2013-02-25 South Kohala Community Development Plan Action Committee Minutes

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South Kohala Community Development Plan Action Committee 1 County of Hawai‘i 2 MINUTES 3 Meeting Date: February 25, 2013 4 Call to Order: 5:19 pm 5 Place: Waikoloa Elementary School, Cafeteria 6 68-1730 Hooko Street 7 Waikoloa, Hawai‘i 96738 8 Roll Call: 9 1Members Present: Josephine (Jojo) Tanimoto, Christopher (Kit) Roehrig, John 10 Mueller, John Hoover, Michael (Mike) Fischer, 11 2Absent/Excused: Margaret Horwatt, Roger Harris, Fran Tabor, Robin Inaba 12 3Planning Department: Deanne Bugado 13 4County of Hawai‘i: Margaret Wille 14 5Public in attendance: Guido Giacometti, Todd Cales, Mike Shattuer, Cathey Tarleton, 15 Susan Fischer, Paul Fischer, Cindy Kester. 16 Prior to the Start of the meeting and prior to getting a quorum number of Action Committee 17 Members the present AC members and the public received a brief update presentation of the 18 efforts of the Anekona Ouli Kanehoa Volunteer Fire Department (VFD) Company (Guido 19 Giacometti, Todd Cales and Mike Shattuer). The non-profit company has received a fire truck 20 and land has been allocated for the development of a Garage/Storage Facility for the firefighting 21 equipment and vehicles for the volunteer firefighters. The review also covered the fundraising 22 efforts that have been and are being made for the development/construction of the facility. 23 STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC REGARDING ITEMS ON AGENDA 24 None 25 ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS 26 Minutes of the Meeting of January 28, 2013 were circulated. Mike Fischer motioned to approve 27 and Jojo Tanimoto seconded. Corrections made and unanimous approval given. 28 The Action Committee reviewed and discussed the Memorandum from the Planning Director 29 regarding Communications of the Action Committees. Concerns/Issues discussed: 30  There is a conflict between the letter and a determination made by Corporation Counsel 31 Bill Brilhante regarding whether or not correspondence needs to go thru the Planning 32 Department. Clarification made by staff that the letter meant to state copy be given to the 33 Planning Department. 34  The Committee has not received response to various requests (speakers and information) 35 made at Action Committee meetings. Staff responded that from this meeting forward, a 36 response will be given for requests made by the AC at the next scheduled AC meeting (if 37 not sooner). 38 Page 1 of 5