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Home My WebLink AboutAGE PWPRC 05/01/2012 2010-2012 ACTIONSFred Blas Chair Brenda Ford i ice - Chair DATE: May 1, 2012 (Tuesday) PLACE: Council Chambers West Hawai`i Civic Center 74-5044 Ane Keohokalole Highway, Building A Kailua -Kona, Hawai`i TIME: 10:45 a.m. (Note: Please turn cell phones, pagers and other mobile communication devices on silent mode.) CALL TO ORDER - 11:10 a.m. STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC ON ITEM(S) ON THE AGENDA REFERRAL(S) Comm. 392.49 COMPLETE STREETS PROGRESS REPORT SUBMITTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS IN ACCORDANCE WITH RESOLUTION 171 -11, DRAFT 2 From Public Works Director Warren H. W. Lee, dated April 11, 2012, stating that the report contains projects that are anticipated to incorporate complete street principles. The report has been prepared with the assistance of the Planning Department and Mass Transit Agency. CLOSE FILE: HAWAII COUNTY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS & PARKS AND RECREATION 28 Session Pete Hoffmann, Member Donald Ikeda, Member Dennis "Fresh" Onishi, Member K. Angel Pilago, Member Brittany Smart, Member Dominic Yagong, Member J Yoshimoto, Member Ayes: Committee Members Ford, Hoffmann, Ikeda, Pilago, Smart, Yagong, and Chair Blas — 7. Noes: None. Absent: Committee Members Onishi and Yoshimoto — 2. Excused: None. Serving the Interests of the People of our Island Hairai '1 County is an Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer PWPRC -28 Page 2 May 1, 2012 Comm. 666: PRESENTATION BY KA`OHANA 0 HONU'APO REGARDING UPCOMING PLANS FOR HONU'APO PARK Comm. 666.1 Comm. 667: (Bill 227) Comm. 673: (Res. 245-12) From Council Member Brittany Smart, dated March 29, 2012, stating that a presentation will be made by the following members of Ka ` Ohana 0 Honu`apo: Ms. Lehua Lopez -Mau (Executive Director), Mr. Ken Sugai (President), Ms. Michelle Galimba (Director), and Ms. Wendy Vance (Vice- President). ;and From Council Member Brittany Smart, dated April 12, 2012, transmitting additional information from Ka 'Ghana 0 Honu'apo. CLOSE FILE: Ayes: Committee Members Ford, Hoffmann, Ikeda, Pilago, Smart, Yagong, and Chair Blas — 7. Noes: None. Absent: Committee Members Onishi and Yoshimoto — 2. Excused: None. AMENDS CHAPTER 24, ARTICLE 10, DIVISION 6, SECTION 24 -287 OF THE HAWAII COUNTY CODE 1983 (2005 EDITION, AS AMENDED), RELATING TO LOADING ZONES Amends Chapter 24, Article 10, Division 6, Section 24 -287, Schedule 35 (Passenger loading zones), subsection (c), by adding a new item and renumbered as required: "( ) Desha Avenue, southeast side, from a point one hundred ninety -seven feet northeast of Pua Avenue and extending seventy five feet in the northeasterly direction (fronting Keaukaha Elementary School)." This amendment addresses a request to establish a passenger loading zone along Desha Avenue to service Keaukaha Elementary School. RECOMMENDS PASSAGE OF BILL 227 ON FIRST READING: Ayes: Committee Members Ford, Hoffmann, Ikeda, Pilago, Smart, Yagong, and Chair Blas - 7. Noes: None. Absent: Committee Members Onishi and Yoshimoto - 2. ACCEPTS THE GRANT OF EASEMENT FROM AKEBONO TOWN CENTER, LLC FOR STREET LIGHT POLE PURPOSES Akebono Town Center, LLC, is desirous of granting an easement located in Pahoa Town (TMK: (3)1 -5- 002:02) to the County of Hawaii, who would like to install a street light on utility pole #2 adjacent to Luquin's Mexican Restaurant to illuminate the raised crosswalk. RECOMMENDS ADOPTION OF RES. 245 -12: Ayes: Committee Members Hoffmann, Ikeda, Pilago, Smart, Yagong, and Chair Blas — 6. Noes: None. Absent: Committee Members Ford, Onishi and Yoshimoto — 3. Excused: None. PWPRC -28 ADJOURNMENT — 11:46 a.m. Page 3 May 1, 2012 The meeting places are accessible for persons with disabilities. Persons who need special accommodations for this meeting should call 961-824 by April 27, 2012. Relay users please call 711-961-8245 to contact our office. Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Hawai`i Revised Statutes (hereinafter ``HRS ") §92 -3.5, the Hawai`i County Council will be conducting this Committee meeting via videoconference. Council Members will be present at the following location(s): • Council Room, Hawaii County Building, 25 Aupuni Street, First Floor, Room 1401 • Kona Council Chambers, West Hawaii Civic Center, 74 -5044 Ane Keohokalole Highway, Building A If audio stream is lost between Hilo and Kona for more than a short period of time, the meeting will be terminated. Public Attendance via Videoconference is also available at the following locations until 4:30 p.m. or later in the event public witness testimony has not been completed: • Pahoa Council Office, Pahoa Marketplace, 15 -2660 Pahoa Village Road, Room 304 • Waimea Council Office, Holomua Center, 64 -1067 Mamalahoa Highway, Suite 5 Copies of this agenda and item(s) listed on the agenda are available on the County Council -Clerk web page at http: / /www.hawaiicountv.gov /lb- council- committee /. For further information, please call 961-8245. Submitting Testimonv: Those submitting written testimony at the meeting should bring fourteen (14) copies for distribution. Public testimony may also be submitted before 12:00 noon on the business day prior to the meeting (1) by mail to the County Clerk's Office in Hilo at 25 Aupuni St., Hilo, Hawai`i. 96720; (2) by facsimile to (808) 961 -8912; or (3) by e -mail to counciltestimonv c;co.hawaii.hi.us. Please submit separate testimony for each item. 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