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<br />1 SOUTH KOHALA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN ACTION COMMITTEE <br />2 aka HUI KULEANA O KOHALA HEMA <br />3 <br />southkohalaactioncommittee@gmail.com <br />4 County of Hawai’i <br />5 MINUTES <br />6 Meeting Date: November 24, 2014 <br />7 Call to order: 5:05 pm <br />8 Place: Lilly Yoshimatsu Senior Center (Waimea Senior Center) <br />9 67-1199 Mamalahoa Highway <br />10 Waimea, Hawai‘i 96743 <br />11 Roll Call: <br />12 1Members present: Josephine (Jojo) Tanimoto, Christopher (Kit) Roehrig, Joel <br /> <br />13 Cohen, John Mueller, John Hoover, Anika Glass <br />14 2Absent/Excused: Roger Harris <br /> <br />15 3Planning Department: Deanne Bugado, Noelani Wong <br /> <br />16 4County of Hawai’i: Dave Hirt for Wille <br /> <br />17 5Public in attendance: Diane Kaneali’i, Roger Kaneali’i, Joyce O’Connor, David <br /> <br />18 Tarnas, Ruth Smith, Mike Luce, Maata Tukuafu, Keith Wallis <br />19 STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC REGARDING ITEMS ON AGENDA <br />20 Diane Kaneali’i posed questions regarding List of Applications attached to Agenda. <br />21 #1 What exactly are they changing? And #2/#3/#4) What is the current zoning and <br />22 how will these applications affect Ag zoning in those areas? <br />23 Mike Luce provided clarification regarding the proposed draft letter requesting the <br />24 availability/status of funds from the Department of Public Works for traffic study <br />25 projects in the Waimea/Kawaihae areas. Specifically between Lindsey Road and the <br />26 end of the County road. Traffic Safety committee was advised by Ron Thiel, DPW <br />27 that the start of any road project begins with an EA/EIS. Advised that this current <br />28 traffic safety project is currently not on the CIP project list and he urges it to be <br />29 added immediately for the safety of the community and school children. County is <br />30 moving toward putting in a crosswalk but drainage is an issue and an EIS must be <br />31 accomplished ASAP. <br />32 Joyce O’Connor requested information of where she could introduce on the STIP <br />33 program for the Kawaihae bypass. She is active on the SK traffic commission and <br />34 would like to address this CIP project. Jojo requested clarification if Gunner (Chair <br />35 of the SKTSC) submitted the proposed project as a CIP project to the County? Joyce <br />36 was unaware and asked if the two groups (SKTSC & SKCDPAC) could work together <br />37 to resurrect the project and place it back on the STIP list. <br /> <br />