02-27-2012 SKCDP AC Minutes - Final

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SOUTH KOHALA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN ACTION COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES OF MEETING Held February 27, 2012 A regular meeting of the South Kohala Community Development Plan Action Committee was held on February 27, 2012. The meeting was called to order at 5:30 p.m. at The Hamakua Macadamia Nut Factory, located at 61-3251 Maluokalani Street in Kawaihae, pursuant to notice. The following members of the Committee were present when the meeting was called to order: Loreli Eberhardt Mike Fischer John Hoover Robin Inaba Chris Roehrig Achahn Schulze Nancy Carr Smith Committee member Margaret Horwatt was absent. Also present were Planning Director Bobby Jean Leithead-Todd, Project Manager Rosalind Newlon and Terry Dunlap from the Office of the Hawaii County Planning Department. The Chairman called the meeting to order and noted that a quorum of the Committee was present. Mike Price delivered a statement as a member of the public. He discussed the upcoming meeting concerning long range transport planning for the County of Hawaii and its impact on Kawaihae and the harbor and stressed that this meeting presented an opportunity for input from the public on this subject. Margaret Wille then spoke about the importance of Kawaihae and the likely growth that will occur in and around Kawaihae in the near future. She noted the plan to cut all eucalyptus trees from the Hamakua coast and store the debris in Kawaihae during the next seven years before it will be shipped off island from the Kawaihae Harbor. Finally, Ms. Wille urged that the Waimea subcommittee focus on issues like domestic violence and child abuse and the middle school governance problem that has arisen recently. The members of the Committee then considered the draft of the minutes of the meeting held on January 23, 2012, and, in the absence of any comments or proposed amendments or modifications, the Chairman deemed the minutes approved in the form distributed to the members in advance of the meeting. 1