, pagers and other mobile communication devices on silent mode.)
CALL TO ORDF,R
STATF,MF,NTS N'ROM THE. PUBLIC ON ITEMS ON THE AGENDA
REFF,RRALS
Camm. 434: FURTHER DISCUSSION ON TOPICS NEEDED TO PREPARE A REQUES"f
I~OR PROPOSAL (RF'P) FOR SOLID WASTE TECHNOLOGY FOR TI II?
COUNTY OF HAWA[`[
From Environmental Management Committee Chair Bob Jacobson, dated
September 7, 2005, requesting discussion on the above subject. States that issues
which have been and continue to be discussed are the process of implementation, rate
of diversion possible and necessary, choice of Waste Reduction Technology (WR'f).
coupling of components at WRT facility, financing and timeline. States further that
environmental impacts, costs and benefits of diversion versus disposal. and hierarchy
of waste management as a policy tool have been absent from discussion. Suggests
that the County look at the order of priority for Solid Waste Management used by the
State, which is mirrored from the internationally accepted "Waste Hierarchy" be
examined.
ADJOURNMENT
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to attend this meeting should call 9t,]-$245 by September t6, 2005. Persons using TDDs may call
961-8521.
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Note: Videoconferencing is not available for this meeting.
Those persons wishing to testify in person must register with the County Clerk's staff Those testifying in
person and submitting written testimony at the meeting shou3d bring sixteen copies of the testimony for
distribution at the meeting. 'those persons unable to testify in person may submit testimony 1) by mail to
the County Clerk's Office in Hilo at the above address; 2) by facsimile to (808) 961-8412: or 3) by e-mail
to rnrm~~i1li~sirnu~m_!,~~~ n.hm-i uii.hi. ti,~~. Copies will he made and distributed at the meeting when
transmitted in a timely manner. In any case, both oral and written testimony will he made a part of the
public record.
Copies of this agenda and items listed on the agenda are posted and filed at the County Clerk's Oi'fice,
25 Aupuni 51., Hilo; the Office of the Mayor, 75-5706 Kuakini Highway, Suite 103, Kailua-Kona; and the
Kona Councihnembers' Office, Kailua Trade Center, ?5-5706 Hanama Place, Suite 109, Kailua-Kona. For
further information, please call 961-8245.
VIEWING OF' Mh:ETINGS ON GOVERNMENT ACCESS TELEVISION -Channel 52 (Hilo/Kona)
Public Safety and Parks and Recreation and Finance Committee meetings -Tuesdays, September 27 and
October 4, ?005, at 8:30 p.m.; Planning and Environmental Management Committee meetings -
I~hursdays, September 29 and October 6, 2005 at 8:30 p.m.; and all four Committee meetings -Sunday,
October 9, 2005, at 1030 a.m.
Published: l lawai'i Tribune Herald and West Hawaii Today September 15, 2005.