12-19-2011 SKCDP AC Minutes - Final

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SOUTH KOHALA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN ACTION COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES OF MEETING Held December 19, 2011 A regular meeting of the South Kohala Community Development Plan Action Committee was held on December 19, 2011. The meeting was called to order at 5:00 p.m. at The Lilly Yoshimatsu Senior Center, 67-1199 Mamalahoa Highway, Waimea, Hawaii, pursuant to notice. The following members of the Committee were present when the meeting was called to order: Mike Fischer John Hoover Margaret Horwatt Robin Inaba Chris Roehrig Committee members Nancy Alvord, Loreli Eberhardt and Achahn Schulze were absent, and there were no members of the public or from the Office of the Hawaii County Planning Department present. The Chairman called the meeting to order and noted that a quorum of the Committee was present. Under the circumstances, there were no statements from members of the public concerning items on the meeting agenda. The members of the Committee then considered the draft of the minutes of the meeting held on November 28, 2011. Upon motion duly made and seconded, the Committee approved the minutes of the regular meeting of the Committee held on November 28, 2011, in the form distributed to the members in advance of the meeting. The members then agreed to modify the order of the agenda for the meeting. The Committee then reviewed the schedule for meetings of the Committee during 2012 that had been adopted at the meeting held in November. It was noted that previously the Committee has annually held four meetings in each of Waimea and Waikoloa and two meetings in each of Puako and Kawaihae, but that the schedule adopted for 2012 provided for three meetings during the year in each of the four locations. Upon motion duly made and seconded and following discussion, the Committee voted unanimously to hold the January 2012 meeting as provided for in the schedule adopted at the November meeting but to reconsider the schedule of meetings for the balance of 2012 during the meeting to be held in January 2012. The Committee then discussed the need to fill vacancies on the Committee in a prompt and efficient manner. The Chair advised the Committee that he had been informed by Planning Department Project Manager Rosalind Newlon that an interview with a candidate to fill a vacancy was scheduled for January 11, 2011, with the three person interview panel to consist of a member of the Committee and two representatives of the Planning Department. Following discussion, the Committee directed the Chair to request that the interview panel consist of Ms. Newlon and two members of the Committee so as to ensure that all members of the interview panel are familiar with the Committees affairs and working 1