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WATER BOARD
PUBLIC HEARING ON
PROPOSED OPERATING BUDGET AND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL
YEAR JULY 1, 2013, TO JUNE 30, 2014
Department of Water Supply, Operations Center, Conference Room, Hilo
March 19, 2013
PRESENT: Mr. Art Taniguchi, Chairperson
Mr. Ken Kaneshiro, Vice-Chairperson
Mr. David Greenwell, Board Member
Ms. Susan Lee Loy, Board Member
Mr. Jay Uyeda, Board Member
Mr. Quirino Antonio, Manager-Chief Engineer, Department of Water Supply
(ex-officio member)
Mr. Keith Okamoto, Deputy
Mr. Richard Sumada, Waterworks Controller
Mr. Daryl Ikeda, Chief of Operations
Ms. Kanani Aton, Public Information and Education Specialist
Ms. Julie Myhre, Operations Division
Mr. Kurt Inaba, Engineering Division
Mr. Carl Nishimura, Operations Division
Ms. Katherine Garson, Deputy Corporation Counsel
Mr. Steve Lim, Carlsmith Ball LLC
Ms. Nancy Cook Lauer, West Hawai‘i Today
Mr. Dan Bolton
CALL TO ORDER: 9:46 a.m.
CHAIRPERSON: Good morning. Will the public hearing of the Water Board on the proposed
Operating Budget and Capital Improvements Budget for the Department of
Water Supply for the Fiscal Year 2013-2014 please come to order. As a
reminder, I would like to ask you all to silence your cell phones, and if there is
public testimony, I’d like to limit testimony to three minutes.
My name is Arthur Taniguchi, Chairperson of the Water Board, and the
members of the Board and Staff that are here this morning…I’d like to
introduce the Board members, from the left to right, could you introduce
yourselves? (Each Board member does self-introduction: Jay Uyeda,
David Greenwell, Kenneth Kaneshiro, Susan Lee Loy.)
CHAIRPERSON: Thank you. The Water Board, under Section 8-2(c) of the Hawai‘i County
Charter shall adopt the Operating and Capital Improvements Budget for the
Department of Water Supply; and under the hearing and advertising provision
of Section 10-4, Hawai`i County Charter, did publish the public hearing notices
in the Hawai`i Tribune-Herald and in the West Hawai`i Today on March 10,
2013.
We are here this morning to accept testimony on the budgets. Is there anyone
in the audience who wishes to testify? (Pause)
There being none, I would like to entertain a motion to close the public hearing.
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MS. LEE LOY: So move.
MR. KANESHIRO: Second.
CHAIRPERSON: Meeting adjourned.
(Public Hearing adjourned at 9:47 a.m.)
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Secretary
The Department of Water Supply is an Equal Opportunity employer and provider.
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