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Home My WebLink About2015-06-22 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 DRAFT 6 Meeting Date: June 22, 2015 nd 7 Call to order: 5:00 pm 8 Place: Lily Yoshimatsu Senior Center (Waimea Senior Center) 9 67-1192 Mamalahoa Highway 10 Waimea, Hawaii 96743 11 Roll Call: 12 1Members present: Josephine (Jojo) Tanimoto, Diane Kaneali’i, Joel 13 Cohen, John Mueller, George (Robbie) Robertson, and Roger Harris. 14 2Planning Department: Deanne Bugado, Ali Catalano 15 3Public in attendance: Mike Luce 16 STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC REGARDING ITEMS ON AGENDA 17 None. 18 ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS 19 1.Meeting minutes from May 18, 2015 20 Corrections for the minutes were recommended. John Mueller made a 21 motion to approve these minutes with the suggested amendments, and Joel 22 Cohen seconded that motion. The motion was carried unanimously. 23 2.Elections of the Chair and Vice Chair 24 Joel Cohen nominated John Mueller as Chair. George Robertson seconded 25 that motion. All in favor, while John Mueller abstained, and the motion was 26 carried. Diane Kaneali’i volunteered as Vice Chair. 27 John Mueller explained that he will provide a format of how he will run 28 meetings, which includes time restraints. He explained that he prefers 29 written reports as well. 30 BUSINESS OF COMMITTEE 31 1.Update/Discussion of Agenda Items by Council Members: District 1 – 32 Valerie Poindexter and District 9 – Margaret Wille 33 None. 34 2.Subcommittee Reports 35 a.Long Term Education Planning – Joel Cohen 36 Joel explained that he would like this committee to meet at least once a 37 month to collect date and come up with recommendations. 38 John Mueller suggested contacting Roger Harris to let him know that 39 they are going to have a meeting and that they’d like to know what his 40 ideas are. 41 b.General Plan Comprehensive Review – Jojo Tanimoto, Joel Cohen, John 42 Mueller – The Subcommittee will report on discussions on potential 43 amendments and comments to the General Plan Comprehensive Review 44 which will be forwarded to the Planning Department. 45 John Mueller reported on the Waikoloa Community Meeting regarding 46 the General Plan Update and he directed everyone to his hand out “South 47 Kohala Community Turns Out to Comment on the County General Plan.” 48 Joel Cohen reported that he had a meeting with Margaret Wille at the 49 Waimea Civic Center. There were 30 people in attendance and most of 50 them were directly involved with organizations. He said they spoke 51 about cultural education, renewable energy, recycling, education, 52 farming, low cost housing, pedestrian trails, countywide transportation, 53 water, and shelters. He said the bottom line is that there is a lot of 54 participation from people and a lot of enthusiasm. 55 Jojo Tanimoto had no report. Diane Kaneali’i asked Jojo if there had been 56 any meetings scheduled to meet in Kawaihae, and Jojo explained that 57 they originally started out meeting there, but no one came to those 58 meetings. Diane explained that she had not been aware of any meetings, 59 and said that it’s hard to participate when no one is being informed. 60 They continued to discuss the subcommittee, and Diane Kaneali’i 61 volunteered to assist Jojo with the General Plan Update Subcommittee 62 and the Kawaihae Liaison Group. 63 c.Other Reports – 64 There was some clarification and discussion in regard to the letter Diane 65 drafted to simplify the process of getting information from other 66 community meetings. Diane clarified the need of a list of who to send this 67 letter to. John Mueller asked each of the members to think about the 68 community, and what are some groups that they feel would be 69 interested in sharing their minutes. Joel Cohen brought up the idea of 70 having each member having point of contacts throughout the community 71 to create a communication network. 72 Jojo asked that they have a discussion on changing the password on the 73 email address next time. John brought up the G-Mail account, and that 74 there is the issue of the Sunshine Law. He asked Deanne Bugado to get 75 the password from Kit Roehrig. 76 i.Liaison Reports – 77 1.Waikoloa – No update. 78 2.Puako – George Robertson explained that they are still 79 working on the plan for the wastewater system and working 80 with consultants to determine the recommended plan of 81 action. 82 3.The Action Committee went on to discuss the recent article in 83 West Hawaii Today explaining that authority of Puako Road 84 has been transferred to the State. Robbie requested that item 85 number 3 on their list of Issues and Suggestions for the SKCDP 86 General Plan be removed since that item is no longer relevant. 87 4.Waimea / Waimea Community Association – Joel Cohen 88 explained that he wasn’t able to attend the last meeting but 89 that on the 2 Thursday in July, the Planning Director will be nd 90 coming to the Waimea Community Center to talk about the 91 General Plan. 92 5.Kawaiehae / Homestead Community Associations – Jojo 93 Tanimoto reported that there was a notice for the makai lots 94 for water conservation. They are now being limited because 95 Parker Ranch is being repaired. She reported that the Puako 96 kapu report for the Waimea Nui Park is moving along. She 97 explained that she hasn’t attended the meeting for Kawaihae, 98 but there is a notice in the paper for a liquor license for a new 99 bar that’s going to be opening up in the industrial area. The 100 meeting is on August 8 by the Liquor Department. th 101 6.Diane added that one thing they are working on is an 102 community aquaponics project. This is a county funded 103 project, and they’ll be putting aquaponic tanks in 10 homes 104 the first year, until everyone who wants an aquaponic system 105 in their home has one. John Mueller asked if the person who 106 is spearheading this project would be interested in sharing 107 with the Action Committee. Diane explained that she’s 108 spearheading it, and she would be happy to give a 109 presentation at the next meeting. George Robertson asked if 110 they considered using the water from the Kihena Ditch. Diane 111 explained that they had a water feasibility study done. The 112 report that they got back was information from the 60s. She 113 explained the well has been degraded since it was built in the 114 90s, and it needs to be desalinated. Robbie asked if it would 115 make sense to redevelop that ditch. Diane said that this is 116 something they are looking at as a community, but the county 117 does not have jurisdiction of those lands. 118 7.Jojo asked that on the CIP project list, that number 4 be 119 changed to “Traffic Circulation Study” instead of Waimea 120 Transit Hub. 121 8.District Wide – No Updates – Discussion of issues occurred 122 earlier. 123 9.Traffic Safety Committee – None 124 STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC REGARDING ITEMS ON AGENDA 125 None. 126 ANNOUNCEMENTS  127 Next Meeting July 27, 2015 – Waikoloa – Waikoloa Village Association 128 Community Room  129 George Robertson asked if he had a section for New Business, where would such 130 items be introduced during the meetings? Deanne explained that if there needs 131 to be a discussion scheduled for the next meeting and to be put on the next 132 agenda, this would be the time to do it. George explained that there is a topic of 133 transferring waste and the route that it will take. It was decided that the Action 134 Committee would like to have an update from waste management on transfer 135 route of waste disposal.  136 John Mueller invited the members to have announcements of anything 137 happening in the community going forward in this section of the agenda.  138 Jojo Tanimoto announced that on Wednesday, the office of Mauna Kea 139 Management is meeting at Hawaiian Homelands at 5 o’clock. Diane clarified that 140 it’s Tuesday in Kona, Wednesday in Hilo, and Thursday in Waimea. This meeting 141 is to discuss how UH should manage the mountain. 142 ADJOURNMENT 143 Diane Kaneali’i made a motion to adjourn, Jojo seconded that motion. The motion 144 was carried unanimously and adjourned at 6:34 PM.