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Home My WebLink About2014-10-27 South Kohala Community Development Plan Action Committee Minutes 1 SOUTH KOHALA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN ACTION COMMITTEE 2 aka HUI KULEANA O KOHALA HEMA 3 southkohalaactioncommittee@gmail.com 4 County of Hawai’i 5 MINUTES 6 Meeting Date: October 27, 2014 7 Call to order: 5:05 pm 8 Place: Hokuloa Church 9 69-1600 Puako Beach Drive 10 Kamuela, Hawai‘i 96743 11 Roll Call: 12 1Members present: Josephine (Jojo) Tanimoto, Christopher (Kit) 13 Roehrig, Joel Cohen, John Mueller, Roger Harris, John Hoover, Anika 14 Glass 15 2Absent/Excused: 16 3Planning Department: Deanne Bugado, Noelani Wong 17 4County of Hawai’i: Margaret Wille 18 5Public in attendance: Diane Kaneali’i, Roger Kaneali’i, Joe Pickering, 19 Shawn James Levy, George Robertson 20 STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC REGARDING ITEMS ON AGENDA 21 Diane Kaneali’i advised on the status of the Kailapa project. The State Historic 22 Preservation Division has reviewed a report, and they are looking into three specific 23 sites on the property of concern, and there will be a site visit set up to determine 24 what is needed. Once completed then they will be able to submit the master plan to 25 the Planning Department for approval. The goal is to have approval by January 1. st 26 Shawn James Levy brought up concern of protecting agriculture lands in Pu’ukapu 27 from subdivision. There are lots for sale, and could be potential targets for 28 subdivision. He brought up the idea of having the county step in and put the funds 29 into conservation easement. Discussion continued about conservation easement on 30 agriculture property, and Levy advised he would look into the matter and return 31 with more information. 32 ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS 33 Christopher Roehrig made a motion to approve the minutes from the meeting on 34 July 28, 2014. Joel Cohen seconded that motion. Motion was carried unanimously th 35 and the minutes were approved as is. 36 BUSINESS OF COMMITTEE 37 1.SKCDP Implementation. Action Committee will continue ongoing review of 38 SKCDP Goals, Policies and Actions & discuss roles and responsibilities. 39 a.Update/Discussion of Agenda Items by Council Members: District 1 – 40 Valerie Poindexter and District 9 – Margaret Wille 41 b.Margaret Wille spoke in regards to capital improvement. She stated that 42 October is the time to be pushing the Planning Department on all CIP 43 project items, and that departments are supposed to have a budget report 44 ready for October 30. She suggested that someone from the Planning th 45 Department be present at the next meeting to update on all CIP status. 46 There was further discussion in regards to communications processes, 47 and Bill 281, and the PUD subdivision bill. Margaret Wille reiterated the 48 concerns that were discussed among the. 49 c.Capital improvement Plan (CIP). The Action Committee will review and 50 discuss the South Kohala Community Development Plan CIP project list 51 for submission to the Planning Department for consideration. Please see 52 attached for the Current Project List. 53 i.Roger Harris will be writing a letter to the Department of Public 54 Works to determine how much money is left for project spending, 55 and also what items are on the CIP list. 56 d.Discussion of Update Issues/Suggestions for the SKCDP General Plan 57 No updates. 58 e.Discussion Items proposed by Action Committee Member Kit 59 Roehrig 60 i.There was discussion as to whether there should be a committee 61 made up of representatives of all the Action Committees to meet 62 periodically. 63 A motion was made by Kit Roehrig to write a letter to the other 64 Action Committees asking if they are interested in developing an 65 island wide Action Committee forum. Joel seconded that motion. 66 Discussion continued, and the motion was carried with one 67 opposed,? Roger Harris 68 ii.There was discussion as to whether there should be a permanent 69 filing system to be made available to the public. 70 Kit Roehrig made a motion that he and Joel would meet as a 71 subcommittee to create and outline a permanent filing system. 72 They will present their outline to the Action Committee 10 days 73 before the next meeting and it will be on the agenda for review at 74 the meeting. …Joel Cohen seconded that motion and it was carried 75 unanimously. 76 iii.There was discussion whether to appoint a person monthly to 77 check the Action Committee’s email. 78 JoJo asked if Joel would be willing to do that and she appointed 79 him, and he agreed. 80 iv.Deanne Bugado spoke in regards to filling committee vacancies 81 and that she has not received any applications at this point in time. 82 Kit Roehrig agreed to write an article for North Hawaii News to 83 bring attention to the upcoming vacancies. 84 v.Discussion about obtaining a list of all pending bills before county 85 council. 86 The Action Committee determined that Margaret Wille’s email 87 blasts contain all the information that they need, and advised for 88 everyone to get on her email list. 89 f.Discussion Items proposed by Action Committee Member Jojo 90 Tanimoto 91 i.There was discussion of training needs of the AC members, and the 92 it was mentioned that there are various trainings that the county’s 93 Corporation Counsel’s Office offers. New members were given the 94 option to let Deanne know what they would be interested in 95 attending, and Deanne would let them know the training schedule. 96 Some training requests discussed are: 97 a.Land Laws 98 b.General Planning Department Application Process (and 99 specifically PUDs) 100 c.Sunshine Law 101 2.Sub-Committee Reports 102 a.Waikoloa – John Mueller discussed the brainstorm that occurred at 103 their last meeting and that the brainstorm would continue at their 104 next meeting. No formal updates. 105 b.Kawaihae - Josephine Tanimoto/John Mueller, no updates. 106 c.Puako - John Hoover 107 i.Puako Community Association met on July 7 to change its th 108 bylaws. It was made so that the group was now only open to 109 property owners and it is volunteer based, not mandatory 110 membership. 111 ii.UH continues to study water quality along the Puako Coast 112 iii.Coral Reef Alliance has secured funding to bring their clean 113 water projects for reefs program to Puako. 114 iv.a presentation funded from the National Park Service 115 predicting that by 2050, most of Puako would be underwater 116 v.discussion in regards to two permit issues: 117 1.Puako 1- question of how many water rights have been 118 approved for the development. 119 2.Puako 1010- status 120 vi.Status of Puako Beach Drive – 121 d.Waimea - Christopher Roehrig/Joel Cohen - Joel went to the Waimea 122 Community Association meeting where there was a presentation by 123 Dutch Kuyper of Parker Ranch in regards to a new alternative energy 124 resource called Paniolo Power. The goal is to create a micro grid on 125 the Big Island, primarily starting with Parker Ranch, with the ultimate 126 objective being to provide power to the west coast of north Hawaii 127 and possibly beyond that. A handout was distributed and it was 128 brought up that this might be something to get more information on 129 and possibly consider or support down the road 130 e.District-Wide – No updates 131 f.Long Term Education Planning - Joel Cohen discussed the educational 132 system and long-term goals. The topic of magnet schools was brought 133 up in passing. Overall, they are in the process of gathering information 134 and meeting with people and then they will be able to better evaluate 135 and make a long-term plan. 136 g.Other Reports – No updates. 137 i.Liaison Reports 138 1.Traffic Safety Committee 139 2.Waimea Community Association 140 3.Homestead Community Associations – Jojo Tanimoto 141 ii.SKCDP AC/PCDP AC 142 STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC REGARDING ITEMS ON AGENDA 143 ANNOUNCEMENTS 144 • Next Meeting November 24, 2014 – Waimea, Lilly Yoshimatsu Senior Center 145 (Waimea Senior Center) 146 ADJOURNMENT 147 Meeting adjourned at 7PM.