2015-07-27 South Kohala Community Development Plan Action Committee Minutes

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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: July 27th, 2015 7 Call to order: 5:05 pm 8 Place: Waikoloa Village Association Community Room 9 68-1792 Melia Street, Waikoloa Village, HI 96738 10 Roll Call: 11 1Members present: Josephine (Jojo) Tanimoto, Diane Kaneali’i, Joel 12 Cohen, John Mueller, George (Robbie) Robertson, and Roger Harris. 13 2Planning Department: Deanne Bugado, Ali Catalano 14 3Council Members Present: Margaret Wille 15 STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC REGARDING ITEMS ON AGENDA 16 Margaret Wille announced that she brought materials regarding the following topics 17 that she is working on: The Ethics Bill; Proposed policies and goals for the General 18 Plan; Trash revenues bill (that actually passed); and what is being worked on for 19 adding a bus. 20 PRESENTATION 21 Diane Kanealii provided the Action Committee with an overview of the proposed 22 Aquaponics Project for the Kailapa Community Association. They have received a 23 small grant from the county for a food security project for the community, and they 24 chose to do it with aquaponics so they can return good stuff back into the soil. The 25 idea of the project is to begin with several tanks for the community which would be 26 put into a wind tunnel due to the harsh conditions in Kawaihae. They are looking 27 into starting out with 5 tanks, and with the funds derived from that, they will put 28 money aside to help pay for the playground and building maintenance, and the rest 29 would go into a pot to provide systems for homes. So in five years, they hope to 30 provide every home in Kailapa with an aquaponics system for food security. 31 Diane continued to go through her handout, which was distributed to the Action 32 Committee attached to their meeting documents for further details on the project. 33 ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS 34 1.Meeting minutes from June 22nd, 2015 - Joel Cohen made a motion to 35 approve the minutes. George Robertson seconded that motion. All in favor, 36 the motion was carried. 37 2.Staff provided the Action Committee with information regarding the Hilo 38 Landfill status from the Director of the Department of Environmental 39 Management (DEM). - Deanne explained that the DEM Director provided the 40 following information because she was not able to attend the meeting.