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<br /> <br /> <br />1 SOUTH KOHALA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN ACTION COMMITTEE <br />2 aka HUI KULEANA O KOHALA HEMA <br />3 southkohalaactioncommittee@gmail.com <br />4 County of Hawai’i <br />5 MINUTES <br />6 Meeting Date: May 23, 2016 <br />7 Call to order: 5:00 pm <br />8 Place: Waikoloa – Waikoloa Village Association Community Room <br />9 68-1792 Melia Street, Waikoloa Village, Hawai‘i 96738 <br />10 Roll Call: <br />11 1 Members present: John Mueller, George (Robbie) Robertson, Julia <br />12 Alos, Mark Gordon, Diane Kanealiʻi, and Josephine (Jojo) Tanimoto <br />13 2 Members absent/excused: Joel Cohen, Roger Harris, <br />14 3 Planning Department: Deanne Bugado <br />15 4 County of Hawaii: Kurt Inaba, Keith Okamoto, Margaret Wille <br />16 5 Public: Jonathan Scheuer, Richard Horn, Jennifer Grossart, David & <br />17 Terri Greenwell, Ruth Smith Parrish Canon, Lee Jeffers, Sharon Jeffers, <br />18 John McClain, <br />19 STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC REGARDING ITEMS ON AGENDA <br />20 None <br />21 PRESENTATIONS <br />22 The Department of Water Supply provided information regarding the Lālāmilo Well <br />23 upgrade. This is a developers’ project, which will “up-size” the well to bring the well <br />24 capacity up to the existing levels of the other wells in the area. This will allow the <br />25 system to be supported and improve the reliability of the system but will not <br />26 increase the overall available water units for the district. There is a twenty year- <br />27 long agreement with the developer for the water units allotted for the development <br />28 to be utilized. The discussion touched upon if the infrastructure was extended to <br />29 the Kawaihae residential homes if DWS would provide water. DWS welcomes <br />30 discussions with DHHL to provide water services to the DHHL-Kawaihae residential <br />31 community. <br />32 The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands through their consultant, Jonathan <br />33 Scheuer, shared the department’s perspective of the water needs and rights for <br />34 water in South Kohala District as well as studies which have been done regarding <br />35 available water in the area. Jonathan started off with providing a brief history of the <br />36 Hawaiian Homes Commission Act and what it means. He also provided information <br />37 regarding who are and how the Water Commission functions. <br />38 Both Jonathan and Keith (DWS) provided information regarding sustainable yields <br />39 for the aquafer system, recharge, what are water reservations and water <br />40 designation. Water designation has historically been pushed by the homesteaders. <br /> <br /> <br />