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Home My WebLink About2016-03-28 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: March 28, 2016 7 Call to order: 5:00 pm 8 Place: Waimea – Lilly Yoshimatsu Senior Center 9 67-1199 Mamalahoa Highway, Waimea, Hawaii 96743 10 Roll Call: 11 1Members present: John Mueller, Diane Kanealiʻi, Mark Gordon, Julia 12 Alos, George (Robbie) Robertson, Joel Cohen, and Josephine (Jojo) 13 Tanimoto 14 2Members absent/excused: Roger Harris, 15 3Planning Department: Deanne Bugado 16 4County of Hawaii: Margaret Wille 17 5Public: Susan Wells Fischer, David Tarnas, Kawena Gomes, Bob Simms 18 The Chair introduced new Action Committee members Julia Alos and Mark Gordon. 19 Short introduction statements were made by the new members and then each of the 20 existing members. 21 STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC REGARDING ITEMS ON AGENDA 22 David Tarnas thanked the members for their service and welcomed the new 23 members. 24 PRESENTATION 25 Susan Fischer, a member of the Public Access, Open Space & Natural Resources 26 Preservation Commission (PONC) provided the Action Committee with a brief 27 presentation about the Commission and nomination of properties by the public for 28 2015. 29 The Committee spoke with Susan more specifically over the process of nominating 30 the surf park near the Kawaihae Harbor. Members of the surf club were present to 31 provide some information and the committee encouraged the club to keep the AC 32 informed so that they could make comment/recommendations on the proposed 33 nomination when they could. 34 ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS 35 Meeting minutes from February 22, 2016 36 Robbie Robertson made a motion to approve, and Diane Kaneali’i seconded that 37 motion. All in favor and the motion was carried unanimously. 38 39 BUSINESS OF COMMITTEE 40 1.Reports – 41 a.Liaison Reports 42 1.South Kohala Traffic Safety Committee – Jojo Tanimoto – written 43 report reviewed 44 2.Joel Cohen led a discussion regarding subcommittees with the Action 45 Committee. He relayed his concept for the creation of new subcommittees 46 as drafted in a written report submitted to the AC. 47 The AC discussed the existing district areas as established by the CDP and 48 how/why the liaison groups were created. Concerns were raised to the 49 benefit of creating new district-wide subcommittees in addition to the area 50 liaison groups. 51 Staff relayed concern over the proposed permit review subcommittee as the 52 report proposes be the process of the review and potential sunshine law 53 conflicts. 54 Diane made a motion to table further discussion and action to a future 55 meeting, Robbie seconded the motion. Motion passed 6-1 (Approved: Diane, 56 Robbie, Joel, Julia, Mark and John; Nay: Jojo). At Joel’s request this will be on 57 the July, 2016 agenda. Joel requested comments/suggestions regarding this 58 agenda be sent to staff so that he can incorporate into his revision of this 59 proposal. 60 Discussion also included information that the existing subcommittees for 61 Education and General Plan Update has not been meeting and does not seem 62 to be working on any actions. 63 Joel also provided the AC with information the update report/presentation 64 by the Department of Water Supply to the Waimea Community Association 65 on March 3. Topics included: Water Conservation Notice and the following rd 66 DWS Projects (Waimea Water Treatment Plant Upgrades, Waikoloa 67 Reservoir No. 1 repairs, Puakō waterline replacement, and well repair 68 status). 69 3.Margaret Wille provided the AC with an update/discussion of the following: 70 a.Budget discussions will be starting soon April 13-15 – important for the 71 AC’s to input on CIP projects 72 b.General Plan Update discussion with the Council 73 c.County’s Revenue Stream Information 74 d.Creation of a County Department of Agriculture 75 e.Status of the Police Station in Waikoloa 76 f.Styrofoam Bill 77 STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC REGARDING ITEMS ON AGENDA 78 David Tarnas provided a hard copy of the pdf presentation that the Department of 79 Water Supply made to the Waimea Community Association so that staff can send out 80 scanned copy to the AC; At the South Kohala Traffic Safety Committee it was stated 81 that in a couple of months there will be Department of Transportation Highways 82 presentation/discussions with the community regarding the Waimea “mini-by- 83 pass”; Provided some information/suggestions regarding the negotiation for the 84 surf park; Suggested to the committee to check out the website for the Kauai 85 County’s General Plan Update process – PlanKauai.com. 86 ANNOUNCEMENTS  87 Next Meeting May 23, 2016 – Waikoloa – Waikoloa Village Association 88 Community Room 89 ADJOURNMENT 90 The meeting was adjourned at 6:55 PM. 91 Respectively submitted by Deanne Bugado, Planning Department.