2001-07-19 Enviromental Management Commission Minutes

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Minutes for Thursday, July 19, 2001Page 1 of 4 Return to: Home Page | Table of Contents | Commission Page ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT COMMISSION Thursday, July 19, 2001 9:11 a.m. Kona Police Department Conference Room 74-5221 Queen Ka`ahumanu Highway, Kailua-Kona, Hawai`i 96740 PRESENT:David Kimo FrankelALSO PRESENT:Peter Boucher, WWD Hugh OnoLarry Capellas, SWD Riley SmithGalen Kuba, Acting Deputy Director Barbara BellLester Ishado, Corporation Counsel Carolyn WitcherClyde M. Yoshida, Office of Housing Luana Jones and Community Development Mack AsatoBill Moore Sam KawamuraKu`ulei Snyder for Councilman Gary Safarik EXCUSED:Peter Martin James Flood Haaheo Gusman STAFF:Valerie Tanimoto Elaine Watai John Stubbort CALL TO ORDER Barbara called the meeting to order at 9:11 a.m. APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF JULY 3, 2001 MEETING Sam Kawamura motioned to approve Minutes of the July 3, 2001 meeting. Hugh Ono seconded. Motion was carried unanimously. STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC ON ITEMS LISTED ON AGENDA Jim Flood, President of the Homeowners Association of Kamani Tree Subdivision. This 135 home subdivision eventually will need to be hooked onto the sewer and wondered if there was a schedule or proposed time. Would like to see it moved to a position where it’s done before realignment of Ali`i Parkway goes in so that we don’t have to pump up hill. When the Ali`i Parkway goes in, it’s going to cut us off from going directly to Ali`i Drive and we can’t go laterally because there’s a concrete flood control ditch between us and Ali`i Kai Subdivision. Peter Boucher indicated that Kamani Tree Subdivision is planned within 10 years for hook up to the sewer. As part of the highway design, as the final design gets wrapped up, the stubs for connecting across would be appropriate planning and when we review the plans for the highways that would be the kind of things that we would be looking for in future expansion. APPROVAL OF ADDENDUM AND/OR SUPPLEMENTAL AGENDA Hugh motioned to move Item 6 - Update from Housing and Community Development re: Grant Loan Program before Item 5 - Update from Wastewater Division. Carolyn Witcher seconded. Motion carried unanimously. Kimo said that the proposed scheduling of agenda topics could be discussed under Item 9. Barbara also wanted to make a comment on the SWAC’s meeting of July 3, 2001 and could be discussed under Item 8 or 9. UPDATE FROM HOUSING & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT RE GRANT LOAN PROGRAM Clyde M. Yoshida, Office of Housing and Community Development, distributed Residential Emergency Repair Program (RERP) Fact Sheet. Basically it’s a loan program for low and moderate-income families. It’s federally funded so we have to comply with the income limits. The primary qualifications would be besides income is the families have to live in the home at least a year prior to application. There is a $250.00 application fee, which is used to do a title search and credit check. The program is basically for emergency repairs. At least 95% of the people who apply are applying to change their roof, plumbing, electrical, termite treatment. We had only one homeowner so far who applied to do only sewer hook up, but we had have other homeowners who used the program to hook up as well as do other home repairs. The maximum loan amount is $20,000.00 and the minimum is $2,500.00. There is a 3% interest but the program is deferred which means that there is no payment for 15 years, principal or interest. It’s a balloon payment at 15 years. The program actually benefits people on fixed income or people who cannot incur additional file://C:\Test1\minutes071901.htm6/22/2011