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PUNA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 1 ACTION COMMITTEE 2
COUNTY OF HAWAI’I 3
FINAL MINUTES 4 June 6, 2024 5 6
CALL TO ORDER 7
Vice Chair Leilani DeMello called the Puna Community Development Plan (CDP) Action 8
Committee (AC) meeting to order at 5:08 p.m. A quorum was established with six members in 9 attendance. This meeting was held in person at the Volcano Cooper Center and via the Zoom 10 online platform. 11
The YouTube video of this meeting can be found here: 12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxOxqus_kNU&t=6972s 13
ROLL CALL 14 AC Members Present (in person): Martha Morishige 15
AC Members Present (via Zoom): Vice Chair Leilani DeMello, Leila Kealoha, Susan Osborne, 16 Jennifer Scheffel, and Gregory Henkel 17
AC Members Absent: Chair Kanoe Wilson and Franny Brewer 18
County Staff: Maryam Palma and Kawelo Kalili 19
There were approximately twelve members of the public in attendance (five in person and seven 20 via Zoom). 21
APPROVAL OF MINUTES [SEE YOUTUBE TIME STAMP 5:58] 22
Committee Member Osborne made a motion to approve the February 1, 2024, minutes. Motion 23
seconded by Committee Member Kealoha. Motion passed with 6 votes aye, 0 votes nay. 24
PUBLIC COMMENT ON AGENDA ITEMS: None. 25
BUSINESS: 26 1. Puna Brochure Permitted Interaction – Decision making on whether to create a 27
Permitted Interaction Group to investigate the existing Puna brochure. [SEE YOUTUBE 28
TIME STAMP 6:00] 29
Committee member Morishige motioned to keep the Puna Brochure as is. Committee 30 member Scheffel seconded the motion. The committee discussed the intention behind 31 forming a permitted interaction group to update the current Puna Brochure. Committee 32
member Morishige withdrew the motion to keep the brochure as is. [SEE YOUTUBE 33
TIME STAMP 11:45] 34
Committee member Osborne motioned for the AC to establish a Permitted Interaction 35 Group for the discussion, review and revision of the Puna Brochure. Committee member 36 Henkel seconded the motion. The members included in this PIG are Susie Osborne, Leila 37
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Kealoha and Jen Scheffel. The motion passed unanimously. [SEE YOUTUBE TIME 38 STAMP 17:15] 39
2. Orchidland Neighbors Park Update – Update by Orchidland Neighbors representative. 40
[SEE YOUTUBE TIME STAMP 19:56] 41 42 Orchidland Neighbors representative presented the Orchidland Neighbors park update. 43 [SEE YOUTUBE TIME STAMP 20:30] 44
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Orchidland Neighbors representative Jessie Molina presented the Orchidland Neighbors 46 park update. [SEE YOUTUBE TIME STAMP 27:15] 47 48 Committee member Kealoha asked to clarify how the AC can contribute to the initiative. 49
Representative Aste agreed to write a specific letter requesting the ACs support. [SEE 50
YOUTUBE TIME STAMP 31:25] 51 Stephanie Bath provided public testimony. [SEE YOUTUBE TIME STAMP 38:33] 52
Committee member Morishige motioned to discuss the Orchidland Park at the next 53
meeting. Seconded by Committee member Kealoha. The motion passed with 4 ayes and 2 54
abstentions. [SEE YOUTUBE TIME STAMP 47:14] 55 56 3. Overview of CDP Action Committee Purpose and Puna CDP Implementation 57 Priorities – Presentation by Planning Department staff on the background and roles of 58
the CDP Action Committee. Discussion to establish which implementation projects the 59
committee will pursue based off findings in the Puna CDP document. [SEE YOUTUBE 60
TIME STAMP 49:23] 61
Planning department staff Maryam Palma provided a refresher presentation on the CDP 62 AC roles and connectivity within the County and other government and non-government 63
agencies. [SEE YOUTUBE TIME STAMP 53:04] 64
Planning Department Recovery Division staff Patti Pinto provided a presentation on 65 previous Puna Action Committee projects [SEE YOUTUBE TIME STAMP 1:28:14] 66
Planning department staff Maryam Palma elaborated on the Resilience Capacity Areas 67 (RCAs). Committee member Kealoha clarified that the RCAs will be moving forward 68
and noted that four out of eight AC members are also on the RCAs. [SEE YOUTUBE 69
TIME STAMP 1:34:20] 70
The presentation concluded with the PCDP priority action items of the AC members. 71 [SEE YOUTUBE TIME STAMP 1:45:00] 72
Stephanie Bath provided public testimony. [SEE YOUTUBE TIME STAMP 1:57:10] 73
Hannah Hendricks provided public testimony. [SEE YOUTUBE TIME STAMP 2:03:00] 74
PROPOSED AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING [SEE YOUTUBE TIME STAMP 75 1:54:03] 76 1. Discussion of AC Implementation Priorities 77 2. Presentation by Recovery Division staff Zoe Callahan regarding the RCAs 78
3. Orchidland Neighborhood Park 79
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4. Update from House Representative and Senator 80
ADJOURNMENT: 81
Vice Chair DeMello adjourned the meeting at 7:16 P.M. [SEE YOUTUBE TIME STAMP 82
2:10:00] 83
These minutes and all related documents are available in the Planning Department’s Puna 84 Community Development Plan Action Committee folder via the County of Hawaiʻi Public 85 Documents Repository. These documents may also be requested from the Planning Department 86
by calling (808) 961-8288 or emailing cdp@hawaiicounty.gov. 87