2014-06-23 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 County of Hawai‘i 4 MINUTES 5 Meeting Date: June 23, 2014 6 Call to Order: 5:02 pm 7 Place: Lilly Yoshimatsu Senior Center (Waimea Senior Center) 8 67-1199 Mamalahoa Highway 9 Waimea, Hawai‘i 96743 10 Roll Call: 11 1Members Present: Josephine (Jojo) Tanimoto, John Hoover, Christopher (Kit) Roehrig, 12 Joel Cohen, John Mueller, Roger Harris 13 2Absent/Excused: 14 3Planning Department: Rosalind (Roz) Newlon 15 4County of Hawai‘i: Dave Hirt, Margaret Wille 16 5 Public in attendance: Sierra Tobiason, Diane Kanealii, Aric Arakaki, Toni Withington 17 STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC REGARDING ITEMS ON AGENDA 18 Diane Kanealii requested that the AC put on next month’s agenda that the SKCDP AC adopting some 19 of the policies from the NKCDP AC. 20 ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS 21 A motion was made by Joel Cohen to amend the order of the agenda and move the subcommittee report 22 by Toni Withington as Presentation No. 3. The motion was seconded by Roger Harris and passed with 23 a unanimous vote. 24 PRESENTATION 25 Aric Arakaki from the National Park Service did a presentation on the organization’s efforts to work on 26 the Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail. The trail was designated in the year 2000 to create a national 27 trail from the northernmost tip to South Point, the Volcano’s National Park, so roughly two-thirds of 28 the Hawai‘i Island, and that the system of trails includes mauka-makai trails. He said the primary 29 mission is to preserve and open up access ancient and historic trails. 30 Aric provided the AC with an overview of the staff and board of the Ala Kahakai Trail Association and 31 provided some general introduction regarding the communities and organizations that they work with. 32 Aric discussed several segments/projects of the trail that the service is working on and then provided an 33 update on Kohala Kai public access plan. He discussed the original alignment of the trail and how the 34 developer built another trail and how they are now working to retain the original alignment and create a 35 conservation easement. 36 Aric discussed the Highways Act of 1893 and said that is way to preserve access and a way for the 37 State to reassert its ownership. Trails identified by the Na Ala Hele or the within the National Parks are 38 the trail systems that are managed by the National Parks and are open to the public. 39 40 Page 1 of 4