HomeMy WebLinkAboutREP PC 019 04/20/1999 1998-2000 REPORT OF THE
COMMITTEE ON PLANNING
DATE: April 2Q 1999 Re: C-192 /Resolution No. 61-99
PLACE: Councilroom
TIME: 2:41 p.m.
Chair and Members
Hawaii County Council
Hilo, Hawaii 96720
Your Committee on Planning, to which was referred Resolution No. 61-99, transmitted by Mayor
Stephen K. Yamashiro per Communication No. 192, dated March 2, 1999, regarding the naming of a
street in the County of Hawaii, reports as follows:
Resolution No. 61-99 authorizes the naming of a street located in the Kaupakuea Homesteads,
Kaupakuea, South Hilo, Hawaii.
Pursuant to Section 22-35, Article 2, Chapter 22, Hawaii County Code, the Council of the County of
Hawaii is authorized to adopt a street name of an unnamed roadway in the County of Hawaii.
The Planning Commission at its regular meeting of February 19, 1999, recommended that the unnamed
homestead road within the Kaupakuea Homesteads, be named "Kaupakuea Homestead Road."
The name "Kaupakuea Homestead Road" was submitted by the residents of the Homestead Association
who reseazched the name and found old documents, as such, with no diacritical marks, Your Committee,
however, after checking with sources at the University of Hawaii -Hilo learned there should be an okina
between the "u" and the "ea" so it reads "Kaupaku' ea", meaning kaupaku (ridgepole) and ' ea (hawksbill
turtle or its shell). A resident of the Homesteads Association, stated that the old records indicate the
name does not contain an okina. Several Committee members felt the name should be left as is, and no
diacritical marks should be inserted because of the old records. However, pursuant to Resolution
No. 960-84, the Hawaiian language faculty in the Hawaiian Studies Discipline of the University of
Hawaii, Hilo College shall be consulted if a name, spelling and/or meaning be in question. Therefore,
Your Committee recommended that an okina be inserted into the name as discussed, and that Resolution
No. 61-99 be amended with Draft 2.
Your Committee on Planning concurs with the intent and purpose of Resolution No. 61-99, as amended
to Resolution No. 61-99, Draft 2, and recommends its adoption.
AYES NOES A & E EX
LEITHEAD-TODD X
TYLER X Respectfully submitted,
CHUNG X
ELARIONOFF x COMMITTEE ON C~NNIN
JACOBSON X /~J
PISICCHIO X ~
SMITH x g EAN LEIT EAD-TODD, CHAIR
YAGONG X
ARAKAKI E.O.M. X PC REPORT NO. 19
ADOPTED: MAY 0 5 1999