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CALL TO
ORDER:
ROLL CALL:
HAWAII COUNTY COUNCIL
19th Session
Hawaii County Building
25 Aupuni Street
Hilo, Hawai `i
August 5, 2015
Reverend Tag Taggart of the Center for Spiritual Living gave the morning's
invocation.
The regular meeting of the Hawaii County Council was called to order by
Acting Chair Poindexter at 9:10 a.m., in the Council Chambers, Hilo.
Present: Mr. Dru Mamo Kanuha, Chair (via videoconference from Kona)
Ms. Valerie T. Poindexter, Vice Chair
Mr. Aaron S. Y. Chung, Member (came in later)
Ms. Maile "Medeiros" David, Member
Ms. Karen Eoff, Member
Mr. Greggor Eagan, Member
Mr. Dennis "Fresh" Onishi, Member
Mr. Danny Paleka, Member
Absent & Excused: Ms. Margaret Wille, Member.
PLEDGE OF The Chair directed the Council to the next order of business, Pledge of
ALLEGIANCE: Allegiance.
(At this time, Ms. David led the Council in the Pledge of
Allegiance.)
PETITIONS,
The Chair directed the Council to proceed to the next order of business,
MEMORIALS
Petitions, Memorials, Certificates of Merit, and Expressions of
CERTIFICATES
Condolence.
OF MERITS, AND
EXPRESSIONS
(Note: At this time, Acting Chair Poindexter presented Certificate of
OF CONDOLENCE:
Merits to Lopaka O'Conner, in recognition of achieving the Pacific
and Asian Affairs Council's 2015 Academic & Travel Scholarship.)
Recess: At 9:16 a.m., the Chair called for a recess.
Reconvene: Meeting reconvened at 9:18 a.m.
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STATEMENTS
FROM THE
PUBLIC ON
AGENDA ITEMS
August 5, 2015
The Acting Chair directed the Council to proceed to the next order of business,
Statements from the Public on Agenda Items.
The following individuals registered to speak and came forward when called
by the Chair:
Dominic Yagong:
(representing Pines at
Kailua-Kona 1)
Douglas Payne:
Shane Anderson:
Res. 239-15 (Comm. 401), comment.
Res. 239-15 (Comm. 401), comment.
Res. 239-15 (Comm. 401), comment.
Nancy Kramer: Res. 229-15 (Comm. 387), in support.
(representing the Big Island Lions
Foundation)
Rob Perkins:
Genevieve Anderson:
David Cunningham:
(representing GVS Accelerator)
Bruce Prigoff:
(representing Kuakini Highway
25-6099 Corporation)
Deborah Chun:
(representing Kuakini Highway
25-6099 Corporation)
Jamal Wasan
(representing Kuakini Highway
25-6099 Corporation)
Res. 239-15 (Comm. 401), in opposition.
Res. 239-15 (Comm. 401), in support.
Res. 232-15 (Comm. 390), in support.
Res. 239-15 (Comm. 401), in opposition.
Res. 239-15 (Comm. 401), in opposition.
Res. 238-15 (Comm. 399); and
Res. 222-15 (Comm. 380), in support.
APPROVAL The Acting Chair directed the Council to proceed to the next order of business,
OF MINUTES: Approval of Minutes.
(There were none.)
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COMMUNI- The Acting Chair directed the Council to proceed to the next order of business,
CATIONS: Communications.
(There were none.)
ORDER OF The Chair directed the Council to proceed to the next order of business, Order of
RESOLUTIONS: Resolutions.
Res. 215-15: AUTHORIZES THE PAYMENT OF FUNDS OF A LATER FISCAL YEAR
AND OF MORE THAN ONE FISCAL YEAR FOR A MULTI-YEAR
AGREEMENT WITH OCEANIC TIME WARNER CABLE
Authorizes the Mayor to enter into a five-year agreement at a cost of $1,500 per
month to increase the County's internet bandwidth speed from 20 megabytes to
100 megabytes. This upgrade would increase the County's cost by $180 per
month.
Reference: Comm. 365
Intr. by: Ms. Eoff
Approve: FC -29
Motion to Approve: Ms. Eoff moved to adopt Res. 215-15. Seconded by
Mr. Paleka.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Eoff.
MS. EOFF: Just, I urge us to continue to support this. Should improve our
working capabilities.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Any other discussion? Okay, seeing or hearing
none—can I do all those in favor, yeah? Yeah, we can do the—don't have to do
an individual. Even if Council Chair is in Kona?
MR. MAEDA: I think as long as we confirm that he voted "aye" that's fine.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay, so all those in favor say "aye."
Vote on Res. 215-15: The motion to adopt Res. 215-15 was carried by the
(Adopted) following voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff,
Eagan, Kanuha, Onishi, Paleka, and
Acting Chair Poindexter – 8.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Member Wille – 1.
Excused: None.
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ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Eagan requested that I take a
couple items out of order.
MR. IL,AGAN: Resolution 238-15 and Resolution 228-15.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay. So, Mr. Clerk, can you please read into
the record 238-15?
Change Order As directed by the Chair and with no objections from the Council Members,
of Business: the following items were taken out of order:
Res. 238-15: TRANSFERS/APPROPRIATES AN APPROPRIATION OUT AND FROM
THE DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT AND CREDITS SAME TO A
DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT TO PROVIDE A GRANT TO
LOKAHI TREATMENT CENTERS FOR THE RENTAL OF OFFICE SPACE
IN THE PAHOA VILLAGE CENTER
Transfers/appropriates $6,706.26 out and from the Clerk -Council Services —
Contingency Relief account (Council District 4); and credits the same to the
Office of Housing and Community Development, Transfer to Housing Fund,
Miscellaneous Charges account (L6kahi Treatment Centers).
Reference: Comm. 399
Intr. by: Mr. Eagan
Motion to Approve: Mr. Eagan moved to adopt Res. 238-15. Seconded by
Mr. Paleka.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Eagan.
MR. IL,AGAN: Thank you, Madam Chair. I just wanted to first straighten out
my paperwork here. It's all messed up. I just want to say thank you to the doctor
for explaining this resolution and the testimony. I can bring him up and explain
more, but I believe he covered the details.
This is actually Council Member Paleka's district. Of course, as the Council
Members know, we split Pahoa in half and we pretty much split Puna in half, and
as Council Member Paleka and I have been saying, "Two districts, one Puna."
We want to just provide these services, and I hope that the Council supports this
contingency funds. Thank you.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Is there any other discussion?
Council Member Paleka.
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MR. PALEKA: Perhaps I can justI firmly support this resolution, so I'm
asking for your support.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Any other discussion? Seeing or
hearing none, all those in favor say "aye."
Vote on Res. 238-15: The motion to adopt Res. 238-15 was carried by the
(Adopted) following voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff,
Eagan, Kanuha, Onishi, Paleka, and
Acting Chair Poindexter — 8.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Member Wille — 1.
Excused: None.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Now we move to, Mr. Clerk, Resolution 228-15,
please.
Res. 228-15: TRANSFERS/APPROPRIATES AN APPROPRIATION OUT AND FROM
THE DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT AND CREDITS SAME TO A
DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT TO PROVIDE A GRANT TO KALANI
HONUA TO PROMOTE FOOD SUSTAINABILITY IN PUNA AND
SERVICE THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE
Transfers/appropriates $10,000 out and from the Clerk -Council Services —
Contingency Relief account (Council District 4); and credits the same to the
Department of Research and Development, Hawaii County Resource Center,
Miscellaneous Contract Services account (Kalani Honua — Food Sustainability).
Reference: Comm. 386
Intr. by: Mr. Ilagan
Motion to Approve: Mr. Eagan moved to adopt Res. 228-15. Seconded by
Mr. Paleka.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Eagan.
MR. IL,AGAN: Thank you, Madam Chair. I have Mr. Bates here, and I just
wanted Mr. Bates to explain a little bit in detail what the $10,000 would be used
for and how it will benefit the lower portion, more towards the ocean side of
Puna, and of course, anyone around the Pahoa area and even in Kea`au area.
(Note: At this time, Mr. Bates came forward to address the members of
the Council.)
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MR. BATES: Aloha kakou. I am pleased to come before you once again to talk
about food sustainability in Puna Makai. Already we have made great strides in
this effort, thanks to the generosity of Council Member Paleka and last year's
generosity of Council Member Ilagan—and the work that we've done with
bringing Puna together to really understand the capacity of our sustainability. As
we have faced Hurricane Iselle last year; lava flow, which threatened our solitude
and our isolation down there, and we really came to understand what was
necessary as a community. And Kalani Honua, being a 40 year agency serving
Puna Makai, has really been a leader, along with our colleagues at Hawaii
Sanctuary and others, to bring together farmers to help understand who's growing
what, what grows where, and how do we get it to local customers.
So, already we've had several different educational series. Last year's modern
ahupua` a series had thousands of participants throughout the year. Already we've
had a request for new beekeeping workshops. We're having one next month.
We're also doing a permaculture design course in November. It's a two-week
intensive. This has all been a part of this effort to help those in lower Puna
understand sustainability.
We've also been very creative on our own campus of creating a nursery, which
helps create starter plants and starter production food. We've also planted over
120 trees in the last year, on our campus alone, which are all production tress, and
these are things we can then propagate and help our community to foster their
own development and production. So our goals here are to help educate, through
our classes, workshops, and retreats, but also to go out into the community and
assist with development through our own staff and volunteers.
MR. IL,AGAN: Thank you, Mr. Bates.
MR. BATES: Thank you.
MR. IL,AGAN: I also want to add in, that last term, working with R&D
(Research and Development), I want to thank the Director, Laverne Omori,
because we sat down with her. Because of the relationship that we had, once she
heard what we were trying to do, she added in $5,000 for marketing, additional
funds to get this out there. So I really appreciate R&D efforts, not only going
through the way administrating the funds but adding additional funds last year.
So, I really want to thank her for that help and support.
MR. BATES: Can I comment on that, because was actually the foundation for
punapermaculture.org. This is a website we started to be somewhat of a farmers'
Facebook in lower Puna. The foundation is set because of that funding, and we
are now working on the content. So that was a wonderful start, and we are more
than grateful for that assisted effort.
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MR. IL,AGAN: Even though you hear "permaculture" a lot, the main issue that
we're trying to address is food sustainability. That's really what we're trying to
solve here, and this is just one step of that issue, so I just want to—of addressing
that issue. So I just want to say thank you for taking that charge and working and
making these workshops available for the public, and educating everyone about
food sustainability.
MR. BATES: We're proud to do so, and grateful for your help. Thank you.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you, very much. Any other discussion?
Okay, seeing or hearing none, on Resolution 228-15, all those in favor say "aye."
Vote on Res. 228-15: The motion to adopt Res. 228-15 was carried by the
(Adopted) following voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff,
Eagan, Kanuha, Onishi, Paleka, and
Acting Chair Poindexter – 8.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Member Wille – 1.
Excused: None.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: So, we go back to page two of the agenda.
Mr. Clerk, will you please read in Resolution 220-15?
Return to Order The Chair directed the Council to return to the order of business.
of Business:
Res. 220-15: TRANSFERS/APPROPRIATES AN APPROPRIATION OUT AND FROM
THE DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT AND CREDITS SAME TO A
DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT TO PROVIDE A GRANT TO
HUI `AUMAKUA SPORTS INC. FOR TRAVEL EXPENSES TO COMPETE
IN THE WEST ZONE WORLD SERIES IN SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA
Transfers/appropriates $1,000 out and from the Clerk -Council Services –
Contingency Relief account (Council District 5); and credits the same to the
Department of Parks and Recreation, Parks and Recreation Administration
Other Current Expenses, Miscellaneous Contract Services account (Hui
`Aumakua Sports Inc.).
Reference: Comm. 374
Intr. by: Mr. Paleka
Motion to Approve: Mr. Paleka moved to adopt Res. 220-15. Seconded by
Ms. David.
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ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Paleka.
August 5, 2015
MR. PALEKA: Thank you, Vice Chair Poindexter. Yeah, this is just some funds
to help defer cost for Hui `Aumakua, which they did take second in this
tournament. But in our efforts to support our sports teamI know we did pretty
good this summer with a lot of teams going up there. But some of them do need
some assistance, and I just seek your support in approving this resolution.
Mahalo.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Any other discussion? Seeing or
hearing none, all those in favor of Resolution 220-15 please say "aye."
Vote on Res. 220-15: The motion to adopt Res. 220-15 was carried by the
(Adopted) following voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff,
Eagan, Kanuha, Onishi, Paleka, and
Acting Chair Poindexter — 8.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Member Wille — 1.
Excused: None.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Mr. Clerk, will you please read in
Resolution 221-15?
Res. 221-15: TRANSFERS/APPROPRIATES AN APPROPRIATION OUT AND FROM
THE DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT AND CREDITS SAME TO A
DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT TO PROVIDE A GRANT TO THE
HILO-HAMAKUA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION FOR
THE KE KIPI KALO — HAWAIIAN PERMACULTURE PROJECT
Transfers/appropriates $5,000 out and from the Clerk -Council Services —
Contingency Relief account (Council District 1); and credits the same to the
Department of Research and Development, Agriculture Research and
Development Other Current Expenses, Miscellaneous Contract Services
account (Ke Kipi Kalo — Hawaiian Permaculture).
Reference: Comm. 375
Intr. by: Ms. Poindexter
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Yeah, at this time I'd like to relinquish the
Chair to Council Member Eoff.
Relinquish Chair: At this time, Acting Chair Poindexter relinquished the Chair to Ms. Eoff.
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ACTING CHR. EOFF: Okay, let the record show that I've assumed the Chair.
Ms. Poindexter.
Motion to Approve: Ms. Poindexter moved to adopt Res. 221-15. Seconded by
Mr. Paleka.
ACTING CHR. EOFF: Go ahead, Ms. Poindexter.
MS. POINDEXTER: I have here Ben Tajon and David Sansone. I just wanted
you to give a brief overview of what we're doing. And like with—Council
Member Eagan said we're moving towards food sustainability, and I see your
head shaking in the back when he's talking about that. So if you could make him
happy, as well.
(Note: At this time, Ben Tajon and David Sansone, representing Ke Kipi
Kalo, came forward to address the members of the Council.)
MR. TAJON: Awesome. Aloha, Council. Just wanted to first appreciate and
show you gratitude for everything, and all the support that you've been showing
us in what we've been trying to do in creating this permaculture project.
Really what we're trying to do is overlap the lenses of permaculture and Hawaiian
culture, because the thing really match and intertwine, and there's not really a lot
of support for, well, not support but it's just not a whole lot of public outreach and
education for that kind of programs. It's really—you know, I'm sure you guys are
all aware about the food situation that we're in with the importing and all that
kind stuff, and how we need to be more sustainable for ourselves and for our
island. Not just for food security, but also like emergent preparedness. Like what
LJ was saying, with what they did with Iselle and what's going on in Puna, the
volcano, and all of that, we really need to be looking way more towards how we
can provide for ourselves. We did it before, we can do it again.
MR. SANSONE: Alright. Yeah, my name is Dave Sansone. Thank you very
much for taking the time to consider this. Yeah, I'd just like to add. This has a
great potential for developing scalable agroforestry systems for Hilo and
Hamakua, and what that means is small models that can be made larger, so that
works well for small family farms. It can also serve as a foundation for our local
food security, if they're locally based, meaning that they're not dependent on all
types of outside inputs.
One of the nice things about this all is that in the process of addressing our food
security through permaculture, which is kind of strange to hear that twice in one
day here at the County Council. But one nice thing about it is, as we're doing that
these practices actually improve, restore the health of the land, the water, and the
people that are taking care of it, so it's a win-win situation.
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MS. POINDEXTER: Thank you very much. So, I'm just asking that the Council
supports me and this resolution. Thank you.
ACTING CHR. EOFF: Thank you. Any other discussion, Council Members?
Seeing none, all in favor please say "aye."
Vote on Res. 221-15: The motion to adopt Res. 221-15 was carried by the
(Adopted) following voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eagan,
Kanuha, Onishi, Paleka, Poindexter,
and Acting Chair Eoff — 8.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Member Wille — 1.
Excused: None.
ACTING CHR. EOFF: At this time, I'll turn the Chair back to Ms. Poindexter.
Relinquish Chair: At this time, Acting Chair Eoff relinquished the Chair to Vice Chair Poindexter.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay, let the record show that I have assumed
the Chair.
On the fiveI was going to do a motion for the 5 -day holdover. But we have a
lot of other contingency funds, so I was going to ask, maybe at a later point that
somebody could just make that motion so we can do it all one time instead of
doing it individually. Are we okay with that? Okay. So let's move to
Resolution 222-15, Mr. Clerk.
Res. 222-15: TRANSFERS/APPROPRIATES AN APPROPRIATION OUT AND FROM
THE DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT AND CREDITS SAME TO A
DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT TO PROVIDE A GRANT TO FRIENDS
OF BIG ISLAND DRUG COURT, INC., TO PAY FOR SERVICES FOR
PARTICIPANTS OF THE BIG ISLAND DRUG COURT AND BIG ISLAND
VETERANS TREATMENT COURT
Transfers/appropriates $10,000 out and from the Clerk -Council Services —
Contingency Relief account (Council District 8); and credits the same to the
Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, Kona Prosecuting Attorney Other Current
Expenses, Miscellaneous Contract Services account (Friends of Big Island Drug
Court, Inc.).
Reference: Comm. 380
Intr. by: Ms. Eoff
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Motion to Approve: Ms. Eoff moved to adopt Res. 222-15. Seconded by
Ms. David.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Eoff.
MS. EOFF: Okay, thank you. I see Mr. Peter Kubota and, also, Prosecutor Roth
here. I'd like to ask them to come forward; but before I do that, I just wanted to
thank them for being here. Because the Veterans Court is a brand new
opportunity here on the Big Island, I thought it would be worthwhile taking a little
bit of time just to talk about it.
(Note: At this time, Peter Kubota, President of Friends of the Big Island
Drug Court; and Mitch Roth, Prosecuting Attorney, came forward to
address the members of the Council.)
MS. EOFF: So go ahead, you can introduce yourselves.
MR. KUBOTA: Good morning. My name is Peter Kubota.
MR. MAEDA: Can you put your microphone on? There you go.
MR. KUBOTA: I'm President of Big Island—Friends of Big Island Drug Court.
We are an organization that supports the actual Drug Court Program, so we're not
Drug Court itself. Drug Court is a judiciary program that was instituted to divert
non-violent first-time offenders out of the regular court system where they need
extra help, and we are an organization that supports this program.
MR. ROTH: Good morning, Council Members. My name is Mitch Roth, and I
am the Prosecuting Attorney for the County of Hawaii. The Office of the
Prosecuting Attorney strongly supports this project. Both Drug Court and
Veterans Court, they both save lives and they save money.
We just got back from a conference with Judge Nakamura, Judge Ibarra, and
Judge Fujino, as well as the Public Defenders. As a team we went up there,
because Drug Court and Veterans Court works as a team and it really makes a
huge difference. Our Veterans Court just started this last year on this island.
We're one of 200 and, I think, 60 in the nation at this time. For those of you who
are not familiar with—Veterans Court operate similar to a Drug Court. It's a
treatment court rather than trying to penalize; however, both Drug Court and
Veterans Court are very difficult to get through.
The reason why we're so supported of the Veterans Court, though, is that our
veterans are the only members of our society who have paid to protect our
freedom with a blank check, with everything up to their lives. A lot of them are
coming back with very serious injuries, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder),
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TBI (Traumatic Brain Injuries), and as a society we've done a terrible job in
recognizing, and supporting our veterans, and this is a way for us to give back to
our veterans for giving so much for us, and for that reason we whole-heartedly
support this resolution.
MS. EOFF: You want to add something?
MR. KUBOTA: Council Members, Eoff, Poindexter, Paleka, and David are all
familiar with the Drug Court and what the difference the Drug Court and what the
Friends of Drug Court doing, and I'm not sure how familiar the rest of the
members are. But really, you know, as Prosecutor Mitch Roth said, Drug Court is
actually harder to go through than just going to jail, I mean, these guys are putting
it down. But what happens is, when the patrons subscribe to participate in this
program, they're being scrutinized more carefully, and they've got more contact
with their Probation Officers and they have to meet certain bench marks and
hurdles to move on towards eventually graduation. And what happens is when
the Drug Court patrons put it down, their family and their friends, and their
employers all come in and they help them because they see the individual making
efforts themselves. The community comes in and helps them get through. And
you guys have gone through graduations; it's like a high school or college
graduation, where everyone comes out and a life is saved by the efforts of the
Drug Court, and what these funds can do for our patrons.
MR. ROTH: And just in case, people are wondering, well, how come you're
taking—treating these guys so good? We know that the regular Criminal Justice
System, our recidivism rate, the rate which people re -offends, we're about
60 percent. Our graduates from Drug Court have been about 10 percent, a little
bit less than 10 percent recidivism rate; that means we have a 90 percent success
rate. And if you grade something, a 90 is generally going to be an "A," a
40 percent success rate is generally going to be an "F," so it really does make
fiscal sense and it makes sense in keeping our community safe and healthy by
having these programs. It's great that the Council is getting involved to help in
this, which is a state function; but really, it keeps our community safe and that's
everybody's responsibility.
MS. EOFF: Well, thank you. I've been a long-time supporter of Drug Court. I
guess it was a couple years ago I attended a presentation by Judge Kubo, when he
first proposed the idea for the Veterans Court, and I was very moved by his
commitment to it, and I'm so happy that Judge Ibarra took it on.
MR. ROTH: If I can, too, just recognize—we have Dan Kama, who is a veteran,
but Dan Kama also was the person responsible for bringing Judge Kubo over to
this island to get our Veterans Court started. If it wasn't for Dan, we wouldn't
have a Veteran's Court. So I just wanted to recognize him. He's here today in
the audience.
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MS. EOFF: Thank you. Yes, I'm also very committed to helping our veterans
any way I can. So, thank you for letting me do this, and your non-profit for being
involved, and thank you, the Prosecuting Attorney's office.
MR. ROTH: Thank you.
MR. KUBOTA: Thank you.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Any other discussion? Council
Member David.
MS. DAVID: Yes. Aloha and mahalo. I am very excited that the Veterans Court
is going to begin. I've been to Drug Court for the last, I think, 10 years that
we've attended graduation. And I cannot express how meaningful Drug Court
has made a difference in the lives of the people that do qualify. I mean, I work for
the courts and I know how hard it is to get into Drug Court. When people do get
in there, they have specialized care; because when they get back out into society,
we create a better person.
I really believe that the veterans deserve this benefit. They're been, not neglected,
but they've been part of a society that the Veterans Administration would assist.
But they do need extra help, and I'm really happy that your organization—and
they have a separate program for them. So, I support this. I'm only sad that I
didn't get a chance to give you any contingency money, too. But if the need
arises, please come and see me. And mahalo, Mr. Kama. Thank you for starting
this, it takes people like you. Thank you. Mahalo.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. So you heard that, go ask her for
money. Was open, I saw your eyes go wide. Council Member Chung.
MR. KUBOTA: Thank you. Good morning.
MR. CHUNG: Good morning, Peter, Mitch. Thank you very much for all you
guys do. Mitch, you talked about the efficacy of the program, and of course I'm
familiar with it, I have more than several clients who have gone through the Drug
Court program. You know, I'm not familiar with the Veterans Treatment Court.
Could you guys just maybe give us a little bit more background so I can
understand this thing? I mean, I'm in full support, of course, but I'm just not
really familiar with it.
MR. ROTH: So, it's very, very similar to Drug Court. The primary difference, I
guess, is you don't have to have a drug problem necessarily to get into Veterans
Treatment Court. In fact, a lot of the people—we just came back from a National
Conference. A lot of people who are in Veterans Treatment Court are there
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because of PTSD, and if you think about someone who's coming back from active
duty, they often times, you know, little sounds are going to set them off. So they
go away and they come back, and all they want is peace and quiet. Well, their
family members, all they want is to have some attention, because they've had to
live without having these people at home. So, you have situations where they're
getting set off by their family members, and they may go and do something
stupid, commit some crimes. They may be drinking, they may be committing
property crimes, and they may even be committing domestic violence.
It's kind of interesting. I went to this conference and I thought, "Wow, we're not
going to let people with domestic violence," but we're seeing that there is a trend
of domestic violence that doesn't start before but afterwards, and they need the
treatment. A lot of times what we're trying to do with the treatment is, you know,
get that Mental Health Services. We do a terrible job in the state for regular
citizens with mental health problems. Veterans, you'd think that the VA
(Veterans Affairs) and government would be taking care of those things, they're
not doing a great job either.
What we've seen with Veterans Court, is veterans have structure when they're in
the military. When they come out of the military, there's no structure. By getting
them back into a structured environment, they're able to heal, they're able to do
better and prevent them from committing crimes. Without a Veterans Treatment
Court, what happens, or without a Drug Court, they just keep on recidivating,
committing different kinds of crimes. It could be theft, it could be all sorts of
things. There are a strong percentage of those groups that has drug problems, so
we're going to be trying to get them drug problems, mental health treatment. All
different kinds of treatment.
MR. CHUNG: So, they have to have committed a crime?
MR. ROTH: They have to have committed a crime.
MR. CHUNG: Okay.
MR. ROTH: That's correct.
MR. CHUNG: So I guess you talked about the recidivism rate.
MR. ROTH: Right.
MR. CHUNG: The Drug Court is being measured, so would that also be a
measure for the veterans?
MR. ROTH: Absolutely. Matter of fact, what we're seeing nationally, and the
success rate in Veterans Treatment Court is much higher than success rate at the
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Drug Courts. And if you think about it, it makes a lot of sense; in the military,
structure is drummed into them, and when you take away the structure they're
kind of free falling. Having them come before a court, you'll see these guys.
They'll stand at parade rest, which, I guess, the hands behind their back. They're
listening to the court. They want the help; they just don't know where to get it, so
we're helping them get that help.
A lot of these people, just so the people understand, are going to be put on
probation without this. Maybe not going to jail—some of them are going to jail.
But they're going to probation, and they may be seeing a Probation Officer once
every month or once every two months. With the Veterans Treatment Court,
they're coming in weekly. And, as an additional benefit, they're also—we also
have mentors, who are people who are veterans, who are helping these people on
a regular, daily basis, keeping them on a straightened arrow. That's one of things
that actually a little bit different than the Drug Court. We don't have—they have,
I guess, mentors, what is it, sponsors but not mentors, that are going through with
them the steps that they need to do, keeping them on line, keeping them focused
to completing their goal.
MR. CHUNG: Wow, wonderful. So, Mitch, you talked about us, as a community
or the state not doing a good job in handling this mental health.
MR. ROTH: I think as a nation.
MR. CHUNG: Well, as a nation, yeah. But, you know, for state, we all know
maybe about eight years ago the state had a huge cutback, right, in mental health
funding, and that had a dramatic, negative impact on being statewide. But what
can we do from the Council side and as a community to get things going again, in
your opinion? And, Peter, you can chime in, too.
MR. ROTH: What you're doing with this bill, that's a great start because we
need a whole bunch of ideas. There's not one magic book that's going to solve
these problems. A lot of the mental health stuff is a state function, but the support
that you're giving is pretty huge. A lot of the problems that we're having are
homelessness. How can we solve homelessness? You look at that, technically, a
lot of those things are state issues. But we can't just say, "Ahh, that's their job."
That's all of our jobs, whether you're a government worker or just an average
every day citizen.
We just had a talk last night in Kona, and I mentioned someone named Sir Robert
Peels. Sir Robert Peels is the father of modern day policing. And what Sir Robert
Peels said is, "The police are the public, and the public are the police." With the
police being the only member of society that is paid to do what is incumbent upon
every citizen, which means it's all of our responsibilities. Either giving through
your churches or getting involved with non -profits, whether it be the Boys and
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Girls Club or what have you, we all have kuleana in here to make our community
safe and healthy. So, I don't know if that answers your question.
MR. CHUNG: I mean, yeah, it did somewhat. And I'm glad you segued into the
homelessness issue, too, and you answered and you addressed it. So, I really do
appreciate both of you being here, and Ms. Eoffs in this regards. So, thank you
very much.
MR. ROTH: Thank you.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Onishi.
MR. ONISHL Thank you. First, I wanted to just acknowledge Mr. Kama again
because he was the spearhead of all of this. And he did come to my office, on like
multiple different issues, right? But then this one, I guess, went—you never came
back, I guess, or like after multiple meetings we had—if I can help you, let me
know. Because the last one you came was about that Medical Center, right?
That's the one you're trying to work on too, right now, right? So I need to let the
public know that Mr. Dan Kama is really an advocate for the veterans, and trying
to get them all these services. Thank you very much for all your help. Yeah,
Sure. Yeah, come. You've got to come on mic. Come on mic, Mr. Kama.
(Note: At this time, Mr. Dan Kama came forward to address the members
of the Council.)
MR. ONISHL You can introduce yourself first.
MR. KAMA: My name is Dan Kama. I support my fellow veterans. There's a
lot of things that's going on, and we're not getting any help. I have talked to
Ron Han, Veterans Administrator, this morning. He called me, realizing that I
was coming here today just to support Mitch.
I want to make it short and to the point. We don't get help. We don't get help
period. We can't wait. What I'm doing now, we're trying to get a Veterans
Medical Clinic here. I've got the support. I'm not asking for money. We want
your support, by signing a letter stating that you will support us; that's all. The
money will come later. I have made the statement to the Congress people, and
they all agree. Easy to talk, let's do the walk. That's all I have to say. I want to
thank you.
MR. ONISHL Thank you for all your hard work. Mitch, you also—like, I'm
going to be echoing what Mr. Chung had mentioned, about funding, basically.
And then, like he mentioned about the state, because we've been working with
domestic violence, and a lot of the programs, a lot of funding come from them.
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MR. ROTH: Right.
August 5, 2015
MR. ONISHL But because of, I guess, their own plan or their thoughts of how
they can make things. What funding used to have back eight years ago got cut.
They're not putting it back in, right? So maybe times where we need to get
everybody, like our representatives from the federal government, from the state
government, Council Members, and we've got to get a meeting. We've got to get
everybody together and discuss how we can improve, I guess, our society, right
and the problems that we're facing like homeless, mental health, and so forth
right? Domestic violence—and like you mentioned, about how—like with
domestic violence you folks see there's a difference because of how these people
were, they're structured, right? Because coming from the military compared to
other individuals who didn't go to the military, right? So that kind of like makes
me think there could be something we could—make a program, right, to help out
the other side of that people who are not in that military background, right?
MR. ROTH: Right.
MR. ONISHL And, so I don't know who would be the person, the front runner,
to get everybody together.
MR. ROTH: Little bit off topic, but I think one of the things that Councilman
Onishi is doing is we have the Annual Domestic Violence Summit, which I think,
it's coming up in September. That would be a perfect time to that, for domestic
violence. I agree with you. We can't continue to just try to do this individually, it
needs to be everybody working together.
MR. ONISHL Yeah, I mean, because like for this Veterans Drug Court, it sounds
so good, and it's proven with the other, right, with the state program? So, how
can we get like maybe our congressional guys to help support?
MR. ROTH: Interesting enough, like I said I just got back from Washington
D.C. We had the conference on both Drug Court and Veterans Court at the same
time. One of things that we did do is we sat down with our Congressional
Delegation, and they were very supportive, although they told us that there's
funding issues that they're battling through. The good thing about these courts is
that there's bilateral support, and we can only hope that they're going to take
action.
MR. ONISHI: You know why, because for us Council Members we're lucky we
have our contingency funds; that we can help with this program. But, you know,
you look at our state representatives, our federal representatives, I mean, they
don't have that, but then that's how they got to be more creative in trying to see
how they can, with the budget or with programs—you know, like Federal, you
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can have one line item but you can attach all this different other funding, right, or
to fund sources, right? So you just got to be creative, right?
MR. ROTH: I could go on a whole—about the state not funding us for things that
they should be funding us and putting it on the county, but
MR. ONISHL Because like you just mentioned, too—because they support the
program but there's no funding. But at least for us, we support the program and
then we're trying to give them funding, too. And then, you know, that—also got
to thank to the Mayor too because he's the one help us get the contingency funds
back, right? Yeah, good work. And, Mr. Kama, thank you very much. And
whatever I can help out, let me know. Thanks.
MR. ROTH: Thank you.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Chung.
MR. CHUNG: Thank you again, Madam Chairman. And using a phrase by
Mr. Roth, I'm going to go off topic. Just for a little while, if I could get some
latitude?
Mr. Kama brought up an interesting point, about getting support from this
Council; and you said, "Not looking for money," and that always picks our
interest when people say they're not looking for money. I always consider
Mr. Onishi as being our intergovernmental relationship guy extraordinaire, and
he's come up with a number of resolutions over, at least during the time that I've
been here, that I've been impressed with him, has had a great deal of success. I'm
just wondering, I'm not in the habit of creating more work for my colleagues or
anything like that, but I'm just wondering; if, Mr. Onishi, you'd be willing to
prepare a resolution supporting—in as much as you have this personal
relationship with Mr. Kama already, that if you can work with him and prepare a
resolution in support of whatever it is that he's looking for? I think that would be
a strong statement by this Council. You're the perfect guy to do it.
MR. ONISHL Yeah, sure. I can do that.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Any other discussion? Council
Member Eagan.
MR. IL,AGAN: Thank you, Madam Chair. First, I have some comments, but I
want to go off -topic on the same subject before I go to the original topic I wanted
to make a comment on. But if I could bring Mr. Kama up forward? Mr. Kama,
we sat down and our office helped draft a support letter, what happened to that
support letter?
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MR. KAMA: It has been moved forward. With that letter that you have given to
meas an example, I created the Veterans Medical Clinic, like a Board of
Directors. On this Board of Directors, the members they are well-known. I'm not
going to mention any names, but they have one mind to support this Veterans
Medical Clinic. So, I presented this letter to them. I say, "You don't have to use
this letter, create your own letter." The bottom line is that sign your signature on
it, and that was it. Does that answer your question?
MR. IL,AGAN: Oh, yes. Because I remember when you were advocating for this
center, and what I felt others were receiving from you was that it's so out of the
box and your vision is not clear, and what I saw was a veteran who really wanted
for other veterans. So, I'm a bit bias myself to veterans because I am a vet. I was
enlisted in the Air National Guard, and I was in there for six years. So when
Mr. Kama came, I tried to understand and tried in words, in a letter, try to capture
his vision, and it took awhile but we finally got some wording to capture that, and
we did our best to give you the support that you needed. We didn't take it all the
way to a resolution format because I wanted to see what Mr. Kama would do with
that, and how far it would go.
But what Mr. Chung suggested, with Mr. OnishiI am in full support with
Mr. Onishi drafting that resolution, and I just wanted to say that would be a great
step. I don't have to be the one taking this on because I understand that we need
everybody to be on this, and we need a non -veteran to be on this. So, I believe
that Mr. Onishi is an extraordinary guy, when it comes to intergovernmental
relations; and with him spear heading it, I feel like it's going to be more
successful. So, I just want to show my support in this.
Now at the same time, the Veterans Drug Court, I was not familiar with the Drug
Court. It might be because I haven't walked in this earth for quite a long time, or
maybe I've been avoiding the cops pretty well. But I just wanted to say I want to
support the Veterans Drug Court, and I want to support the participants who
reside in the Puna District; if it's possible, Mr. Kubota, to allocate. My dedication
would be $5,000 for participants in the Puna area, who would be enrolled in the
Veterans Drug Court. And the reason why I want to preference the Puna area is
because that's the district I represent, and with these contingency funds, it's really
supposed to be for the area that I represent, and I want to give them first
preference before island -wide. Is that at all possible? If it's not, I'm still willing
to support you island -wide.
MR. ROTH: I'm not really sure if we're able to do that. However, I can tell you
one of the things that we're having a big issue, a lot of our clientele from the Drug
Court, and for this side of the island the Veterans Court, we know they're coming
through Puna and we know the huge problems that we have is transportation; so
one of the things that they're doing to help is travel coupons, taxi, bus, and things
like that. The other thing is there are incentives and there's treatment that needs
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to be done. My guess is, if you gave a certain amount of money, a big portion of
that money will automatically go to the Puna District participants.
MR. KUBOTA: I'll echo that. We take for granted some of the very, very basic
needs; like having transportation and having money to apply for GED (General
Education Development) certificate, and stuff like that. If you look
demographically across our island, right now there is 61 patrons from Kona side
and 70 from Hilo side, and a large part of the Hilo side contingency will be from
your district. We do provide transportation coupons and other assistance, just
helps to alleviate the problems that people have from living in such remote areas.
I don't think that there's a way to allocate for a district, but I do believe that the
money will be spent a lot on some of your constituents in Puna.
MR. IL,AGAN: Well, I just want to say thank you. Also, I want to encourage and
support you in your efforts. You've been wonderful in providing the services.
And I'll have my office contact you, once I get your contact information, and
hopefully I can go do the paper work. And thank you, Council Member Eoff, for
bringing this to our attention. Because the fact that you're giving the $10,000, it
gave me awareness that there is this potential to give money to the veterans and I
really appreciate that. Thank you.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Council Member David.
MS. DAVID: Yes, one really quick question. So veterans in my district, like
Ka`u, Na'alehu, Pahala, they would be going to which circuit, in Hilo or in Kona?
MR. ROTH: That's a great question. It really depends on where. But I'll say
this, we know that there are a lot of veterans that—because of the solitude of
Ka`u, for example
MS. DAVID: And Ocean View.
MR. ROTH: —and Ocean View, all of Ka`u. There's people that are going there
because they don't want human interaction. That's a big deal with PTSD. You'll
see the veterans. I learned that a lot of times they'll sit in the back, by the door, so
they can see everybody, and so they're going to those places. So I knowI think
one of them—right now we have four, because we just got started, I think at least
one, maybe two of them, come from Ka`u.
MS. DAVID: Alright. So, I will be contacting you and giving you some money
also. Mahalo.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Any other discussion? Okay,
seeing or hearing none, on Resolution 222-15, all those in favor say "aye."
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Vote on Res. 222-15
(Adopted)
Recess:
Reconvene
Change Order
of Business:
Res. 225-15
August 5, 2015
The motion to adopt Res. 222-15 was carried by the
following voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff,
Eagan, Kanuha, Onishi, Paleka, and
Acting Chair Poindexter – 8.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Member Wille – 1.
Excused: None.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: At this time, I'm going to take a brief recess and
we're going to come back. I'm going to take out of order, since people were
waiting for some time now, on Resolution 239-15. So, we're going to take a
10 minute recess.
At 10:38 a.m., the Chair called for a recess.
The meeting reconvened at 10:52 a.m.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay. I'd like to call this meeting back to order.
And at this time, before going to the 239. I was asked to take—Council Chair
Kanuha has to leave shortly, so I'm going to take 222. Oh, our Clerk is not here
yet. Sorry about that, I should of checked. Okay, so if we can take, Mr. Clerk,
222—is it 222? No, it's not.
MR. MAEDA: 239?
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: 225-15, please?
As directed by the Chair and with no objection from the Council Members, the
following items were taken out of order.
TRANSFERS/APPROPRIATES AN APPROPRIATION OUT AND FROM
THE DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT AND CREDITS SAME TO A
DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT TO PROVIDE A GRANT TO THE
HAWAII COUNTY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL FOR THE
PURCHASE OF CITRIC ACID FOR COUNCIL DISTRICTS 6, 7, AND 8
Transfers/appropriates $2,500 out and from the Clerk -Council Services –
Contingency Relief account (Council District 7); and credits the same to the
Department of Research and Development, Agriculture Research and
Development Other Current Expenses, Miscellaneous Contract Services
account (Citric Acid for Council Districts 6, 7, and 8).
Reference: Comm. 383
Intr. by: Mr. Kanuha
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Motion to Approve: Mr. Kanuha moved to adopt Res. 225-15. Seconded by
Mr. Onishi.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Chair Kanuha.
MR. KANUHA: Thank you, Madam Chair. Just mahalo for the consideration. I
ask for your approval or your support. This is just basically for the citric acid
vouchers here in Districts 6, 7, and 8, and hopefully we can keep those coqui
frogs at bay. Just for the public's information, you can come to the West Hawaii
Civic Center and talk to Scott, and he'll let you know how to get the vouchers and
where it can be picked up. So, I ask for support and mahalo for supporting this
program.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you, very much. Any other discussion?
Council Member Onishi.
MR. ONISHL Thank you, Madam Chair. Chairman Kanuha?
MR. KANUHA: Yes?
MR. ONISHL I wanted to ask him a question.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Sure, go ahead.
MR. ONISHL If you can help provide me funding for air expenses and car, next
year I can go to HIS (Hawai`i Invasive Species) to find some grant money, maybe
working with R&D and
MR. KANUHA: Yes. Absolutely.
MR. ONISHL Instead of you guys using your contingency funds we can use state
funds to help battle the coqui frogs, how's that?
MR. KANUHA: Any way possible to get rid of the coqui frogs we'll all do as
much as we can, so I'll be glad to support you.
MR. ONISHL Okay, thank you. Good to hear that.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Within the United States.
MR. ONISHL Of course.
CHR. POINDEXTER: Are you going to stay within the United—okay, I'm just
checking.
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MR. ONISHL But maybe can get some federal funds from Washington D.C., so
maybe I can fly up there for couple of days, yeah? Thank you.
CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay. Any other discussion? Seeing or hearing none,
okay so on Resolution 225-15 all those in favor say "aye."
Vote on Res. 225-15: The motion to adopt Res. 225-15 was carried by the
(Adopted) following voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff,
Eagan, Kanuha, Onishi, Paleka, and
Acting Chair Poindexter — 8.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Member Wille — 1.
Excused: None.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: So now if we can take out of order 232-15,
Mr. Clerk?
Res. 232-15: AUTHORIZES THE DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT TO AWARD FUNDS TO THE HAWAII COUNTY
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL (HCEOC)
Provides $220,000 to HCEOC to supplement the operation of a Transmedia
Accelerator Program.
Reference: Comm. 390
Intr. by: Ms. Eoff
Waived: FC
Motion to Approve: Ms. Eoff moved to adopt Res. 232-15. Seconded by
Mr. Onishi.
CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Eoff.
MS. EOFF: I think we've been supporting the Accelerator program for a couple
of years now, and Research and Development has been very, very supportive. I
know Mr. Cunningham is still in Kona, if anybody has any questions, but I heard
just to continue to support them.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Any discussions, or questions? Hearing or
seeing noneoh, okay, Council Member Eagan.
MR. IL,AGAN: Thank you. I know I missed the last one. But I just want to say
how great this is, and I also want to thank Ilihia Gionson for bringing this up and
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really spearheading this program. I just wanted to give a "shout out" to him,
because as the film commissioner I feel like he hasn't been given as much
recognition that he definitely deserves. Thank you.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you very much.
MS. EOFF: Madam Chair?
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Eoff.
MS. EOFF: I'm sorry. I just wanted to add that if anyone has a chance when
you're in Kona, you should go checkout their facility. I just went there recently
and it's so exciting there. with what they've done. And we have this handout, too,
that was given to us today.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay. So any other discussion? Seeing or
hearing none, all those in favor of 232-15 say "aye."
Vote on Res. 232-15: The motion to adopt Res. 232-15 was carried by the
(Adopted) following voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff,
Eagan, Kanuha, Onishi, Paleka, and
Acting Chair Poindexter – 8.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Member Wille – 1.
Excused: None.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Motion passes.
MR. KANUHA: Madam Chair?
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Yes.
MR. KANUHA: Is okay—oh sorry, you're going to waive it later. Never mind.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Yeah. So right now we're going to go to
Resolution 239-15, Mr. Clerk.
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Res. 239-15: AUTHORIZES THE EXEMPTION OF CERTAIN CODE REQUIREMENTS,
PURSUANT TO SECTION 201H-38 AND SECTION 46-15 OF THE
HAWAII REVISED STATUTES, FOR HUALALAI HEALTH, LLC, KONA,
HAWAII, COVERED BY TAX MAP KEY: 7-5-010:061
Authorizes the County to exempt the West Hawaii Senior Living project from
certain code requirements to help reduce the cost of producing the affordable
housing portion of the project. The exemptions would defray the costs of
certain building permit fees, remove the requirement for a use permit, and
remove change of zone conditions relating to road improvements and fair
share/impact fees.
Reference: Comm. 401
Intr. by: Ms. David (B/R)
Waived: HSSSC
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member David.
MS. DAVID: Mahalo, Chair Poindexter. At this time, I'd like to make a
statement first. That given we
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Can we do a motion first then we can have a
discussion? And then you can, if you want to do something with that motion after
the discussion.
MS. DAVID: Actually, I'm going to withdraw the resolution. Based on some of
the testimony today and the legal issues that are pending, I don't think—in order
to preserve all the party's rights, I'm going to withdraw it, and we can take care of
those issues and address it. I don't want to go into discussion.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay, so not even discuss it. There is no
motion right now, so we're just withdrawing.
MS. DAVID: No, I'm just going to withdraw it, based on the testimony and to
preserve our rights.
Withdraw Res. 239-15: Ms. David announced the withdrawal of Res. 239-15.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay, so now we are just moving on because
we don't have to vote on anything because it's withdrawn.
MS. DAVID: Mahalo.
CHR. POINDEXTER: So for the public clarification, Resolution 239-15 is
withdrawn. Okay, moving back to our agenda. On page three, Mr. Clerk,
Resolution 223-15, please.
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Return to Order The Chair directed the Council to return to the order of business.
of Business:
Res. 223-15: TRANSFERS/APPROPRIATES AN APPROPRIATION OUT AND FROM
THE DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT AND CREDITS SAME TO A
DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT TO PROVIDE A GRANT TO THE
HAWAII COUNTY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL FOR THE
PURCHASE OF CITRIC ACID TO CONTROL COOUI FROGS
Transfers/appropriates $2,500 out and from the Clerk -Council Services —
Contingency Relief account (Council District 8); and credits the same to the
Department of Research and Development, Agriculture Research and
Development Other Current Expenses, Miscellaneous Contract Services
account (Citric Acid for Coqui Frog Control).
Reference: Comm. 381
Intr. by: Ms. Eoff
Motion to Approve: Ms. Eoff moved to adopt Res. 223-15. Seconded by
Ms. David.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Eoff.
MS. EOFF: I think Mr. Kanuha explained this. We've done it before, where the
vouchers are available at West Hawaii Civic Center for coqui frog control. It
was very successful the last few times we've put money together for this, so we're
just going to continue to do what we can to eradicate.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Council Member Onishi.
MR. ONISHL I just want to echo, what I mentioned earlier. I'll help you guys.
We all can work together and get some grant from the HIS.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: There's more to come.
MR. ONISHL Yeah, okay. I know.
CHR. POINDEXTER: Any other discussion? Okay, seeing or hearing none, all
those in favor of Resolution 223-15 say "aye."
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Vote on Res. 223-15: The motion to adopt Res. 223-15 was carried by the
(Adopted) following voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff,
Eagan, Kanuha, Onishi, Paleka, and
Acting Chair Poindexter – 8.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Member Wille – 1.
Excused: None.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Motion is approved. Resolution 223-15 is
approved. Mr. Clerk, Resolution 224-15, please?
Res. 224-15: TRANSFERS/APPROPRIATES AN APPROPRIATION OUT AND FROM
THE DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT AND CREDITS SAME TO A
DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT TO PROVIDE A GRANT TO THE
HAWAII COUNTY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL FOR THE
PURCHASE OF CITRIC ACID TO CONTROL COQUI FROGS
Transfers/appropriates $3,500 out and from the Clerk -Council Services –
Contingency Relief account (Council District 6); and credits the same to the
Department of Research and Development, Agriculture Research and
Development Other Current Expenses, Miscellaneous Contract Services
account (Citric Acid for Coqui Frog Control).
Reference: Comm. 382
Intr. by: Ms. David
Motion to Approve: Ms. David moved to adopt Res. 224-15. Seconded by
Mr. Paleka.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member David.
MS. DAVID: Thank you. Yes, Mr. Onishi, you can count me in. And I just
needed to let my constituents know, in Na'alehu or Ka`u basically, that this
program—in the prior programs awareness about the free voucher system was not
well-known. So now that we're video streaming, I want to let my constituents
know that they can come to the office and pick up vouchers; and the two places, I
believe they can redeem them will be, one place in Hilo and at Al's Farm and
Garden in Kona. So, thank you for your support. This will help the farmers a lot.
Thank you.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Any other discussions? Seeing or
hearing none, Resolution 224-15, all those in favor say "aye."
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Vote on Res. 224-15
(Adopted)
August 5, 2015
The motion to adopt Res. 224-15 was carried by the
following voice vote:
Ayes:
Council Members Chung, David, Eoff,
Eagan, Kanuha, Onishi, Paleka, and
Acting Chair Poindexter — 8.
Noes:
None.
Absent:
Council Member Wille — 1.
Excused:
None.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Let's go to Resolution 226-15, Mr. Clerk.
Res. 226-15: TRANSFERS/APPROPRIATES AN APPROPRIATION OUT AND FROM
THE DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT AND CREDITS SAME TO A
DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT TO PROVIDE A GRANT TO
HAWAII COUNTY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL TO
PURCHASE CITRIC ACID TO HELP CONTROL THE COQUI FROG
INFESTATION IN COUNCIL DISTRICT 5
Transfers/appropriates $2,000 out and from the Clerk -Council Services —
Contingency Relief account (Council District 5); and credits the same to the
Department of Research and Development, Agriculture Research and
Development Other Current Expenses, Miscellaneous Contract Services
account (Citric Acid for Coqui Control).
Reference: Comm. 384
Intr. by: Mr. Paleka
Motion to Approve: Mr. Paleka moved to adopt Res. 226-15. Seconded by
Ms. David.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Paleka.
MR. PALEKA: This is just a supporting resolution. Another contingency relief
appropriation, $2,000. So, come pick up your citric acid. And, please support.
Mahalo.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Resolution 226-15, all those in
favor say "aye."
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Vote on Res. 226-15
(Adopted)
Res. 227-15
Motion to Approve:
August 5, 2015
The motion to adopt Res. 226-15 was carried by the
following voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff,
Eagan, Kanuha, Onishi, Paleka, and
Acting Chair Poindexter – 8.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Member Wille – 1.
Excused: None.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Motion passes. Mr. Clerk, Resolution 227-15.
TRANSFERS/APPROPRIATES AN APPROPRIATION OUT AND FROM
THE DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT AND CREDITS SAME TO A
DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT TO PROVIDE A GRANT TO THE
HAWAII COUNTY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL FOR THE
PURCHASE OF CITRIC ACID TO HELP CONTROL COQUI FROGS IN
COUNCIL DISTRICT 1
Transfers/appropriates $2,000 out and from the Clerk -Council Services –
Contingency Relief account (Council District 1); and credits the same to the
Department of Research and Development, Agriculture Research and
Development Other Current Expenses, Miscellaneous Contract Services
account (Citric Acid for Council District 1).
Reference: Comm. 385
Intr. by: Ms. Poindexter
Mr. Onishi moved to adopt Res. 227-15. Seconded by
Ms. David.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Any discussion? Okay, Council
Member Onishi.
MR. ONISHL So, this is also—they can, I guess, rent out or to lease out the
machines, like the sprayers?
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: This is for the citric acid itself. The County
has, from my understanding, the County has the sprayers. Like I know in my
district, I think I have two sprayers out in my district. I know who has it, so when
other people need it they kind of share it all in the district. So it would be
contacting, I guess, somebody at the County who has the sprayers. So, I don't
know who has sprayers in your district.
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MR. ONISHL Because I remember, I think, before HCEOC (Hawai`i County
Economic Opportunity Council) used to take care of everything. They used to
hold on to the sprayers, I think, and then you could just go there and then get
everything.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: These funds is just to purchase the citric acid.
MR. ONISHL Yeah, for HCEOC, right, so they can get that voucher or
whatever?
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Yeah, so they can—you know, the buying
power. They get it cheaper, so we go through them.
MR. ONISHL Yeah. Right, right, right. And so, do people have to, just for the
public to know, that's why, or they have to go to R&D? Oh here, Glenn Sako's
coming.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay.
MR. ONISHL Good. Thank you, Glenn. Glenn?
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Can you come forward?
(Note: At this time, Economic Development Specialist Glenn Sako came
forward to address the members of the Council.)
MR. ONISHL Just for the public's, I guess, information about the sprayers, so
who do they go to sign up for the sprayers?
MR. SAKO: Good morning, Council. Regarding the sprayers that are available
through the county, we have a number of co-operators throughout the island, who
have signed up and have agreed to make the sprayers available to people who
want to use them. So, what has happen in the past is they would call the R&D
office, I would find out what area they're located in, and then refer the appropriate
co-operators, giving their contact information to them so that they can make
arrangements to pick up the sprayer.
MR. ONISHL Okay. And then R&D still continues to maintain it?
MR. SAKO: The co-operators are required to maintain the sprayers on their own.
However, I have been—allocated some small—some funds to help out with some
major repairs. We've been trying to manage that budget so that we can try to help
as many sprayers as possible.
MR. ONISHL Okay. Well, thank you.
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ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay. Any discussions or questions? Okay,
seeing or hearing none, for Resolution 227-15 all those in favor say "aye."
Vote on Res. 227-15: The motion to adopt Res. 227-15 was carried by the
(Adopted) following voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff,
Eagan, Kanuha, Onishi, Paleka, and
Acting Chair Poindexter — 8.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Member Wille — 1.
Excused: None.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: So, motion passes.
MR. ONISHL Madam Chair?
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Yes?
MR. ONISHL Since Mr. Sako is here, can we take out of order Resolution 231-15?
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay. Mr. Clerk, can you please read in
231-15?
Change Order As directed by the Chair and with no objections from the Council Members, the
of Business: following item was taken out of order:
Res. 231-15: AUTHORIZES THE OFFICE OF THE MAYOR TO ENTER INTO AN
AGREEMENT WITH THE STATE OF HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF
AGRICULTURE, PURSUANT TO HAWAII REVISED STATUTES
SECTION 46-7
Provides $450,000 to the Research and Development Department to implement
the Coffee Berry Borer Pesticide Subsidy Program to assist coffee growers to
purchase pesticides containing Beauveria bassiana to combat the coffee berry
borer.
Reference: Comm. 389
Intr. by: Ms. Eoff
Waived: FC
Motion to Approve: Ms. Eoff moved to adopt Res. 231-15. Seconded by
Mr. Onishi.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Eoff.
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MS. EOFF: I'll go ahead and yield to Mr. Onishi.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Onishi.
MR. ONISHL Thank you. Maybe, Mr. Sako, you can just explain. Because, I
mean, Council Members, you guys must be kind of wondering we already passed
this before and why is this coming back up again? So, Mr. Sako, please?
MR. SAKO: Thank you. The purpose of this is that we received the funds from
the state and now we need permission to enter into a contract with the state to
allow them to conduct this program. We are working out the details with the state
right now, but basically it's just to be able to authorize to enter into a contract
with the state for this program to combat the coffee berry borer.
MR. ONISHL Thank you for your explanation. So, hoping you guys can support
it. Thank you.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Okay, any other discussion?
Seeing or hearing none, okay, on Resolution 231-15, all those in favor say "aye."
Vote on Res. 231-15: The motion to adopt Res. 231-15 was carried by the
(Adopted) following voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Eagan,
Onishi, Paleka, and Acting Chair Poindexter – 7.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Members Kanuha and Wille – 2.
Excused: None.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Now, we're back—okay, we're back to page
five. Resolution 229-15, Mr. Clerk.
Return to Order The Chair directed the Council to return to the order of business.
of Business:
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Res. 229-15: TRANSFERS/APPROPRIATES AN APPROPRIATION OUT AND FROM
THE DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT AND CREDITS SAME TO A
DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT TO PROVIDE A GRANT TO THE
BIG ISLAND LIONS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS
AND EVENTS TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT THE EFFECTS OF
ALCOHOL AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN FAMILY LIFE
Transfers/appropriates $5,000 out and from the Clerk -Council Services –
Contingency Relief account (Council District 3); and credits the same to the
Department of Liquor Control, Public Programs, Miscellaneous Contract
Services account (Big Island Lions Foundation).
Reference: Comm. 387
Intr. by: Mr. Onishi
Motion to Approve Mr. Onishi moved to adopt Res. 229-15. Seconded by
Ms. David.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Onishi.
MR. ONISHL Yeah, I just ask for your support. This is going to help with
well, Akaka Falls Lions Club, they always help out a lot with different programs;
so this will help provide funding for them to continue, I guess, some programs
that they have, but also increasing other programs. For example, Mitch Roth had
mentioned about that summit, that Domestic Violence Summit, so that some of
the funds are going to be helping with that program—well, with that summit. So,
asking for your support. Thanks.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Any other discussion? Seeing or
hearing none. So Resolution 229-15, all those in favor say "aye."
Vote on Res. 229-15: The motion to adopt Res. 229-15 was carried by the
(Adopted) following voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Eagan,
Onishi, Paleka, and Acting Chair Poindexter – 7.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Members Kanuha and Wille – 2.
Excused: None.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Resolution 230-15, Mr. Clerk.
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Res. 230-15: TRANSFERS/APPROPRIATES AN APPROPRIATION OUT AND FROM
THE DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT AND CREDITS SAME TO A
DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT FOR SIGNAGE EQUIPMENT FOR
THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION
Transfers/appropriates $7,190 out and from the Clerk -Council Services –
Contingency Relief account (Council District 3); and credits the same to the
Department of Parks and Recreation, Parks Maintenance Equipment,
Miscellaneous Equipment account (Signage Equipment) ($6,590) and
Department of Parks and Recreation, Parks Maintenance Equipment, Computer
Equipment and Software account (Computer for Signage Equipment) ($600).
Reference: Comm. 388
Intr. by: Mr. Onishi
Motion to Approve: Mr. Onishi moved to adopt 230-15. Seconded by
Mr. Paleka.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Onishi.
MR. ONISHL Okay, thank you. All the years I've always had contingency
funds, I've always go to see the different departments, well, I shouldn't say all the
departments but I usually go see Parks and Recreation because, you know, either
if it's in recreation or if it's in parks they always need help because they're like
one of theI guess, the children that not really paid attention to much too, right?
So the thing is I always ask them, "What do they need help in," right? So with
this purchase for them, they'll be able to do all our signs at our centers, in our
facilities, at the park. You know those wooden signs that they have carved out,
this is what this machine going help them out with. So, they don't have to go out
anymore and they can do them in-house and they can get things done faster, right?
So I encourage Council Members, my colleagues, to go and talk story with them,
because you know, like, they need lawn mowers. You know, those riding—they
have like aging ones. But I've talked to Director Honma last week, and I think
they are purchasing one or two new ones. But if you look at every district, they
have like very old machines and they break down; and so what happens is if they
cannot cut the grass, like in the field, now instead of every like two three weeks,
they're going have to come maybe like once a month or every six weeks or so, so
the grass tall, people start calling us up, right?
So in one way, if you folks can, you know, like I said, I encourage you guys to go
talk to them and find out how you guys can help them out. I mean, because I've
known where, Council Members, you guys got score boards. Mr. Paleka, I think
last year or this past year you got the score board for Mountain View, right, which
they were in dire need. Mountain View score board was a round circle one, with
like up to eight minutes I think only. So if you had a 12 minute quarter, you had
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to go like four minutes down and then you had to add on after that. I'm serious.
They had the old—so that's why, too, Director Honma, we should put that in one
museum because that's theI think Pa`auilo before used to have that, too, but
that's the last one that I think is on the island. Yeah, so if you guys can help, I
mean that would be great. But please support this, thanks.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Any other discussion? Seeing or
hearing none, Resolution 230-15, all those in favor say "aye."
Vote on Res. 230-15: The motion to adopt Res. 230-15 was carried by the
(Adopted) following voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Eagan,
Onishi, Paleka, and Acting Chair Poindexter – 7.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Members Kanuha and Wille – 2.
Excused: None.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Motion passes. So, now we move to page
seven. Resolution 233-15, Mr. Clerk.
Res. 233-15: TRANSFERS/APPROPRIATES AN APPROPRIATION OUT AND FROM
THE DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT AND CREDITS SAME TO A
DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT TO PROVIDE A GRANT TO THE
HAWAII COUNTY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL TO
PURCHASE CITRIC ACID TO HELP CONTROL COQUI FROGS
Transfers/appropriates $6,000 out and from the Clerk -Council Services –
Contingency Relief account (Council District 2); and credits the same to the
Department of Research and Development, Agriculture Research and
Development Other Current Expenses, Miscellaneous Contract Services
account (Citric Acid for Coqui Control).
Reference: Comm. 391
Intr. by: Mr. Chung
Motion to Approve: Mr. Chung moved to adopt Res. 233-15. Seconded by
Mr. Onishi.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Chung.
MR. CHUNG: Thank you. Yeah, I wanted to point out this large amount in
relation to all the other appropriations that have been made today, $6,000. That
really is a function of the awareness of this district of this program, and it's a
tribute to my predecessor, actually, J Yoshimoto, who really had an outreach in
getting into the different community associations. So there's a need for it, and
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(Adopted)
August 5, 2015
people are aware of the program, and also it's very affective. I guess the reason
why it's so affective is, my district is a largely urban area so it's easy to control,
and people can see the success of it, as opposed to like these rural areas. It's, like
really hard, very difficult to see the success of the program. But here, you know,
spray here and there, and then people actually enjoy quiet evenings in Hilo. But I
just wanted to point that out, the large amount, and really thank my predecessor
J Yoshimoto for all he did in this regard. Thank you.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay. Seeing or hearing none, in regards to
233-15, all those in favor say "aye."
The motion to adopt Res. 233-15 was carried by the
following voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Eagan,
Onishi, Paleka, and Acting Chair Poindexter — 7.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Members Kanuha and Wille — 2.
Excused: None.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Motion passes. Resolution 235-15. Mr. Clerk.
Res. 235-15: AUTHORIZES THE ACCEPTANCE OF A DONATION OF 100 FISHING
ROD AND REEL KITS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND
RECREATION
Donated by S. Tokunaga Store, Inc., and valued at $2,499 to be used at the
Ohana Fishing Tournament in August 2015.
Reference: Comm. 394
Intr. by: Ms. Eoff
Waived: FC
Motion to Approve: Ms. Eoff moved to adopt Res. 235-15. Seconded by
Mr. Paleka.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Eoff.
MS. EOFF: I just like to say thank you to Tokunaga.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Any other discussion? Council Member Onishi,
go ahead.
MR. ONISHL Thank you, Madam Chair. Yeah, I just wanted to echo that, too,
to thanking Mr. and Mrs. Tokunaga for donating all this to us. Thank you.
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ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Yeah, because I know they've been doing this
for years with this so thank you for acknowledging that. Okay, so on
Resolution 235-15, all those in favor say "aye."
Vote on Res. 235-15: The motion to adopt Res. 235-15 was carried by the
(Adopted) following voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Eagan,
Onishi, Paleka, and Acting Chair Poindexter — 7.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Members Kanuha and Wille — 2.
Excused: None.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Motion passes. Resolution 236-15. Mr. Clerk.
Res. 236-15: AUTHORIZES THE ACCEPTANCE OF A DONATION OF A
TWENTY FOOT SHIPPING CONTAINER TO THE DEPARTMENT OF
PARKS AND RECREATION
Donated by S. Tokunaga Store, Inc., and valued at $6,000 to be utilized by the
Skeet Club at the Hawaii Skeet Range to store tools, targets, and other
miscellaneous items.
Reference
Intr. by:
Waived:
Comm. 395
Ms. Eoff
FC
Motion to Approve: Ms. Eoff moved to adopt Res. 236-15. Seconded by
Ms. David.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Eoff.
MS. EOFF: Will just say thank you again to the Tokunaga Store for all that they
do for the community.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Any other discussion? Council
Member Chung.
MR. CHUNG: Yeah, thank you. I've waited for this resolution to actually offer
my thanks to the Tokunaga family. Mike and his father, and I'm assuming his
grandfather before them, have always been great community partners, and this is
just wonderful, what they continue to do. So, thank you to that family.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Any other discussion? Seeing or
hearing none, Resolution 236-15, all those in favor say "aye."
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Vote on Res. 236-15
(Adopted)
August 5, 2015
The motion to adopt Res. 236-15 was carried by the
following voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Eagan,
Onishi, Paleka, and Acting Chair Poindexter — 7.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Members Kanuha and Wille — 2.
Excused: None.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Motion passes. Resolution 237-15. Mr. Clerk.
Res. 237-15: PROPOSES AN AMENDMENT TO THE COUNTY OF HAWAII
GENERAL PLAN, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE GENERAL PLAN
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW PROCESS, RELATING TO MASS TRANSIT
Proposes the following amendments to the General Plan: 1) If the Mass Transit
Master Plan is completed in sufficient time, incorporate it into the General Plan
update, and 2) Incorporate provisions into the General Plan to assure that Mass
Transit policies and facilities are compliant with the Americans with
Disabilities Act.
Reference: Comm. 397
Intr. by: Mr. Paleka
Waived: PC
Motion to Approve: Mr. Paleka moved to adopt Res. 237-15. Seconded by
Mr. Onishi.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Paleka.
MR. PALEKA: Yeah, this is just a resolution to adopt the Mass Transit Plan
upon completion, should it be completed in a timely manner, into the General
Plan, and also incorporates provisions into the General Plan from that product that
becomes available after doing the Mass Transit Plan. So, I'm just seeking your
support in approving this measure. Mahalo.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Eoff.
MS. EOFF: Okay, thank you. I want to thank Mr. Paleka for his follow-through
on this idea that we've been discussing here for a while now, I think since during
the budget time. I support this concept, and I'm looking forward to helping out
with identifying the routes.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Council Member Onishi.
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MR. ONISHL Thank you, Madam Chair. Yeah, I just also want to thank
Council Member Paleka. But also to Tiffany Kai from Mass Transit; the Mayor
Kenoi, because like I said yesterday, they had called me up to ask me what did I
want to see in the Mass Transit Master Plan, right? So part of it, what I wanted tc
see, was that maybe in the future, like 50 years from now we might have to put in
light rail. So if we do have that, then we should at least know where the stations
are and that's how you can determine development, right, because then you look
at the growth and so forth. So, I want to thank them and thank you. And I think
this is how the process should be, instead of like yesterday's one, right, so that's
why I mentioned that's what we had to look at. But, thank you.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you, very much. Council Member
Eagan.
MR. IL,AGAN: Thank you, Madam Chair. I also want to thank Council Member
Paleka for his spearheading of the Mass Transit Master Plan. As we are all aware
that land came, regarding the baby boomers, and now we did the whole Drug
Court regarding—didn't really—under—they started to become aware that basic
necessities, like transportation, has become an issue. And Council Member
Paleka has been doing a great job in trying to figure out all of the pieces of this
puzzle and putting it together, so I just want to thank him for doing an outstanding
job on that.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Council Member Paleka. Oh,
Council Member David? Okay, then we'll close with Mr. Paleka.
MS. DAVID: Thank you, Madam Chair. I just wanted to echo Mr. Paleka's
diligence in putting forth this General Plan proposal. And, yes, I believe this is
the method that we should be using and I thank him for that example. Mahalo.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Council Member Paleka.
MR. PALEKA: I just want to thank you all for your support, and for Tiffany
really responding. I think it's important that we include—what can at some times
be our vulnerable portions of society? That's the elderly and the disabled that I
really want to address, and it's been voiced a lot through our community. And
echoing what my colleague Council Member Eagan has said, "Transportation is
going to become a big issue," and that's why I felt so much and so strongly that
infrastruction—whew, I just thinking of my grandfather. You know when
because he was such a strong supporter, "Boy, just get them on the ground," and
that's all I think about when I think about this issue. But, thank you again. Thank
you for your support.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you, Mr. Paleka. Resolution 237-15, all
those in favor say "aye."
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Vote on Res. 237-15: The motion to adopt Res. 237-15 was carried by the
(Adopted) following voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Eagan,
Onishi, Paleka, and Acting Chair Poindexter — 7.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Members Kanuha and Wille — 2.
Excused: None.
August 5, 2015
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Motion passes. Now we move to Bills for
Ordinances (First Reading). Bill 62, Mr. Clerk.
BILLS FOR The Chair directed the Council to proceed to the next order of business,
ORDINANCES Bills for Ordinances (First Reading).
(FIRST READING):
Bill 62: INITIATES AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE VI, CHAPTER 3,
SECTION 6-3.4, OF THE HAWAII COUNTY CHARTER (2014),
RELATING TO COUNTY BANDS
Removes language specifying that bandmasters and band employees are
appointed and exempt from civil service laws and classifications.
Reference: Comm. 357
Intr. by: Mr. Onishi
Approve: PWPRC-11
(Note: Comm. 357. 1, from Council Member Onishi dated July 27, 2015,
transmitting proposed amendments to Bill 62, was circulated.)
Motion to Approve: Mr. Onishi moved to pass Bill 62 on first reading and adopt
Public Works and Parks and Recreation Committee
Report No. 11. Seconded by Ms. David.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Onishi.
MR. ONISHL Thank you, Madam Chair. Okay, at this time I wanted to amend
Bill 62 with the Communication 357.1.
Motion to Amend: Mr. Onishi moved to amend Bill 62 with the contents of
Comm. 357.1. Seconded by Ms. David.
MR. ONISHL And this is in regards to our discussion from the last committee
meeting. Where, we should just strike out everything, and so that's what's
happening. So we're taking all that, like the County Band and all that from, what
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you call, the Charter. Because what it says here, well, the only sentence that was
in, it was "The county band shall be part of the department of parks and recreation
for administrative purposes." The discussion was that it's already in there, so we
don't need that to be left in the Charter.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay, any other discussion on
Communication 357.1? Okay. Soon Communication 357.1, all those in
favor say "aye."
Vote on Motion to Amend: The motion to amend Bill 62 with the contents of
(Approved) Comm. 357.1 was carried by the following voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Eagan,
Onishi, Paleka, and Acting Chair Poindexter – 7.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Members Kanuha and Wille – 2.
Excused: None.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay, so Communication 357.1 is approved.
Now we go to Bill 62, as amended with Communication 357.1. Any discussion?
No? Okay.
MR. MAEDA: We need a motion and a second for Bill 62.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Oh, I thought we did—we had the motion,
yeah?
MR. MAEDA: I missed that.
CHR. POINDEXTER: No, that's okay. And then the Communication 357 was
motioned in by Council Member Onishi and also seconded by Council Member
David, and then the vote was for 357.1. Now we're back to the main motion, Bill
62, as amended with the Communication 357.1. So if there's no further
discussion, all those in favor say "aye."
Vote on Bill 62: The motion to pass Bill 62, as amended to Draft 2, on
Draft 2 first reading, was carried by the following voice vote:
(Approved)
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Eagan,
Onishi, Paleka, and Acting Chair Poindexter – 7.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Members Kanuha and Wille – 2.
Excused: None.
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ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Bill 62, as amended, passes. We now go to
Bill 63, Mr. Clerk.
Bill 63: AMENDS ORDINANCE NO. 15-58, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS AND FINANCING THEREOF FOR THE
FISCAL YEAR JULY 1, 2015, TO NNE 30, 2016
Adds the Public Works Kapi`olani Street Extension, Mohouli Street to
Lanikaula Street project for $500,000 to the Capital Budget. Funds for the
project shall be provided from General Obligation Bonds, Capital Projects
Fund - Fund Balance and/or Other Sources ($500,000). Funds would be used
towards increased construction costs from unforeseen circumstances such as the
discovery of unsuitable ground materials found while performing clearing,
grubbing, and subgrade preparation work.
Motion to Approve:
Vote on Bill 63
(Approved)
Reference: Comm. 362
Intr. by: Ms. Eoff
Approve: FC -30
Note: Requires 2/3 vote of the entire
membership to amend, pursuant to
Section 10-6(e), Hawai`i County Charter
Ms. Eoff moved to pass Bill 63 on first reading and adopt
Finance Committee Report No. 30. Seconded by Mr. Paleka.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Eoff.
MS. EOFF: Council Members, I just urge us to keep moving this forward. Thank
you.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay. Any other discussion? Seeing or hearing
none, all those in favor of Bill 63 please say "aye."
The motion to pass Bill 63 on first reading and adopt
Finance Committee Report No. 30 was carried by the
following voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Eagan,
Onishi, Paleka, and Acting Chair Poindexter — 7.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Members Kanuha and Wille — 2.
Excused: None.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Bill 63 passes. We go to Bill 73, Mr. Clerk.
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Bill 73: AMENDS ORDINANCE NO. 15-57, AS AMENDED, THE OPERATING
BUDGET FOR THE COUNTY OF HAWAII FOR THE FISCAL YEAR
ENDING JUNE 30. 2016
Appropriates revenues in the Transfer from General Fund account ($6,706.26);
and appropriates the same to the L6kahi Treatment Center account (Grant to the
L6kahi Treatment Center – District 4). Funds would be used for the rental of
office space in the Pahoa Village Center.
Reference: Comm. 400
Intr. by: Ms. Eoff
Waived: FC
Motion to Approve: Ms. Eoff moved to pass Bill 73 on first reading. Seconded by
Ms. David.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Any discussion? Council Member Chung.
MR. CHUNG: Thank you. First of all, I want to thank and congratulate both
Mr. Ilagan and Ms. Eoff for bringing this forward. But I had a question and it
really relates to Ms. David's district, what is the State of Affairs of services in the
Ka`u area? I mean, like L6kahi, other things?
MS. DAVID: I believe L6kahi is out there, but I'm not really sure.
MR. CHUNG: Yeah, I mean, I'm not too sure myself, but, you know, and maybe
not just for L6kahi. As you guys know, I do a lot of work in the judicial system.
As Dr. Wasson said, a lot of the services are court -driven, right? And I know for
a fact that in the Ka`u area there's a great need, where people are having to go all
the way to either Kona, or possibly Hilo, and maybe L6kahi's there, but for other
things it's really, really tough. I'm not putting the burden on you, but I'm just
saying that maybe that's something we should really look at because there's a
huge need out there in Ka`u.
MS. DAVID: Oh, yes. I think you're right, and how we address that is what I
think we have to concentrate on. Because transportation, I know especially in
Ocean View, it's really bad.
MR. CHUNG: Right. Exactly.
MS. DAVID: So I thank you for that, and I think we have to kind of work on this
together as a body.
MR. CHUNG: For sure. And I offer my assistance because I've seen what—and
actually Mr. Maeda, he's seen it really up -close and personal too, the lack of
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services in that area and what the devastating affects it has on the families who's
trying to put their lives together. That's really tough.
MS. DAVID: Exactly. Thank you.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Eagan.
MR. IL,AGAN: Thank you, Madam Chair. And just to add additional
information about Lokahi Treatment Center, on their brochure they have numbers
for Hilo, Honoka`a, Kohala, Kona, Pahoa, and Waikoloa, each individual contact
information is on there and, of course, the services Integrated Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services. So, I just wanted to add that in. There's a lot more.
I'm just just a snap shot, because that's what we're on, Bill 73. But I echo
Council Member Chung's statement. And any support that I can provide to help
for Ka`u, I'm there.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay. So I'd just like to say that while working
with Lokahi Treatment Centers, we had to close down the Ka`u office because of
funding and the lack of funding. And, I think, at the state level, if we can all start
chiming in with ADAD (Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division), the Drug
Administration Division, and working with our congressional or our leaders at the
federal level, as well.
And what happened there, was just not enough funding to keep it open, as far as
the over -head, because the expenses, the over -head expenses were the ones that
were really difficult, especially in rural areas. I'm hoping we can get a lot of
funding in the rural areas because that's where we're struggling. So anyway, I
just wanted to share that. Okay, so Billoh, Council Member Paleka, did you
want to say something?
MR. PALEKA: Maybe I just wanted to add maybe if we could, at least part-time,
you know, since they're going to have presence, I guess, in Puna, you know.
Maybe we could—if they would need additional funding, I'm certainly willing,
to—and just to have the services available in the Ka`u, and provide for
transportation where they go to the need. I mean, it's just an option. Just a
suggestion.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Yeah, maybe working with Lokahi, like I
think— Mr. Eagan, you worked with them. Maybe working with Mr. Eagan on
how that happened, and maybe you could see what you could do to help in that
area. Council Member Eagan.
MR. IL,AGAN: Yes, I agree with Council Member Paleka, those ideas about
transportation or part-time. And just to clarify the purpose of these funds, is
actually for overhead regarding the rental space. And, at first, it was hard to
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Vote on Bill 73
(Approved)
ORDER OF
THE DAY
(SECOND OR
FINAL READING):
Bill 64:
August 5, 2015
figure out how to do that to our county's administrative system, because what
department would actually front rental units, office space? At first I went to the
County of Housing, and fortunately Administrator Susan Akiyama was willing to
go above and beyond and work with me to make that happen, so that was the
reason why I was able to even attemptto actually, successfully fund this
overhead cost. So, I will definitely work with you and if you want to add in more
resource for this service.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you, Council Member Eagan. Any other
discussion? Seeing or hearing none, on Bill 73, all those in favor say "aye."
The motion to pass Bill 73 on first reading was carried
by the following voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Eagan,
Onishi, Paleka, and Acting Chair Poindexter — 7.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Members Kanuha and Wille — 2.
Excused: None.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Moving on to Second and Final Reading.
Bill 64, Mr. Clerk.
The Chair directed the Council to proceed to the next order of the business,
Order of the Day (Second or Final Reading).
AMENDS ORDINANCE NO. 15-58, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS AND FINANCING THEREOF FOR THE
FISCAL YEAR JULY 1, 2015, TO JUNE 30, 2016
Adds the Public Works Mamalahoa Highway Widening, Mud Lane to Mand
Road — Federal ($640,000), County ($142,000), and State ($18,000) project, for
a total of $800,000, to the Capital Budget. Funds for the project shall be
provided from Federal Grants Receivable ($640,000); General Obligation
Bonds, Capital Projects Fund — Fund Balance and/or Other Sources ($142,000);
and State Capital Improvement Funds ($18,000). Funds would be used to pay
for consultant design services.
Reference: Comm. 367
Intr. by: Ms. Eoff
First Reading: July 24, 2015
Note: Requires 2/3 vote of the entire
membership to amend, pursuant to
Section 10-6(e), Hawai`i County Charter
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Vote on Bill 64: Ms. Eoff moved to pass Bill 64 on second and final reading.
(Adopted) Seconded by Ms. David and carried by the following voice
vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Eagan,
Onishi, Paleka, and Acting Chair Poindexter — 7.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Members Kanuha and Wille — 2.
Excused: None.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Bill 64 passes. Bill 65, Mr. Clerk.
Bill 65: AMENDS ORDINANCE NO. 15-57, AS AMENDED, THE OPERATING
BUDGET FOR THE COUNTY OF HAWAII FOR THE FISCAL YEAR
ENDING JUNE 30, 2016
Appropriates revenues in the State Grants — Little Fire Ant (LFA) Control —
Department of Agriculture account ($90,000); and appropriates the same to the
LFA Control — Department of Agriculture account. Funds would be used to
purchase equipment and supplies.
Reference: Comm. 368
Intr. by: Ms. Eoff
First Reading: July 24, 2015
Motion to Approve: Ms. Eoff moved to pass Bill 65 on second and final reading.
Seconded by Ms. David.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Any discussion? Okay, Council Member
Chung.
MR. CHUNG: Yeah, thank you. You know, I wanted to congratulate Mr. Onishi.
I don't know if the public knows, but Mr. Onishi was the person who actually
secured this grant from the Department of Agriculture and talking with
Scott Enright, so I wanted to recognize him for his efforts. I know he spends a lot
of time over there in Honolulu trying to get things for us. Thank you very much.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Council Member Eagan.
MR. IL,AGAN: Thank you, Madam Chair. I know you have heard this many
times, but I also want to congratulate you because you've been very great at this,
and I just wanted to recognize you again.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Council Member Eoff.
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MS. EOFF: I, too, wanted to thank Mr. Onishi. This fire ant is a very serious
problem for threatening our island.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Paleka.
MR. PALEKA: Yeah, I just wanted to also echo, thank you, Fresh, for securing
the funds. And, hopefully, we can work on funding for our Ohia trees.
MR. ONISHL We'll try.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay. Any other discussion? Okay, seeing or
hearing none, all those in favor of Bill 65 say "aye."
Vote on Bill 65: The motion to pass Bill 65 on second and final reading was
(Adopted) carried by the following voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Eagan,
Onishi, Paleka, and Acting Chair Poindexter — 7.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Members Kanuha and Wille — 2.
Excused: None.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Bill passes. Bill 66. Mr. Clerk.
Bill 66: AMENDS ORDINANCE NO. 15-57, AS AMENDED, THE OPERATING
BUDGET FOR THE COUNTY OF HAWAII FOR THE FISCAL YEAR
ENDING JUNE 30, 2016
Appropriates revenues in the Federal Grants — Department of Health (DOH)
Complete Streets account ($7,500); and appropriates the same to the DOH
Complete Streets — Federal account. Funds would be used for Complete Streets
training to help local jurisdictions design, build, and operate streets that enable
safe access for all users.
Reference: Comm. 369
Intr. by: Ms. Eoff
First Reading: July 24, 2015
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Vote on Bill 66
(Adopted)
August 5, 2015
Ms. Eoff moved to pass Bill 66 on second and final reading.
Seconded by Mr. Paleka and carried by the following
voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Eagan,
Onishi, Paleka, and Acting Chair Poindexter — 7.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Members Kanuha and Wille — 2.
Excused: None.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Bill 67, Mr. Clerk.
Bill 67: AMENDS ORDINANCE NO. 15-57, AS AMENDED, THE OPERATING
BUDGET FOR THE COUNTY OF HAWAII FOR THE FISCAL YEAR
ENDING JUNE 30, 2016
Appropriates revenues in the Federal Grants — Improve Forensic Services
account ($3,000); and appropriates the same to the Improve Forensic Services
account. Funds would be used to pay for training for laboratory personnel,
supplies, and equipment.
Vote on Bill 67
(Adopted)
Reference: Comm. 370
Intr. by: Ms. Eoff
First Reading: July 24, 2015
Ms. Eoff moved to pass Bill 67 on second and final reading.
Seconded by Ms. David and carried by the following
voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Eagan,
Onishi, Paleka, and Acting Chair Poindexter — 7.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Members Kanuha and Wille — 2.
Excused: None.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Bill 68, Mr. Clerk.
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Bill 68: AMENDS ORDINANCE NO. 15-57, AS AMENDED, THE OPERATING
BUDGET FOR THE COUNTY OF HAWAII FOR THE FISCAL YEAR
ENDING JUNE 30. 2016
Appropriates revenues in the Federal Grants – Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA) Alternate Projects – (Iselle) account ($122,710.05); and
appropriates the same to the FEMA Alternate Projects – (Iselle) account. Funds
would be used to pay for expenditures incurred during Tropical Storm Iselle.
Reference: Comm. 371
Intr. by: Ms. Eoff
First Reading: July 24, 2015
Motion to Approve: Ms. Eoff moved to pass Bill 68 on second and final
reading. Seconded by Mr. Paleka.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Any discussion?
MS. EOFF: As you all know, this is a reimbursement and I'm glad we're seeing
this back into the budget. And thank you, everybody, who were involved in
working out the details for this FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
money.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay, Council Member Paleka.
MR. PALEKA: Yeah, I just like to echo my colleague, Council Member Eoff's
sentiment about the hard work, our Administration, Public Works, and all our
County employees had done for getting that accomplished, but thanks again for
getting this reimbursement from FEMA. And, just hope for your support.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay, thank you. Council Member Eagan.
MR. IL,AGAN: Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess there's no one here from
Finance—but I just wanted toI know you're out there someplace. But I just
want to say thank you for your hard work. Because I know this may look like it's
just all forI'm not even actually too sure, but I believe this—the process of
actually acquiring this funding was back and forth with FEMA, and it was a
constant monitoring on top of everything else. With their regular responsibility
and other issues that they had to do, this was something that they had to do. And
it's not their regular job responsibility that they had to take care of the
reimbursement, but because of them doing that, we got reimbursed quite a large
amount, and 75 percent of the expenditures that were made, regarding Iselle. So I
just want to really thank the Finance Department. Especially through Deanna
Sako leadership there, and all the hard working employees, county employees that
worked on this in the Finance Department, thank you.
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Vote on Bill 68
(Adopted)
August 5, 2015
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Any other discussion? Seeing or
hearing none, Bill 68, all those in favor say "aye."
The motion to pass Bill 68 on second and final reading was
carried by the following voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Eagan,
Onishi, Paleka, and Acting Chair Poindexter — 7.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Members Kanuha and Wille — 2.
Excused: None.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Bill 70. Mr. Clerk.
Bill 70: AMENDS ORDINANCE NO. 15-58, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS AND FINANCING THEREOF FOR THE FISCAL
YEAR JULY 1, 2015, TO JUNE 30, 2016
Adds the Land Acquisition project for $1 million to the Capital Budget. Funds
for the project shall be provided from General Obligation Bonds, Capital Projects
Fund — Fund Balance and/or Other Sources. Funds would be used to purchase
real property to resolve an inadvertent approval of a consolidation and
subdivision application by the Planning Department that occurred without first
obtaining a Conservation District Use Permit from the Department of Land and
Natural Resources.
Reference: Comm. 373
Intr. by: Ms. Eoff
First Reading: July 24, 2015
Note: Requires 2/3 vote of the entire
membership to amend, pursuant to
Section 10-6(e), Hawai`i County Charter
Motion to Approve: Ms. Eoff moved to pass Bill 70 on second and final
reading. Seconded by Mr. Paleka.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Is there any discussion? Council Member
Chung.
MR. CHUNG: Thank you. Bill, can you please come up?
(Note: At this time, Assistant Corporation Counsel William Brilhante
came forward to address the members of the Council.)
MR. CHUNG: I'm not going to take up too much of your time. You know, we
had a very proactive discussion. I think it was in Executive Session last time.
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You know, I just wanted to state for the record, I've been looking over the Land
Use laws, both state and county, and I'm not 100 percent convinced that we've
exhausted all of our options, okay. I'm still going to support this today because it
gives you guys certain wiggle room, yeah, to do things. But I just wanted to let
you know that; perhaps maybe I'll come and talk to you about exploring some
other possible options in resolving this. And that's all, I mean—because we have
time, right?
MR. BRIL,HANTE: Yes.
MR. CHUNG: And you're the expert. I'm just going throw some things. But we
can talk about this later.
MR. BRIL,HANTE: Good morning, Council Chair, Council Members.
William Brilhante, Assistant Corporation Counsel. You know, I appreciate that
coming from you, Councilman Chung, and I'll be happy to meet with you
anytime to discuss this matter. So, we can touch base after.
MR. CHUNG: Sure. Thanks, Bill. Thank you very much.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Any other discussion? Okay, seeing or hearing
none, Bill 70, all those in favor say "aye."
Vote on Bill 70: The motion to pass Bill 70 on second and final reading was
(Adopted) carried by the following voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Eagan,
Onishi, Paleka, and Acting Chair Poindexter – 7.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Members Kanuha and Wille – 2.
Excused: None.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Bill passes. Council Member Paleka.
MR. PALEKA: Yeah, I just wanted to make a motion to suspend Council Rule
15 for all of our contingency relief resolutions filed for this day, August 5, 2015.
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Vote on Motion to
Suspend Council Rules
(Approved)
Mr. Paleka moved to suspend Council Rule 15 to waive
the 5 -day day hold for reconsideration. Seconded by
Mr. Onishi and carried by the following voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Eagan,
Onishi, Paleka, and Acting Chair Poindexter – 7.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Members Kanuha and Wille – 2.
Excused: None.
August 5, 2015
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Motion passes. Now we go to Referrals for
Executive Session. Mr. Clerk, do we read all of this in and then, I guess—
MR. MAEDA: Make the motion for Executive Session.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Yes, okay. Thank you.
REPORTS: The Chair directed the Council to proceed to the next order of business, Reports.
(There were none.)
REFERRALS The Chair directed the Council to proceed to the next order of business, Referrals
FOR EXECUTIVE for Executive Session.
SESSION:
Comm. 379: REBEKAH TAYLOR-FAILOR VS. COUNTY OF HAWAII;
CIVIL NO. 15-00070 DKW-KSC
From Deputy Corporation Counsel Jennifer D. K. Ng, dated July 15, 2015,
requesting an attorney-client confidential discussion to consult with the Council
a lawsuit filed on March 9, 2015, alleging that the County violates the
constitutional rights of prospective employees.
Comm. 403: BRENDA J. FORD VS. BOBBY JEAN LEITHEAD-TODD;
S.P. NO. 13-1-52K
From Deputy Corporation Counsel Section Chief Laureen L. Martin, dated
July 16, 2015, requesting an attorney-client confidential discussion to consult
with the Council the payment of fees to Robert Kim, Esq., for services rendered
in defending Environmental Management Director Bobby Jean Leithead-Todd
against a lawsuit.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Eoff.
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Vote on Motion to Enter
Into Executive Session:
August 5, 2015
Ms. Eoff moved to enter into Executive Session in order
to hold attorney-client privilege discussion regarding
Communications 379 and 403, as authorized by Section 92-5(a)(4)
of the Hawaii Revised Statutes. Seconded by Ms. David and
was carried by the following voice vote:
Ayes:
Council Members Chung, David, Eoff,
Onishi, Paleka, and Acting Chair Poindexter — 6.
Noes:
None.
Absent:
Council Members Ilagan, Kanuha and Wille — 3.
Excused:
None.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: We're now in Executive Session.
Recess: At 11:55 a.m., the Chair called for a recess.
Reconvene: The meeting reconvened at 1:21 p.m.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay, calling this meeting back to order. Now
we are on Communication 379. Yeah, can we just have you read it in again,
Mr. Clerk? Thank you.
Comm. 379: REBEKAH TAYLOR-FAILOR VS. COUNTY OF HAWAII;
CIVIL NO. 15-00070 DKW-KSC
From Deputy Corporation Counsel Jennifer D. K. Ng, dated July 15, 2015,
requesting an attorney-client confidential discussion to consult with the Council
a lawsuit filed on March 9, 2015, alleging that the County violates the
constitutional rights of prospective employees.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Can I have a motion to file Communication 379
and except the recommendations of Corporation Counsel?
Vote on Motion to Concur
(Approved)
Ms. David moved to concur with the recommendation of
Corporation Counsel regarding Comm. 379. Seconded by
Mr. Onishi and carried by the following voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Eagan,
Onishi, Paleka, and Acting Chair Poindexter — 7.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Members Kanuha and Wille — 2.
Excused: None.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Mr. Clerk, can you read in Communication 403?
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Comm. 403: BRENDA J. FORD VS. BOBBY JEAN LEITHEAD-TODD; S.P. NO. 13-1-52K
From Deputy Corporation Counsel Section Chief Laureen L. Martin, dated
July 16, 2015, requesting an attorney-client confidential discussion to consult
with the Council the payment of fees to Robert Kim, Esq., for services rendered
in defending Environmental Management Director Bobby Jean Leithead-Todd
against a lawsuit.
Motion to Concur: Mr. Paleka moved to concur with the recommendation of
Corporation Counsel regarding Comm. 403. Seconded by
Ms. David.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Is there any discussion? Council Member
Onishi.
MR. ONISHL You know, I guess for the public's notice or information—and then
also, right now, we being live stream so people wouldn't really know what the
amount is, right?
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: They know the amount because of—it's a
public
MR. ONISHL Yeah. But then people watching now, they might not have it in
front of them.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Oh, yes.
MR. ONISHL Right. So I just wanted to kind of mention what the amount is that
we're going to be just wanted to mention that. Because this is what we're going
to be approving, right? So, like what was it? The $47,000, right, in expenses?
Okay, thank you.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Any?
MR. ONISHL Oh, I'm sorry. Legal Fees.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Legal Fees, yeah.
MR. ONISHL And cost.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Yeah. Thank you. Okay, any other discussion?
Seeing none, all those in favor say "aye."
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Vote on Motion to Concur: The motion to concur with the recommendation of
(Approved) Corporation Counsel regarding Comm. 403 was carried by
the following voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Ilagan,
Onishi, Paleka, and Acting Chair Poindexter— 7
Noes: None.
Absent Council Members Kanuha and Wille -2.
Excused: None.
OTHER The Chair directed the Council to proceed to the next order of business, Other
BUSINESS: Business.
(There was none.)
ANNOUNCE- The Chair directed the Council to proceed to the next order of business,
MENTS: Announcements.
(There were none.)
ACTING CHR. POW DEXTER: I think we are all done with the business. May I
have a motion to adjourn, please?
ADJOURN- There being no other business, at 124 p.m., Mr. Paleka moved to adjourn
MENT: the meeting. Seconded by Ms. David and carried by the following voice vote:
Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, (lagan,
Onishi, Paleka, and Acting Chair Poindexter— 7.
Noes: None.
Absent: Council Members Kanuha and Wille -2.
Excused: None.
ACTING CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay, meeting is adjourned.
Council Approval:_. SEP 07 2015
COUN CLERK
SM/na/rk
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