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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMIN COUNCIL 2018-10-03 2016-2018 Hawaii County Council 501h Session Hawaii County Building 25 Aupuni Street Hilo, Hawaii October 3, 2018 INVOCATION: Pastor Mark Zier of Christ Lutheran Church gave the morning's invocation. CALL TO The regular meeting of the Hawaii County Council was called to order at ORDER: 9:06 a.m., in the Council Chambers, Hilo, by Ms. Valerie T. Poindexter, Chair. ROLL CALL: Present: Ms. Valerie T. Poindexter, Chair Ms. Karen Eoff, Vice Chair Mr. Aaron S. Y. Chung, Member Ms. Maile Medeiros David, Member Mr. Dru Mamo Kanuha, Member Ms. Susan L. K. Lee Loy, Member Ms. Eileen O'Hara, Member (came in later) Mr. Herbert M. "Tim" Richards, III, Member Absent & Excused: Ms. Jennifer Ruggles, Member PLEDGE OF The Chair directed the Council to the next order of business, Pledge of Allegiance. ALLEGIANCE: (At this time, Mr. Richards led the Council in the Pledge of Allegiance.) PETITIONS, The Chair directed the Council to proceed to the next order of business, Petitions, MEMORIALS, Memorials, Certificates of Merit, and Expressions of Condolence. CERTIFICATES OF MERIT, AND (There were none.) EXPRESSIONS OF CONDOLENCE: STATEMENTS The Chair directed the Council to proceed to the next order of business, Statements FROM THE from the Public on Agenda Items. PUBLIC ON AGENDA ITEMS: The following individuals registered to speak and came forward when called by the Chair: Curtis Tyler: Bill 187 (Comm. 1061), in support. Keone Kalawe: Bill 186 (Comm. 1059), comment. Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 Debbie P. Ellazar: Bill 186 (Comm. 1059), comment. Rene Siracusa: Bill 182 (Comm. 1034), in support. Annie (Hiller) Valentin: Res. 696-18 (Comm. 1081), in support. (representing Project Vision Hawaii) Don Besse: Res. 689-18 (Comm. 1071), in support. (representing USA Pickleball Association) Gale K. Perez: Bill 186 (Comm. 1059), comment. Clarence K. Perez: Bill 186 (Comm. 1059), comment. Patricia Breault: Res. 689-18 (Comm. 1071), in support. (representing Friends of the Park) Dawn Esser: Res. 689-18 (Comm. 1071), comment. (representing Friends of the Park) Abolghassem Abraham Bill 184 (Comm. 1038), comment; Sadegh: Bill 185 (Comm. 1040), comment; Bill 186 (Comm. 1059), comment; Bill 195 (Comm. 1090), comment; and Bill 197 (Comm. 1092), comment. Theodora Akau-Gaspar: Res. 686-18 (Comm. 1068), comment. D'Angelo McIntyre: Bill 194 (Comm. 1089), comment. Deb Lewis: Res. 684-18 (Comm. 1066), in support; and (representing the Hawaii Res. 685-18 (Comm. 1067), in support. Island Women's Leadership Forum and the Hawaii Island Veterans Day Parade) Robert M. Yamada: Bill 182 (Comm. 1034), in support. Kale Gumapac: Res. 683-18 (Comm. 1065), comment; (representing Aha Kanaka Res. 684-18 (Comm. 1066), comment; Moku O Keawe) Bill 182 (Comm. 1034), comment; and Bill 186 (Comm. 1059, comment. Gene Tamashiro: Bill 194 (Comm. 1089), comment. Page 2 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 Recess: At 10:01 a.m., the Chair called for a recess. Reconvene: The meeting reconvened at 10:17 a.m. APPROVAL The Chair directed the Council to proceed to the next order of business, Approval OF MINUTES: of Minutes. Vote on Approval Mr. Richards moved to approve the minutes of of Minutes: September 21, 2016. Seconded by Ms. David and carried (Approved) by the following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter—8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles — 1. Excused: None. Vote on Approval Mr. Richards moved to approve the minutes of of Minutes: September 5, 2018. Seconded by Ms. Eoff and carried by (Approved) the following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter—8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles — 1. Excused: None. COMMUNI- The Chair directed the Council to proceed to the next order of business, CATIONS: Communications. (There were none.) Change Order As directed by the Chair and with no objection from the Council Members, the of Business: following items were taken out of order: Page 3 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 Res. 696-18: TRANSFERS/APPROPRIATES AN APPROPRIATION OUT AND FROM A DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT AND CREDITS SAME TO A DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT TO PROVIDE A GRANT TO PROJECT VISION HAWAII TO PURCHASE A MOBILE HYGIENE UNIT TO BE USED AT DISASTER RELIEF LOCATIONS AND TRANSITIONAL MICRO-HOUSING UNITS Transfers $2,000 from the Clerk-Council Services —Contingency Relief account (Council District 6); and credits to the Department of Parks and Recreation, Administration Other Current Expenses account. Reference: Comm. 1081 Intr. by: Ms. David Motion to Approve: Ms. David moved to adopt Res. 696-18. Seconded by Ms. Eoff. CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member David. MS. DAVID: Thank you, Chair. I'd like to thank Ms. Valentin for her testimony this morning. This is a really great program for our kids, and I really want to thank Project Vision for doing this. I've always supported it, and I'd like to thank Parks and Rec. also, the department, for their collaborative efforts with your services. I ask my Council Members for their support. Mahalo. CHR. POINDEXTER: Any other discussion? Seeing or hearing none, all those in favor say "aye." Vote on Res. 696-18: The motion to adopt Res. 696-18 was carried by the (Adopted) following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter—8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles — 1. Excused: None. CHR. POINDEXTER: Resolution 696-18 is adopted. Page 4 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 Res. 697-18: TRANSFERS/APPROPRIATES AN APPROPRIATION OUT AND FROM A DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT AND CREDITS SAME TO A DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT TO PROVIDE A GRANT TO PROJECT VISION HAWAII TO PURCHASE A MOBILE HYGIENE UNIT TO BE USED AT DISASTER RELIEF LOCATIONS AND HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS Transfers $3,000 from the Clerk-Council Services —Contingency Relief account (Council District 8); and credits to the Department of Parks and Recreation, Administration Other Current Expenses account. Reference: Comm. 1082 Intr. by: Ms. Eoff Motion to Approve: Ms. Eoff moved to adopt Res. 697-18. Seconded by Ms. David. CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Eoff MS. EOFF: Just to add to what Ms. David had said, I'm happy to support this project. I think it will provide a model for us to be able to provide temporary shelters and housing because, without hygiene units, there's really no way to keep people safe. These provide a really high-end type of mobile portable toilets and showers for people. So, I think if this works and we can find ways to fund these units, we can expand our reach when we think about temporary and transitional housing as well. So, thank you, folks, for being here today. Keep us informed in how we can continue to help. CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Council Member Richards. MR. RICHARDS: Just a quick question directed to the council woman or maybe to the crowd. This is not just for what we've been through but these will be reusable going forward? MS. EOFF: Mhm. MR. RICHARDS: Okay. I yield, thanks. CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Any other discussion? Seeing or hearing none, all those in favor say "aye." Page 5 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 Vote on Res. 697-18: The motion to adopt Res. 697-18 was carried by the (Adopted) following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter—8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles — 1. Excused: None. CHR. POINDEXTER: Resolution 697-18 is adopted. Bill 193: AMENDS ORDINANCE NO. 18-68, AS AMENDED, THE OPERATING BUDGET FOR THE COUNTY OF HAWAII FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2019 Increases revenues in the Federal Grants —Hawai`i County Police Department (HCPD) Data Grant account ($40,000); and appropriates the same to the HCPD Data Grant account for a total appropriation of$56,520. Funds would be used to purchase ten mobile data terminal Toughbook computers. Reference: Comm. 1088 Intr. by: Ms. David (B/R) Waived: FC Motion to Approve: Ms. David moved to pass Bill 193 on first reading. Seconded by Mr. Richards. CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member David. MS. DAVID: Yes, I believe we have Officer Mahuna or, oh. Could you please come to the table? (Note: At this time, Traffic Services Program Manager Torey Keltner of the Police Department came forward to address the members of the Council.) MS. DAVID: Mahalo. Please identify yourself for the record and then give us a brief description of the purpose. MR. KELTNER: Good afternoon, I guess, or good morning. My name is Torey Keltner. I'm the Program Manager for Traffic Services at the Hawaii Police Department. I've recently been assigned and become the new manager, I guess, of that section of the Police Department, and I'm here to answer any questions or speak to anything on Bill 193. Page 6 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 MS. DAVID: Thank you. Actually, I think this is a great grant for the purpose that we're doing it for. So, if anyone else has any questions, I'll yield. CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay, any other questions? Council Member Richards. MR. RICHARDS: So,just curious. Are these going to be ride-alongs with the officers, these computers? Or what's the plan with these? MR. KELTNER: Currently, we have mobile data terminals in many of the patrol cars, and officers island-wide do have some. Not all officers have them. These newer ones will actually be distributed to the traffic enforcement units because it's coming from traffic grant funds. So, it'll be distributed to them and then the older units that they have will be redistributed to other officers. MR. RICHARDS: Okay. So actually, expanding overall department capability but these specifically go to the traffic side? MR. KELTNER: Yes, sir. MR. RICHARDS: All right, good. Thank you. I yield. CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Any other discussion? Council Member Lee Loy. MS. LEE LOY: Thank you. Thank you for being here. What's the lifespans of these types of mobile books, and are we going to be looking at needing to replace them four years, five years down the road? MR. KELTNER: The company that we are hoping to get these from is Panasonic Toughbooks. They're the ones that make them and distribute them nationally more than anyone that I'm aware of. With any technology, it does have a lifespan. The ones we currently have are pretty old, and they've held up. Obviously, we would need to look at fixing and getting new ones. I don't know an exact timespan on these; more than five years for certain it would be. MS. LEE LOY: Then, would there be other grant opportunities for replacement of the old ones? MR. KELTNER: Currently researching that. MS. LEE LOY: Yeah, hopefully. This might be a little off topic, but does this integrate into the Spelman Program that you guys are trying to transfer information over to? Page 7 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 MR. KELTNER: Yes, ma'am. And that was kind of the idea, was to have these new technologies, updated technologies that would help with the efficiency of some of the things that are done so the officers can do a better job and be involved a little bit more. MS. LEE LOY: Thank you. MR. KELTNER: Thanks. MS. LEE LOY: I yield. CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Lieutenant Mahuna, if you want to come and have a seat at the table as well, that would be wonderful now that you are both here to present on these bills. So, are there any other questions? All those in favor, say "aye." Vote on Bill 193: The motion to pass Bill 193 on first reading was carried by (Approved) the following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter—8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles — 1. Excused: None. CHR. POINDEXTER: Bill 193 moves forward to second reading. Bill 194: AMENDS ORDINANCE NO. 18-68, AS AMENDED, THE OPERATING BUDGET FOR THE COUNTY OF HAWAII FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2019 Increases revenues in the Federal Grants —Distracted Driving Project account ($4,200); and appropriates the same to the Distracted Driving Project account for a total appropriation of$62,200. Funds would be used to increase the number of citations issued for driving while operating an electronic mobile device. Reference: Comm. 1089 Intr. by: Ms. David (B/R) Waived: FC Motion to Approve: Ms. David moved to pass Bill 194 on first reading. Seconded by Mr. Richards. CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member David. Page 8 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 MS. DAVID: Yes, thank you, Lieutenant Mahuna, for being here. Either you or Mr. Keltner, could you give us a brief—driving citations for using electronic devices—what is this money going to be used for? (Note: At this time, Traffic Services Program Manager Torey Keltner of the Police Department came forward to address the members of the Council.) MR. KELTNER: Councilwoman David, that probably would fall to me again. What we have are funds that we've wanted to increase to provide more opportunities for the officers to be out and conduct special projects focusing on the distracted driving, which we know nationally, and unfortunately locally, it's been an issue. If we can bring the numbers of people down that are actually doing that, we can also bring down major injuries and fatalities and accidents. So, the goal is to save lives and not just saying that it's a reality. That is a place that has been identified that we can address and hopefully have officers out there to make sure that people understand that. So, the goal is obviously citations but also we do have campaigns that we're going to present so the people gets an educational opportunity backed up with the visual of officers. And then, unfortunately, people will get citations that will be accountable for what they've done. MS. DAVID: I see. So, this is to increase that effort. MR. KELTNER: Yes, ma'am. MS. DAVID: All right, great. Thank you very much. I yield. CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay, any other questions, concerns? Council Member Lee Loy. MS. LEE LOY: Thank you. I notice the total grant amount is for 62,000, going from period October 1, 2018, to September 30, 2019. How is that kind of spread out over that 12 months? `Cause it, in my head, doesn't seem like it'll go very far for a 12-month program. MR. KELTNER: Right. As I've come into this position, I actually break things down and break it into districts and the proficiency of the districts and how they're doing. So, I keep quarterly totals and look at how they're using the funds to do that. So, it's, you know, very attract very much for what the performance and the issues that are at hand in those areas. So, we spread it out amongst the districts and then to the commanders of the districts who then decide where the programs are going to be and times. MS. LEE LOY: Thank you, I yield. CHR. POINDEXTER: Any other questions? Seeing or hearing none, all those in favor say "aye." Page 9 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 Vote on Bill 194: The motion to pass Bill 194 on first reading was carried by (Approved) the following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter—8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles — 1. Excused: None. CHR. POINDEXTER: Bill 194 moves to second reading. Bill 195: AMENDS ORDINANCE NO. 18-68, AS AMENDED, THE OPERATING BUDGET FOR THE COUNTY OF HAWAII FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2019 Increases revenues in the Federal Grants —Hawai`i County Police Department (HCPD) Traffic Investigation Program account ($34,340); and appropriates the same to the HCPD Traffic Investigation Program account for a total appropriation of$105,840. Funds would be used to increase the number of officers trained in advanced traffic accident reconstruction and other traffic-crash related courses. Reference: Comm. 1090 Intr. by: Ms. David (B/R) Waived: FC Motion to Approve: Ms. David moved to pass Bill 195 on first reading. Seconded by Ms. Lee Loy. CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member David. MS. DAVID: Yes, thank you. Mr. Keltner, I'm not sure if this is probably yours, too. (Note: At this time, Traffic Services Program Manager Torey Keltner of the Police Department came forward to address the members of the Council.) MR. KELTNER: Yes, ma'am. MS. DAVID: So, this is basically to traffic accident investigations and that sort of thing. Has there been a real increase in the investigations in comparison to last year and this year, and that's why the increase is necessary? Page 10 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 MR. KELTNER: Well, what we're looking at is these courses that are here are going to, again, the traffic enforcement units specifically. We will get, hopefully, a couple other officers that will be involved as well. But these are more advanced investigative classes that they'll go to on Oahu. It's put on by a particular company that's recognized nationally that provides us the kind of training where they can do more advanced investigations into major accidents and fatalities. So, with the transition of traffic enforcement units, their timespan is now moving out. We have to get new officers in there and new supervisors. We have to provide them with adequate training to meet the needs of the community in what the department is trying to do. So, that's what these funds are for. MS. DAVID: Right. Thank you very much. I yield. CHR. POINDEXTER: Any other questions? Council Member Lee Loy. MS. LEE LOY: Thank you. So, your traffic enforcement unit, your TEU unit, these are for training classes off-island. Has there been any look at bringing some of the trainers here instead to have them train the officers here? MR. KELTNER: It has and we've looked at that. And down the road, that would be a very good idea. Honolulu PD (Police Department) actually organizes it and brings all the islands together and does them there at the time. It's definitely something to look at down the road to bring to the Big Island. MS. LEE LOY: And then you mentioned it's for our TEU(Traffic Enforcement Unit) unit officers. Will some of that filter down into our patrol? MR. KELTNER: Yes. For sure it will. One of the requirements in the TEU and in the grant funding is that they provide training back to the officers that are on patrol. So, that's part of that advanced training. They'll be able to bring that back so that an officer in an area where they can use those skills to provide a good investigation. MS. LEE LOY: I just really want to thank you for working so hard to go get these grants and grab that kind of money to make that available for our officers. I really appreciate that. So, thank you. MR. KELTNER: Thank you, ma'am. CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Any other discussion? Seeing or hearing none, all those in favor say "aye." Page 11 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 Vote on Bill 195: The motion to pass Bill 195 on first reading was carried by (Approved) the following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter—8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles — 1. Excused: None. CHR. POINDEXTER: Bill 195 moves to second reading. Bill 196: AMENDS ORDINANCE NO. 18-68, AS AMENDED, THE OPERATING BUDGET FOR THE COUNTY OF HAWAII FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2019 Increases revenues in the Federal Grants —Occupant Protection Program account ($11,000); and appropriates the same to the Occupant Protection Program account for a total appropriation of$90,000. Funds would be used to increase the number of seatbelt and child restraint citations issued and to purchase 35 tint meters and a canopy tent. Reference: Comm. 1091 Intr. by: Ms. David (B/R) Waived: FC Motion to Approve: Ms. David moved to pass Bill 196 on first reading. Seconded by Mr. Richards. CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member David. MS. DAVID: Thank you. This is with the others. Mr. Keltner, this was requested to be waived from the Finance Committee. So, if you could just give a brief explanation of what these funds are going to be used for. (Note: At this time, Traffic Services Program Manager Torey Keltner of the Police Department came forward to address the members of the Council.) MR. KELTNER: Thank you, ma'am. MS. DAVID: And actually, what is a tint meter? Page 12 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 MR. KELTNER: I'll start out with what the grant is. The seatbelt grant actually is where officers go out and establish areas where they're going to watch for seatbelt violations of citizens that are driving. That also includes child safety seats that are in there. So,part of the funding is to establish those extra duty shifts and projects that they're out doing. As you see, the tint meters are in there. The tint meters are to be used on the windows of vehicles that appear to be in violation of the tint level. The reason for that is it obstructs the person's view to the outside if it's past a certain tint level, but it also makes it so that the law enforcement officers can see inside the vehicles as well to make sure the people are obeying laws with seatbelts and, obviously, electronic devices and things like that. So, that is what the money is going to be used for so that they can effectively ID the ones that are not legally traveling with that tinted stuff on their windows. And then the canopy tent that's in there, another thing that we do is an educational side of it. We have child passenger safety seat inspection stations that we do. So, we go out into the communities. Last week was in Ka`u and we had one down there. But we plan to have a lot more involvement in that. In the Fire Department and some of the volunteer locals, it's a pretty big organization. And we wanted to have an area that we can cover when it's raining heavily, that we can do that, have shade and rain protection so we can actually do these so people are comfortable when they show up to do them and they'd be more apt to actually go and do that. So, that's what the tenting is for. MS. DAVID: I see. Thank you. That tint meter, is it almost like a speed so as the car goes by, it will register if the tint is ? How does that work? MR. KELTNER: No, they actually have to use it on the vehicle. So, there'll be other MS. DAVID: You have to be stopped first, right? MR. KELTNER: Yes, ma'am. MS. DAVID: Okay. All right. I yield. Thank you. CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. I saw Council Member Chung's light on. No? Okay. Council Member O'Hara and then I'll go to Council Member Richards. MS. O'HARA: Just following up on the tint meter. Having had some recent experience standing on the side of the road trying to make contact with the people inside vehicles, there are a lot of vehicles out there with really heavy tint. Isn't that a safety requirement? When you get your safety check, don't the providers of the safety check have to ? Page 13 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 MR. KELTNER: Yes, I believe so. I don't have all the information, obviously, with the safety check. MS. O'HARA: `Cause I've never had anybody pull out a tint meter that I'm aware of when I've gotten a safety check. Maybe I'm just not aware that they're doing that. But isn't that the best place to kind of deal with the issue? MR. KELTNER: It would be speculation if I said, I don't know, it would be a good idea if they did. I don't know that. MS. O'HARA: Officer, do you have any experience in that? No? MR. KELTNER: So, safety check inspection stations will check tint. The vehicle has to be tinted also. If your vehicle has factory tint, the law does not require that it be checked. So, if you have a vehicle that's untinted, it's unlikely that they would have checked your vehicle tint. But, yes, safety check inspection stations are required to check it. It's part of the actual checklist. They also do take pictures of the vehicles now. Before, there used to be people that just passed the safety check. But now,photographs of the vehicle are required. So, to circumvent the law, what some people will do is they will remove the tint, get a safety check, and then put the tint back on. It doesn't seem like it's cost effective, but that is what people do. MS. O'HARA: Wow. Okay. Thank you. CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Council Member Richards. MR. RICHARDS: Thank you, Chair. It's great to have these programs and maybe I'm not asking the right person the question, but first of all on the child seat and the safety child restraint, is this to educate or to give citations towards? Because, I think a lot of the times we can solve problems if we work hard on educating warning before we cite. So, I pose that as a question. Do you have any insight on that? MR. KELTNER: Yeah, it's both. The tent, in particular, is for the educational side of that. There's no overtime funds or monies set aside for that particular part of it. It would be something on duty. The organization that I work with in there, a lot of them are volunteers that are going out and doing that. So, yeah, there's going to be a greater—we already have had it, but there's going to be a greater push for the educational side of it. And that's where we see the media releases that we have and the public service announcements. Hopefully, you've seen that we've done some new ones. Page 14 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 MR. RICHARDS: Having experience with putting in car seats, boy I tell you. It is challenging. MR. KELTNER: Councilman, I'll invite you to the next one we do. MR. RICHARDS: I've been on a steep learning curve but I got it on that one. Another question I have—I've got four-year-old twins so that's why I—the other question, it looks like safety equipment, tint meter. In my district, District 9, we've been borrowing a speed checking device, a radar checking that just records what's going by `cause we've had complaints, concerns on different roads. I was looking at using some of our district funds to get that. Could some of this funding—it's probably appropriated for this, but going forward, if we have some of those cameras available or instruments available to the different districts, I think it would really help the police because we have complaints that people are always speeding here. We put up some of these things, we find out that's actually not the case. Or we see the timing of when the concern is so it helps the police figure out when they need to be patrolling those areas a little bit more. I just offer that as a suggestion going forward `cause I'd like to get one for District 9 and give it to our police there. So, I just offer that as a suggestion. MR. KELTNER: Thank you. MR. RICHARDS: I yield. CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay, any other questions, concerns? Okay, seeing or hearing none, all those in favor of approving Bill 196 say "aye." Vote on Bill 196: The motion to pass Bill 196 on first reading was carried by (Approved) the following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter–8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles – 1. Excused: None. CHR. POINDEXTER: Bill 196 moves to second reading. Page 15 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 Bill 197: AMENDS ORDINANCE NO. 18-68, AS AMENDED, THE OPERATING BUDGET FOR THE COUNTY OF HAWAII FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2019 Increases revenues in the Federal Grants —High Intensity (HI) Impact Grant account ($126,624); and appropriates the same to the HI Impact Grant account for a total appropriation of$308,624. Funds would be used to combat the methamphetamine drug problem in Hawaii County by conducting sting operations and training police officers in the enforcement of these drug-related cases. Reference: Comm. 1092 Intr. by: Ms. David (B/R) Waived: FC Motion to Approve: Ms. David moved to pass Bill 197 on first reading. Seconded by Mr. Richards. CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member David. MS. DAVID: Thank you, Chair. Mr. Keltner, the last one. Could you just explain? Give us a brief (Note: At this time, Police Lieutenant Reed Mahuna, came forward to address the members of the Council.) LT. MAHUNA: This is me. MS. DAVID: Oh, Lieutenant, okay. Thank you. LT. MAHUNA: Council Member David, Madam Chair Woman, Vice Chair, thank you very much for your time. Basically, this money would be primarily used for training and the payment of overtime for drug investigations. Some of the funds are also used for confidential operations that we run to combat the drug problem on Hawaii Island. MS. DAVID: Thank you very much, and thank you for all you do with that grave issue we have going on. So, mahalo for coming. I yield. CHR. POINDEXTER: Any other questions? Council Member Chung. MR. CHUNG: Thank you. Officer Mahuna, this is an augmentation of some appropriation that we presently have, right? LT. MAHUNA: Yes, sir. Page 16 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 MR. CHUNG: So, if you can tell us, and of course we're all in support of this program, but do you guys have any results as to the efficacy of this program so far? I mean, maybe this fiscal or over the last several fiscal cycles? LT. MAHUNA: I don't have the numbers with me other than to say how we measure the effectiveness is in arrests and the amount of drugs that we seize per calendar and fiscal year. That's how we determine how effective we have been. Those are the milestones, so to speak, that we have to account for with this particular grant. MR. CHUNG: Okay. And so, in that regard, what kind of numbers LT. MAHUNA: In that regard, our numbers this particular calendar year are particularly in crystal methamphetamine. We've recovered a substantially higher amount of crystal methamphetamine this year than we have in the years prior. Crystal meth continues to be the prior drug epidemic on Hawaii Island. And that is the battle that we fight. And what we see here is that we've had a large increase of specifically large seizures. So, we've had an increased overall amount that we've brought in, but specifically, we have more significant large seizures of more significant drug organizations than just smaller dealers. And particularly dealers and users, that's not the focus of what we're trying to accomplish. We're trying to take down drug trafficking organizations that are on Hawaii Island. So, I think that we've been successful in that our—it's not only that our overall numbers are up, but our overall numbers of large seizures are significantly higher than they've been in previous years. MR. CHUNG: Terrific. Thank you and congratulations. And are you the person who writes these grants? LT. MAHUNA: So, our HITDA (High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas) funds are distributed a little differently. HITDA gets the funds and then they distribute the funds, these federal grant funds, to each island. So, we apply every year for a budget. We do a presentation and then we're allotted a certain amount. This particular grant is not directly applied for by our department. MR. CHUNG: Oh. But are two of you involved in grant writing, though? LT. MAHUNA: I'm involved in grant writing myself. MR. CHUNG: This might be getting off the topic, then, but a former colleague of ours, Greggor Eagan, has been coming to see all of us. He's concerned about ag thefts. Then, when I saw these sting operations, I was thinking maybe you guys can try to get some grant monies to conduct sting operations for ag thefts, too. It is getting off the topic, but I'm just Page 17 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 LT. MAHUNA: From my time as a lieutenant in the Puna district, ag theft is a big issue. It's a big problem, and it continues to be. Our particular grant funds in the vice section, which is where I'm currently assigned, there is no mechanism for me to get grant funds for those types of operations. However, anytime that we are able to create a drug nexus between ag theft and narcotics, if we are able to do that, we would be more than willing to support any type of operation that may come where we can make that nexus. And I'm sure they do exist, but ag theft is an extremely difficult crime to combat as I'm sure you guys are all well aware. MR. CHUNG: Is there a department or division within your department that we could talk to in that regard? I mean, not vice but some other ones? LT. MAHUNA: I don't know. I believe, though, that those types of ag thefts are dealt with by community policing and the individual district commanders. But I don't know of any specific department. MR. CHUNG: All right. Thank you very much again. CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Council Member Lee Loy. MS. LEE LOY: Thank you, Lieutenant Mahuna, for being here. This total grant amount, 308,000, you mentioned it's coming from HITDA. LT. MAHUNA: Yes. MS. LEE LOY: How is that money distributed? And I appreciate the measurables and deliverables that you guys had as far as data collection and the amount of methamphetamines that you folks are getting off the street. Does that help drive more opportunities to increase that grant funding? Share with me how we can get more money. LT. MAHUNA: I think that like anything else, any grant, it's results driven. Your funding in the future is by and large determined by how successful you've been. And I think that Hawaii Island, we've been very successful. With the resources that we have and what's available to us, I think both East Hawaii and West Hawaii has been very successful. How the HITDA budget is exactly made, I don't know. All I do know is that I apply for a budget; I do a presentation. And then they have a HITDA board. The board decides what funds are getting distributed. I can say that from my presentations that I've done with the HITDA board, they have been very receptive to our request for additional funds. We have been given additional funds, and I think that our performance has been, given our resources, our performance has been very good as far as amongst my peers in HITDA. Page 18 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 As far as how the money's distributed, it's distributed pretty much equally between West Hawaii and East Hawaii. So, this amount here is actually for the entire island. So, between East Hawaii vice and Area 2 vices, it's basically distributed evenly. MS. LEE LOY: Yeah, thank you, Lieutenant. That's really challenging. That's kind of the underbelly of our community that you guys are tackling head on. I will offer this, and I'm sure some of my other colleagues may even jump in, if at any opportunity when you are proposing to write for these grants, I would be more than happy to provide a letter of support so that we can start capturing more of these monies to help our communities and so much of the underbelly with the drugs in our community. But thank you again for doing all of this work. I really appreciate your time here today. LT. MAHUNA: Thank you, Council Member. I appreciate that. CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Richards. MR. RICHARDS: Thank you, Chair, and thanks, Lieutenant. I was listening to the conversation with Councilman Chung concerning the ag theft, and that's something near and dear to my heart as far as going after it. The prosecuting attorney's office has a full-time ag theft investigator. The relationship I assume between police and the prosecuting attorney is very tight. Is this expanding with the ag theft concerns as Councilwoman Lee Loy is pointing out and with our investigator? Because, for so long, ag theft was kind of pushed to the side since it was relatively low and thereby usually a misdemeanor. But now, it's been bumped up to felony. So, how is that going and how can we capitalize on what you're trying to do, springboard off with Councilwoman Lee Loy has said, and really make a stand on that? Because, we're not going to expand our agriculture if we don't pay attention to it. This sounds like one of the things we can help to help pay attention to it. LT. MAHUNA: As far as how the ag thefts are handled in the department, and I'm sure the relationship, like you said, the relationship with the prosecutor's office is extremely tight, extremely good, but I don't have information as to who exactly in our department is spearheading ag theft. That's not a department that I am involved in. MR. RICHARDS: Okay. I raise that as a concern because this is something that we as the County batted around for probably 20 years but have only recently gotten more serious about it by changing the designation and having a full-time investigator. So, thank you, I yield. Page 19 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 LT. MAHUNA: Thank you. CHR. POINDEXTER: Any other discussion? Seeing or hearing none, all those in favor say "aye." Vote on Bill 197: The motion to pass Bill 197 on first reading was carried by (Approved) the following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter—8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles — 1. Excused: None. LT. MAHUNA: Thank you so much. CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Bill 197 moves to second reading. Bill 182: AMENDS CHAPTER 36, ARTICLE 1, ARTICLE 4, AND ARTICLE 5, OF THE HAWAII COUNTY CODE 1983 (2016 EDITION, AS AMENDED), RELATING TO MAXIMUM COUNCIL DISTRICT DEVIATION IN ANY REDISTRICTING PLAN Amends Section 36-6 and Section 36-8 by increasing the maximum council district deviation from 4.99 percent to 5.99 percent for any proposed Council District, and repeals Section 36-9, Alternate Plan Requirements. Reference: Comm. 1034 Intr. by: Ms. O'Hara First Reading: September 19, 2018 Motion to Approve: Ms. O'Hara moved to pass Bill 182 on second and final reading. Seconded by Mr. Kanuha. CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member O'Hara. MS. O'HARA: I think we've had good discussions on this in Committee and in its first read. If anyone does have any additional questions, Rene Siracusa is standing by in the Pahoa office. But I just ask for your support on this. Thank you. CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Any other discussion? Seeing or hearing none, all those in favor say "aye." Page 20 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 Vote on Bill 182: The motion to pass Bill 182 on second and final reading (Adopted) was carried by the following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter—8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles — 1. Excused: None. CHR. POINDEXTER: Bill 182 is adopted. Bill 187: PROVIDES FOR THE COST OF PUBLIC SEWER SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS IN"IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 20 —LONO KONA SUBDIVISION," DISTRICT OF NORTH KONA, COUNTY OF HAWAII, FIXES THE PORTION OF THE COST TO BE ASSESSED AGAINST BENEFITED ASSESSMENT UNITS, ADOPTS FINAL ASSESSMENT ROLL, IMPOSES ASSESSMENT LIEN AGAINST EACH ASSESSMENT UNIT ASSESSED ACCORDING TO THE ASSESSMENT, PROVIDES FOR PAYMENT OF ASSESSMENTS IN INSTALLMENTS, AND AUTHORIZES FURTHER ACTIONS BY THE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE Creates a special fund to be known as "Improvement District No. 20—Lono Kona Subdivision," into which the funds for the costs of the improvements and all money collected by the Director of Finance for assessments levied by this ordinance shall be placed (the total estimated cost of the authorized improvements in the Improvement District is $2,437,000). Reference: Comm. 1061 Intr. by: Ms. David (B/R) First Reading: September 19, 2018 Motion to Approve: Ms. David moved to pass Bill 187 on second and final reading. Seconded by Mr. Kanuha. CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member David. MS. DAVID: Yes, thank you. I believe we've discussed this. This is second and final reading. If we do have questions, I believe two gentlemen are here. But otherwise, I ask for your support. CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay. Council Member Kanuha. MR. KANUHA: Thank you, Madam Chair. Council, if you haven't heard of Lono Kona Subdivision, I'd like to let you know more about it. No, I'm just kidding. We've gone through this a long time, and I just wanted to thank the Page 21 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 department, Finance, the Mayor, the Administration, for really pushing this through. Thank you guys for staying on top of it. I know the community will really benefit from this. So thank you guys so much. CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay, thank you. Council Member Eoff MS. EOFF: Thank you. It was kind of good to hear from Curtis. It reminded me that he may have even been a part of this back when he was a councilman, because I know when Councilman Pilago first took office in 2003 or 04, we worked withMaile and I worked with Roy Takemoto on this same proposal. So I want to thank Councilman Kanuha forI think districts changed so when he came in it became part of his district. So I want to thank him for picking it up, and all of us have actually had a hand in this. So it feels good that it's finallyI think this is the last piece, and they can moved forward. Also,just kind of a plug for improvement districts, we haven't created that many on our island, but they were very—good opportunity to do an improvement into a specific district and tax only those people that are going to be befitting from it. Yet there's grants available and loans, so it really makes the big projects feasible. Although they are a lot of work. I don't think they always take as long as this one, but there's been a couple of water improvement districts that I'm aware of, and a business improvement district, and they seem to have a—maybe we're learning how to get them accomplished quicker now. But I think they're worth investigating when projects need to be done. So thank you, Deanna and everybody from Finance, and the Treasury, and everybody involved in this one. CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay, any other questions? No? Okay those in favor, say Ic aye. Vote on Bill 187: The motion to pass Bill 187 on second and final reading (Adopted) was carried by the following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter—8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles — 1. Excused: None. CHR. POINDEXTER: So if we could move to Bill 186. Page 22 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 Bill 186: AMENDS ORDINANCE NO. 18-68, AS AMENDED, THE OPERATING BUDGET FOR THE COUNTY OF HAWAII FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2019 Increases revenues in the Federal Grants —Housing Choice Voucher Program account ($170,000); and appropriates the same to the Voucher Rental Subsidies account for a total appropriation of$18,895,000. Funds would be used for the Housing Assistance Payment subsidies. Reference: Comm. 1059 Intr. by: Ms. David (B/R) Approve: FC-140 Motion to Approve: Ms. David moved to pass Bill 186 on first reading and adopt Finance Committee Report No. 140. Seconded by Mr. Kanuha. CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member David. MS. DAVID: Yes, I believe in Committee we had Mr. Gyotoku gave us a brief summary of the purpose of this, and if anyone has questions, I will yield. Other than that, thank you, Mr. Gyotoku. If you have anything else to add, you can feel free to do so. Otherwise, I'm going to ask my colleagues to support this. CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay, any questions or concerns? Hearing or seeing none, all those in favor say "aye." Vote on Bill 186: The motion to pass Bill 186 on first reading and adopt (Approved) Finance Committee Report No. 140 was carried by the following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter—8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles — 1. Excused: None. CHR. POINDEXTER: Bill 186 moves to second reading. Thank you for your patience. Okay, so I guess we can go to the top of the agenda, unless anyone has any suggestions for ones out of order. Oh, Bill 198? Okay. Page 23 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 Bill 198: AMENDS ORDINANCE NO. 18-68, AS AMENDED, THE OPERATING BUDGET FOR THE COUNTY OF HAWAII FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2019 Increases revenues in the Reimburse Debt Service–Department of Water Supply account ($201,422); and appropriates the same to the General Serial Bond Redemption–County account for a total appropriation of$28,857,753. Funds would be used to pay off the department's Happy Homes United States Department of Agriculture Loan No. 9. Reference: Comm. 1093 Intr. by: Ms. David (B/R) Waived: FC Motion to Approve: Ms. David moved to pass Bill 198 on first reading. Seconded by Mr. Kanuha. CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member David. MS. DAVID: Thank you. Director Sako, could you please come forward? (Note: At this time, Finance Director Deanna Sako came forward to address the members of the Council.) MS. DAVID: This wasa request for a waiver was made for this item. So Ms. Sako, could you please explain this? MS. SAKO: Yeah, good morning everyone. Deanna Sako, Director of Finance. This is actually a request on behalf of the Department of Water Supply. Frequently, we do the borrowing for them so they can do GO (General Obligation) bonds, which is necessary—this is actually a USDA loan, and so the GO bond was backing it. Frequently, we do these types of loans because they come with a lot of grant money. So that's the reason we did this one. But the loans are frequently like 30 to 35 year repayment terms. So the monthly payments are very small, and Water Supply would just like to pay it off and be done with it. So they will actually be giving us the money to pay off the loan. So we just need the appropriation and we ask for your support. MS. DAVID: Thank you. I yield. Thank you. CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Richards. MR. RICHARDS: Hi Deanna. No penalty for ? MS. SAKO: No, we checked all of that, and yeah, there's prepayment penalty or anything like that. The interest rate is good, but it's still more than what they make in their investments. So they just feel it's more prudent to pay it off Page 24 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 MR. RICHARDS: Okay, and cash position, I assume they're going to be okay then, so that all works out? Okay, I yield. CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay, any other discussion? Seeing or hearing none, all those in favor say "aye." Vote on Bill 198: The motion to pass Bill 198 on first reading was carried by (Approved) the following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter—8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles — 1. Excused: None. CHR. POINDEXTER: Bill 198 moves to second reading. Deanna, do you want us to finish all of the second reading ones, the bills, since you're here? MS. SAKO: That would be good, yes. Thank you. CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay if you don't mind, nobody objects to it, Bill 184. Bill 184: AMENDS ORDINANCE NO. 18-68, AS AMENDED, THE OPERATING BUDGET FOR THE COUNTY OF HAWAII FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2019 Appropriates revenues in the Federal Grants —Local Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program account ($113,387); and appropriates the same to the Local JAG Program account. Funds would be used by the Hawaii County Police Department to purchase a driving simulator for its Emergency Vehicle Operator Course as well as remedial training of employees involved in traffic collisions. Reference: Comm. 1038 Intr. by: Ms. David (B/R) First Reading: September 19, 2018 Vote on Bill 184: Ms. David moved to pass Bill 184 on second and final (Adopted) reading. Seconded by Ms. Eoff and carried by the following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter—8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles — 1. Excused: None. Page 25 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 CHR. POINDEXTER: Bill 184 is adopted. Mr. Clerk, Bill 185. Bill 185: AMENDS ORDINANCE NO. 18-68, AS AMENDED, THE OPERATING BUDGET FOR THE COUNTY OF HAWAII FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2019 Increases revenues in the State Grants —Glass Recycling Program account ($5,854); and appropriates the same to the Glass Recycling Program—State account, for a total appropriation of$117,730. Funds would be used by the Department of Environmental Management to offset a portion of the cost of glass collection and reuse. Reference: Comm. 1040 Intr. by: Ms. David (B/R) First Reading: September 19, 2018 Vote on Bill 185: Ms. David moved to pass Bill 185 on second and final (Adopted) reading. Seconded by Mr. Richards and carried by the following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter—8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles — 1. Excused: None. CHR. POINDEXTER: Bill 185 is adopted. Mr. Clerk, Bill 188. Bill 188: AMENDS ORDINANCE NO. 18-68, AS AMENDED, THE OPERATING BUDGET FOR THE COUNTY OF HAWAII FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2019 Appropriates revenues in the State Grants —Waimea Needs Assessment account ($10,000); and appropriates the same to the Waimea Needs Assessment account. Funds would be used by the Department of Research and Development to support a needs-assessment of the Waimea agricultural sector to be used in the development of a master plan of the Kamuela Vacuum Cooperative. Reference: Comm. 1063 Intr. by: Ms. David (B/R) First Reading: September 19, 2018 Motion to Approve: Ms. David moved to pass Bill 188 on second and final reading. Seconded by Mr. Richards. Page 26 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member David. MS. DAVID: I'd like to defer to Council Member Richards, if he would have any comments to this. MR. RICHARDS: Yeah, the vacuum cooling plan has been there forever, and essentially what it does is it helps the local farmers. The initial plan was to help get everything to market. To say it's fallen into disrepair I think is a fair statement. But they've done a really good job. They've been able to second purpose some other things, like my understanding is the building and the roof years ago was repurposed and actually brought to Waimea to get that done. I've been puzzling on that, on what to do. I think there was a potential resource there, but we've come a lot of years and I don't think we've really captured what we need to get done there. So I'm actually quite excited to see that this is coming forth, because someone can come up with a good plan and then go to the State, see where we can find some funding. So I ask for your support. Thank you. CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Any other discussion? Seeing or hearing none, all those in favor, say "aye." Vote on Bill 188: The motion to pass Bill 188 on second and final reading (Adopted) was carried by the following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter—8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles — 1. Excused: None. CHR. POINDEXTER: Bill 188 is adopted. Mr. Clerk, let's go to the top of the agenda, Resolution 679-18. Return to Order The Chair directed the Council to return to the Order of Business. of Business: ORDER OF The Chair directed the Council to proceed to the next order of business, Order of RESOLUTIONS: Resolutions. (Note: Items in this category were taken up previously, out of order.) Page 27 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 Res. 679-18: AUTHORIZES THE ACCEPTANCE OF A DONATION OF TWO BUSES FROM THE MAUI COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Accepts a 2004 ADI double deck bus and a 2014 Chevrolet bus, which would be used by the Mass Transit Agency to provide island-wide transportation. Reference: Comm. 1055 Intr. by: Ms. David (B/R) Approve: FC-139 Motion to Approve: Ms. David moved to adopt Res. 679-18. Seconded by Mr. Kanuha. CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member David. MS. DAVID: Yes, this was discussed in Committee, and I'd just like to say thank you to Maui County Department of Transportation for these donations. I yield. CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Chung. MR. CHUNG: Thank you. I supported this at the Committee level. I'm not going to be supporting it now. It's not like I've come across new information or anything like, but I'm kind of troubled. Certainly we want to encourage cooperation between counties, and we'd like to save as much money as we can. I'm getting concerned about these things that are given up to us free, you know, from City and County and now from Maui County. I don't know what the logistics are involved in this, you know in terms of repairing these things, the compatibility with our other buses. I don't know what kind of training's involved in all of this. I really don't know how effective this thing is going to be for its intended use, to go cross-island. You know, we did approve a GET increase, albeit a smaller one than the Administration had asked for. I think it's time that we just kind of stood on our own two feet already. I just really don't know much about these things. And I don't think the Mass Transit department—well they're not here, but you know, I'm just going to be voting against it. Thank you. CHR. POINDEXTER: Any other discussion? Council Member Lee Loy. MS. LEE LOY: Thank you, Mr. Chung, for that. I am going to support it, but he is raising a good issue, that we don't want to become, you know, the hand-me-downs and then have to deal with disposal issues. I'm kind of kicking myself right now that I didn't ask this in Committee. Because the last time we got a double-decker bus, besides it breaking down within a few months of receiving it, my understanding is it didn't fit under the fuel station area. It was too tall. So Page 28 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 when they would try to fuel the bus, they had to go about it in a different way. Now we have a new bus baseyard, so I'm kicking myself right now for not asking the question, "Does this double-decker bus fit in the new Mass Transit station?" You know, I guess that I want to support this one, but thank you for raising that concern, Mr. Chung. CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Council Member Richards. MR. RICHARDS: Thank you, Chair. I think Councilman Chung does bring up some very valid points. I've been thinking on that. Though I totally appreciate the other jurisdictions helping us, sometimesI'm not sure how this going to fit into our overall structure of fleet consistency or longevity within the fleet. I have to agree with what Councilman Chung is saying, because that did bother me when I saw that on the dockets. I was not here for the Committee meeting, but that does concern me as far as going forward and longevity. So though I appreciate the offer and I know our Mass Transit needs a lot of help, I'm concerned that we may just be getting more problematic as we go forward with this. So I yield at this point. CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Council Member Eoff MS. EOFF: Does anyone remember if the bus was already shipped here though? I mean I think it's already beenoh, okay, so it's sort of just a symbolic "no." Okay, thank you. CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Council Member O'Hara. MS. O'HARA: I really appreciate the points raised because it's been my concern all along, of how we've been running Mass Transit on these hand-me-downs that there's no consistency in terms of brands and models and making it very difficult to maintain. But even greater, we have accepted all of these buses with zero disposal plans. If you don't think that's a problem, it is. Because this does not fit within our scrap metal contract. So we have accrued many, many bus bodies. They're just sitting around rotting and all on County property. So I think that if this is a practice that continues, and hopefully this is kind of the end of that practice now that we have properly funded Mass Transit to get on a better path, the Mass Transit Master Plan path that we've adopted, I would hope this is the last action of this type, and if it isn't, please demand a disposal plan before you accept any more buses from City and County or Maui County. Thank you. MR. CHUNG: Yeah, I just wanted to make one more comment. CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay, Council Member Chung. Page 29 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 MR. CHUNG: It's very brief I don't want to seem like I'm not appreciative of what's been going on both from our Mass Transit department as well as the other counties, but it's long been told to me, and I've always tried to keep this in the back of my mind, that our Mass Transit division, or our transit system, should be driven by needs, not hardware. What's happening here is, as far as I can tell in our Mass Transit Master Plan, there was no call for double-decker buses going from one end of the island to the other. Now all of a sudden we get these double-decker buses from Maui and we're going to use them, it's not part of our plan. So I just wanted to make that last comment. Thank you. CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay. Deanna is here and I think she wanted to respond to that, too. Because I think if I'm not MR. CHUNG: Fiscal standpoint or a Mass Transit? (Note: At this time, Finance Director Deanna Sako came forward to address the members of the Council.) MS. SAKO: I just wanted to clarify one thing, that—you know, I missed part of the conversation for walking upstairs then walking back downstairs, but I believe Ms. Kai did address it during the Committee in that this is just a stop-gap measure until we're able to order and receive our buses. But in addition, it's only one of them is a double-decker bus, and it is the same model that we already have, so we're able to share parts for it. So I just wanted to clarify that. That may not answer all your questions. MR. CHUNG: Actually Mr. Kanuha asked those questions, and they were answered. But I'm just talking about the overall concept of what's been going on with City and County, Maui, I don't think we should be doing that already. MS. SAKO: Right. And this isa lot of these donations were in place prior to getting the whole master plan in place. So it's not going to be a way of the future, so to speak. CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay, thank you. Thank you for coming back. Okay, any other discussion? Seeing or hearing none, all those in favor say "aye." Vote on Res. 679-18: The motion to adopt Res. 679-18 was carried by the (Adopted) following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, and Chair Poindexter–6. Noes: Council Members Chung, and Richards –2. Absent: Council Member Ruggles – 1. Excused: None. Page 30 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 CHR. POINDEXTER: Resolution 679-18 is adopted. Mr. Clerk, Resolution 680-18. Res. 680-18: GRANTS A VARIANCE FROM CHAPTER 3, SECTION 3-12(a) HAWAII COUNTY CODE 1983 (2016 EDITION, AS AMENDED), TO ALLOW ONE GROUND SIGN AT THE NEW ENTRANCE TO THE HAWAII OCEAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PARK, AT THE INTERSECTION OF KAIMINANI DRIVE AND QUEEN KA`AHUMANU HIGHWAY, TAX MAP KEY: 7-3-043:113 (ZONED "0" OPEN DISTRICT) The Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority seeks a variance from a requirement that ground signs be no more than eight square feet in area, for a sign that would measure 79 square feet, with a maximum lettering size of 13 inches. Reference: Comm. 1058 Intr. by: Ms. David (B/R) Approve: PWPRC-50 Motion to Approve: Ms. David moved to adopt Res. 680-18. Seconded by Ms. Eoff. CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member David. MS. DAVID: Yes, I just ask for your continued support, and this was explained by the representatives from NELHA at our Kona meeting. So thank you. I yield. CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay, any other discussion? Seeing or hearing none, all those in favor say "aye." Vote on Res. 680-18: The motion to adopt Res. 680-18 was carried by the (Adopted) following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter—8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles — 1. Excused: None. CHR. POINDEXTER: Resolution 680-18 is adopted. Mr. Clerk, Resolution 683-18. Page 31 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 Res. 683-18: TRANSFERS/APPROPRIATES AN APPROPRIATION OUT AND FROM A DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT AND CREDITS SAME TO A DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT TO PURCHASE FITNESS EQUIPMENT FOR THE PAHOA DISTRICT PARK Transfers $6,500 from the Clerk-Council Services —Contingency Relief account (Council District 4); and credits to the Department of Parks and Recreation, Recreation Division Equipment account. Reference: Comm. 1065 Intr. by: Ms. O'Hara Motion to Approve: Ms. O'Hara moved to adopt Res. 683-18. Seconded by Mr. Richards. CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member O'Hara. MS. O'HARA: Thank you. This is a CRF (Contingency Relief Funds) request. It was actually on my wait list from last year because we didn't receive 100 percent of our funding last year, and this year kind of small dollars. So hopefully this will help. It's to purchase fitness equipment for the new gym in Pahoa specifically for women. We have men's equipment but we don't have equipment for women. CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Any other discussion? Seeing or hearing none, all those in favor say "aye." Vote on Res. 683-18: The motion to adopt Res. 683-18 was carried by the (Adopted) following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter—8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles — 1. Excused: None. CHR. POINDEXTER: Resolution 683-18 is adopted. Mr. Clerk, Resolution 684-18. Page 32 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 Res. 684-18: TRANSFERS/APPROPRIATES AN APPROPRIATION OUT AND FROM A DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT AND CREDITS SAME TO A DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT TO PROVIDE A GRANT TO THE FRIENDS OF THE FUTURE TO SUPPORT THE 2018 HAWAII ISLAND WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SUMMIT Transfers $1,000 from the Clerk-Council Services —Contingency Relief account (Council District 1); and credits to the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, Committee on Status of Women account. Reference: Comm. 1066 Intr. by: Ms. Poindexter Vote on Res. 684-18: Ms. Eoff moved to adopt Res. 684-18. Seconded by (Adopted) Mr. Kanuha and carried by the following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter—8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles — 1. Excused: None. CHR. POINDEXTER: Resolution 684-18 is adopted. Mr. Clerk, Resolution 685-18. Res. 685-18: TRANSFERS/APPROPRIATES AN APPROPRIATION OUT AND FROM A DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT AND CREDITS SAME TO A DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT TO PROVIDE A GRANT TO THE BIG ISLAND RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL TO ASSIST WITH EXPENSES RELATED TO THE 2018 HAWAII ISLAND VETERANS DAY PARADE Transfers $1,000 from the Clerk-Council Services —Contingency Relief account (Council District 1); and credits to the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, Other Current Expenses account. Reference: Comm. 1067 Intr. by: Ms. Poindexter Page 33 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 Vote on Res. 685-18: Ms. Eoff moved to adopt Res. 685-18. Seconded by (Adopted) Mr. Kanuha and carried by the following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter—8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles — 1. Excused: None. CHR. POINDEXTER: Resolution 685-18 is adopted. Mr. Clerk, Resolution 686-18. Res. 686-18: TRANSFERS/APPROPRIATES AN APPROPRIATION OUT AND FROM A 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 THE COQUI FROG INFESTATION IN COUNCIL DISTRICT 6 Transfers $2,000 from the Clerk-Council Services —Contingency Relief account (Council District 6); and credits to the Department of Research and Development, Agriculture Other Current Expenses account. Reference: Comm. 1068 Intr. by: Ms. David Motion to Approve: Ms. David moved to adopt Res. 686-18. Seconded by Mr. Kanuha. CHR. POINDEXTER: Ms. David. MS. DAVID: Yes, and this is an ongoing effort for us to help our communities with the coqui frog infestation. We just try to do what we can and they really appreciate it. The community really appreciates it. So I just ask for your support. CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay, any other discussion? Seeing or hearing none, all those in favor, say "aye." Page 34 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 Vote on Res. 686-18: The motion to adopt Res. 686-18 was carried by the (Adopted) following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter—8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles — 1. Excused: None. CHR. POINDEXTER: Resolution 686-18 is adopted. Mr. Clerk, Resolution 687-18. Res. 687-18: TRANSFERS/APPROPRIATES AN APPROPRIATION OUT AND FROM A 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 IN COUNCIL DISTRICT 8 Transfers $2,000 from the Clerk-Council Services —Contingency Relief account (Council District 8); and credits to the Department of Research and Development, Agriculture Other Current Expenses account. Reference: Comm. 1069 Intr. by: Ms. Eoff Motion to Approve: Ms. Eoff moved to adopt Res. 687-18. Seconded by Mr. Richards. CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Eoff MS. EOFF: Thank you. I'll just offer a thank you to all the people that helped coordinate this to be able to take place. Even though it is getting to be a hard battle, I think we appreciate being able to get this citric acid. And they are trying to be diligent in their communities. So thank you. CHR. POINDEXTER: Any other discussion? Seeing or hearing none, all those in favor, say "aye." Page 35 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 Vote on Res. 687-18: The motion to adopt Res. 687-18 was carried by the (Adopted) following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter–8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles – 1. Excused: None. CHR. POINDEXTER: Resolution 687-18 is adopted. Mr. Clerk, Resolution 688-18. Res. 688-18: TRANSFERS/APPROPRIATES AN APPROPRIATION OUT AND FROM A 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 IN COUNCIL DISTRICT 7 Transfers $2,500 from the Clerk-Council Services –Contingency Relief account (Council District 7); and credits to the Department of Research and Development, Agriculture Other Current Expenses account. Reference: Comm. 1070 Intr. by: Mr. Kanuha Motion to Approve: Mr. Kanuha moved to adopt Res. 688-18. Seconded by Ms. Eoff. CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Kanuha. MR. KANUHA: Thank you. Again, this is an ongoing effort, trying to control the coqui frog infestation in our districts. There are a lot of places, especially within my district that are coqui free, and the community really appreciates these vouchers to keep coquis out of their neighborhoods. They're pretty effective, and it really kind of gets their communities together to help battle, and now they're on to other issues such as ants, fire ants. So it kind of keeps them together in trying to handle a lot of these invasive species within their communities. So I just want to thank those communities for being patient with us. I know this isn't a lot of citric acid, and I did have to one-up my fellow Council members in putting $2,500 instead of$2,000, but—No, I don't know why mine was $2,500 and theirs $2,000, but I just thank you guys for supporting this and I ask for your continued support for these monies to be used for coqui frog wars. CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Council Member Richards. Page 36 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 MR. RICHARDS: I'm just going to actually commend my colleagues to keep the efforts going forward. Kohala's been very effective as far as their control efforts as long as they have the resources available, and the people are going out. I was going to comment that Councilman Kanuha, I just figured your district had more coqui frogs, that's why you had to do it. CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Council Member O'Hara. MS. O'HARA: We lost the battle. CHR. POINDEXTER: Any other discussion? Seeing or hearing none, all those in favor, say "aye." Vote on Res. 688-18: The motion to adopt Res. 688-18 was carried by the (Adopted) following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter—8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles — 1. Excused: None. CHR. POINDEXTER: Resolution 688-18 is adopted. Mr. Clerk, Resolution 689-18. Res. 689-18: TRANSFERS/APPROPRIATES AN APPROPRIATION OUT AND FROM A DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT AND CREDITS SAME TO A DESIGNATED FUND ACCOUNT TO PURCHASE A LINE TAPING MACHINE FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION'S PARK FACILITIES IN THE HILO AREA Transfers $320 from the Clerk-Council Services —Contingency Relief account (Council District 3); and credits to the Department of Parks and Recreation, Friends of the Park account. Reference: Comm. 1071 Intr. by: Ms. Lee Loy Motion to Approve: Ms. Lee Loy moved to adopt Res. 689-18. Seconded by Mr. Eoff. CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Lee Loy. MS. LEE LOY: Thank you, Chair. I know everyone got a big chuckle from our testifiers about pickleball, but it really is becoming the fasted growing sport here, and we are a little behind the curve. The idea that this club and this community is Page 37 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 really stepping up, and what I really appreciate is they're actually sort of repurposing some of our existing courts to help create the space for them to have these pickleball courts. And I did go. I said it's tough, it's tough because it's a game of strategy, quick reflexes. It is a mash-up of badminton with tennis on a smaller court. It's a quick game and you really do get a sweat. It's very popular amongst our seniors and our kupunas, and so we all recognize the growth that we're going to be experiencing there. So I'm actually really proud to kind of get them the funding to get them started. I wouldn't be surprised if they started asking for more in all of our recreational facilities across the island. So I do ask for your support. Thank you. CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Council Member Kanuha. MR. KANUHA: Thank you. Thank you for doing this, and you know, a few years ago when I first heardI'm a tennis player so I had no idea what pickle ball was until a group of kupuna came to my office saying, you know, "We don't have a place to play." I'm talking about the Kona side. We have a limited amount of tennis courts anyway. So I was hesitant to use the tennis courts as a pickleball location because we only have four public tennis courts on the west side. Or maybe five or six, but—so they started using the basketball courts at the Kailua Gym. There's lines everywhere on the basketball courts. I don't even know what lines are what. But I think looking into the future, it would be incumbent upon us to have separate pickleball places for those that want to play this sport, because it is a growing sport, and there's a lot of kupuna that want to, as some of them stated over here, it's gentler on their bodies and not so tough. So you don't see too many injuries, and a lot of people really want to play. It kind of is a good transition from a tennis style to a pickleball style. So I'm a big advocate for recreation and especially this one. So I'll support your line machine. But in the future I think it's good for us to look at recreational expansion for this specific activity. CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Council Member O'Hara. MS. O'HARA: I just wanted to remind the Council that the master plan for the new planned County park in Hawaiian Paradise Park calls for a pickleball court. It may be our first one incorporated into park design. Thank you. CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Lee Loy. MS. LEE LOY: And if I could follow up on that. I actually see it as an economic generator. To be honest, when I looked into it, there are a number of seniors who Page 38 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 are able to travel. They will travel to places that have pickleball tournaments. It really is rather interesting how this community who has the opportunity to travel will actually identify places to go because of these types of facilities. So if anything, seeing trends and seeing around the corner a little bit, I don't think it would hurt us when we start planning future facilities or start wanting to expand our facilities, that we put this as part of a consideration to the size of those court facilities. But I do appreciate all of your support. And Mr. Kanuha, you know, I'll challenge you one day. Thank you. CHR. POINDEXTER: Yeah, and I want to say thank you to Council Member Lee Loy, because Hamakua District has been calling about, "When can we paint the lines?" But Parks and Rec are saying we've got to resurface some of the older tennis courts because we have a few throughout the district. But they're playing pickleball out there for a long time too. So I'd love to see the tennis courts resurfaced and I'd love to see plans when we do like when we did the Kukuihaele Park, that we do maybe the pickleball painting. Maybe we can borrow your machine, to take it to Kukuihaele Park to paint on the basketball court there. The open, to pickleball. But yeah, everybody's into it. So maybe this Council can go do a pickleball fund raising tournament like we talked about earlier. That would kind of be fun. But anyway, thank you. Thank you for doing that. Okay, all those in favor, say Ic aye. Vote on Res. 689-18: The motion to adopt Res. 689-18 was carried by the (Adopted) following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter—8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles — 1. Excused: None. CHR. POINDEXTER: Resolution 689-18 is adopted. Now we move to Resolution 698-18. Page 39 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 Res. 698-18: AUTHORIZES THE ACCEPTANCE OF A DONATION OF RESPIRATOR MASKS TO THE COUNTY OF HAWAII Donated by HPM Building Supply, this donation of 2,095 respirator masks was distributed to the Puna, Ka`u, and Hilo districts due to volcanic ash emitted during the recent Kilauea eruption. Reference: Comm. 1084 Intr. by: Ms. David (B/R) Waived: FC Motion to Approve: Ms. David moved to adopt Res. 698-18. Seconded by Ms. Lee Loy. CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member David. MS. DAVID: Yes, and this as well as the following three resolutions are all donations of respirator masks from different people. So I'd just like to thank HPM Building Supply for their donation and ask for your support. CHR. POINDEXTER: Any other discussion? Council Member Lee Loy. MS. LEE LOY: I want to say thank you, too,just because I have a lot of friends and family at HPM where they build better. So thank you. I yield. CHR. POINDEXTER: That was a commercial. Council Member O'Hara. MS. O'HARA: Thank you, Chair. I was just looking through to see these have already been donated. How were they dispersed? Oh hi Diane, I didn't see you back there. (Note: At this time, Research and Development Director Diane Ley came forward to address the members of the Council.) MS. LEY: Good morning, Council Chair, Council Members. My name is Diane Ley. I'm the Director for the Department of Research and Development. So when the eruption occurred on May 3, you know, immediately there was a concern about the volcanic emissions and in particular ash plumes coming from the summit area. So we had many different companies; HPM, `Ohana Health Services, and 3M as well as Mr. Stanley Palms out of Washington State, step forward and just called Civil Defense and said, "Can we make a donation of the dust masks for resident's use?" So they kindly, all of them got together, organized, they shipped the materials, and we had a total of over 118,000 masks donated, and a total of 52,133 were distributed through the communities of Kea`au, Volcano, Pahala, Na`alehu and Ocean View; as well as a few I think way out in Captain Cook area. The Department of Health organized that. Page 40 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 And it was really a collaborative effort between the County, led by folks at Civil Defense, and the CERT's (Community Emergency Response Teams), the emergency response teams, the Department of Health and their Medical Reserve Corporation, Planning Department assisted, and Research and Development. And so they really just got out, and you know, did a number of outreach events. They provided safety information on how to use the masks properly, what their purpose is, that they don't protect against the gasses, but they do the particulate matter. So it was I think a very successful outreach, and there is a supply left in Civil Defense's warehouses. Does that answer your question? MS. O'HARA: Yes it does. Thank you very much. MS. LEY: And I do want to acknowledge in particular, the donations were large and again, folks just stepped forward. But one in particular, Mr. Stanley Palms of Washington, he wanted to be sure that we recognized his aunty from lower Puna. Ms. Florence Naeole. So I wanted to acknowledge that. He remembered her and sent a nice picture of her as well. CHR. POINDEXTER: Okay, any other discussion? Seeing or hearing none, all those in favor, say "aye." Vote on Res. 698-18: The motion to adopt Res. 698-18 was carried by the (Adopted) following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter—8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles — 1. Excused: None. CHR. POINDEXTER: Resolution 698-18 is adopted. Mr. Clerk, Resolution 699-18. Res. 699-18: AUTHORIZES THE ACCEPTANCE OF A DONATION OF RESPIRATOR MASKS TO THE COUNTY OF HAWAII Donated by `Ohana Health Plan, this donation of 12,000 respirator masks was distributed to the Puna, Ka`u, and Hilo districts due to volcanic ash emitted during the recent Kilauea eruption. Reference: Comm. 1085 Intr. by: Ms. David (B/R) Waived: FC Motion to Approve: Ms. David moved to adopt Res. 699-18. Seconded by Ms. O'Hara. Page 41 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member David, MS. DAVID: Yes,just mahalo to `Ohana Health Plan for their donation, and ask for your support. CHR. POINDEXTER: Any other discussion? Seeing or hearing none, all those in favor, say "aye." Vote on Res. 699-18: The motion to adopt Res. 699-18 was carried by the (Adopted) following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter–8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles – 1. Excused: None. CHR. POINDEXTER: Resolution 699-18 is adopted. Mr. Clerk, Resolution 700-18. Res. 700-18: AUTHORIZES THE ACCEPTANCE OF A DONATION OF RESPIRATOR MASKS TO THE COUNTY OF HAWAII Donated by 3M Hawai`i, this donation of 98,000 respirator masks was distributed to the Puna, Ka`u, and Hilo districts due to volcanic ash emitted during the recent Kilauea eruption. Reference: Comm. 1086 Intr. by: Ms. David (B/R) Waived: FC Motion to Approve: Ms. David moved to adopt Res. 700-18. Seconded by Ms. Lee Loy. CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member David, MS. DAVID: Yes,just ask for your support and mahalo to 3M Hawai`i. CHR. POINDEXTER: Any other discussion? Seeing or hearing noneoh, Council Member Richards. MR. RICHARDS: Some 100,000 masks. Are there still some left over? Are they still in storage someplace? MS. DAVID: About half—yeah, about 50,000, as Ms. Ley said, is in Civil Defense. Page 42 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 MR. RICHARDS: Okay, got it. Thank you. CHR. POINDEXTER: Any other discussion? Seeing or hearing none, all those in favor, say "aye." Vote on Res. 700-18: The motion to adopt Res. 700-18 was carried by the (Adopted) following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter—8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles — 1. Excused: None. CHR. POINDEXTER: Resolution 700-18 is adopted. Mr. Clerk, Resolution 701-18. Res. 701-18: AUTHORIZES THE ACCEPTANCE OF A DONATION OF RESPIRATOR MASKS TO THE COUNTY OF HAWAII Donated by Stanley B. Palms of Bucoda, Washington, in memory of Florence Keuapuni Naeole, this donation of 150 HDX N95 respirator masks and 120 3M brand particulate respirator masks was distributed to the Puna community due to volcanic ash emitted during the recent Kilauea eruption. Reference: Comm. 1087 Intr. by: Ms. David (B/R) Waived: FC Motion to Approve: Ms. David moved to adopt Res. 701-18. Seconded by Ms. Lee Loy. CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member David. MS. DAVID: Mahalo to Mr. Palms, and in memory of Florence Naeole, and ask for your support. CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Member Kanuha. MR. KANUHA: How much do one of these masks normally cost off the shelf? MS. O'HARA: It depends on the type of mask. The 3M masks, they're the good kind, but they were kind of pricy. And yeah, you could get one for $25. I didn't say it when we were on that item, but I think there was some involvement from Page 43 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 our congressional delegates, in particular Tulsi Gabbard, in making that 3M donation. I would have to track back on that, but as I recall she basically bought them out. CHR. POINDEXTER: Thank you. Thank you, Council Member O'Hara. Councilman Kanuha, you still have the floor. MR. KANUHA: Yeah, because I mean,just going back on to the 3M and the 90,000 respirator masks that they donated, that's pretty unreal. So trying to translate that into dollar amounts. Just something to think about. CHR. POINDEXTER: Council Woman Lee Loy. MS. LEE LOY: So I'll help you a little bit. The regular masks, like they're kind of white, you see them at the hospital, those are about $10-$12 at HPM where they build better. Then the more expensive masks, those will run about $100, but it's the filters that go with it that are costly. So it would be about $30-$50 for the filter. So the mask itself is one part, but the filter is another cost. CHR. POINDEXTER: Any other discussion? Seeing or hearing none, all those in favor, say "aye." Vote on Res. 701-18: The motion to adopt Res. 701-18 was carried by the (Adopted) following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter—8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles — 1. Excused: None. BILLS FOR The Chair directed the Council to proceed to the next order of business, Bills for ORDINANCES: Ordinances (First Reading). (FIRST READING) (Note: The items in this category were taken up previously, out of order.) ORDER OF The Chair directed the Council to proceed to the next order of business, Order of THE DAY: the Day (Second or Final Reading). (SECOND OR FINAL READING) (Note: The items in this category were taken up previously, out of order.) CHR. POINDEXTER: Resolution 701-18 is adopted. Mr. Clerk, now we move to Reports. Page 44 Hawaii County Council-50 October 3,2018 REPORTS: The Chair directed the Council to proceed to the next order of business, Reports. PC-72 NOMINATION OF CHRIS CACKLEY TO THE NORTH KOHALA (Comm. 1057): COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN ACTION COMMITTEE Requires Council Confirmation by: October 13, 2018 (Section 13-4(1), Hawaii County Charter) Vote on PC-72: Mr. Richards moved to adopt Planning Committee Report (Adopted) No. 72. Seconded by Ms. O'Hara and carried by the following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter—8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles — 1. Excused: None. CHR. POINDEXTER: The nomination for Chris Cackley is approved to the North Hawaii Community Development Plan Action Committee. Mr. Clerk, EMC-7. EMC-7 NOMINATION OF DEE FULTON TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL (Comm. 1056): MANAGEMENT COMMISSION Requires Council Confirmation by: October 13, 2018 (Section 13-4(1), Hawaii County Charter) Vote on EMC-7: Ms. Lee Loy moved to adopt Environmental Management (Adopted) Committee Report No. 7. Seconded by Mr. Kanuha and carried by the following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter—8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles — 1. Excused: None. CHR. POINDEXTER: The Nomination of Dee Fulton is approved. Page 45 Hawai`i County Council-50 October 3,2018 REFERRALS The Chair directed the Council to proceed to the next order of business, Referrals FOR EXECUTIVE for Executive Session. SESSION: (There were 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.) ADJOURN- There being no further business, at 1:51 p.m. Ms. Lee Loy moved that the meeting MENT: be adjourned. Seconded by Ms. David and carried by the following voice vote: Ayes: Council Members Chung, David, Eoff, Kanuha, Lee Loy, O'Hara, Richards, and Chair Poindexter— 8. Noes: None. Absent: Council Member Ruggles— 1. Excused: None. CHR. POINDEXTER: Meeting is adjourned. NOV 0 2 2018 Council Approval:_ • C i� TY CLERK SM/dg/ja Page 46