victory no thank you chair and thank you for giving me this up to share some opinions as well as thoughts this morning but let me start off on a sad note our nation again was rocked by a tragic event that happened a couple of days ago churches should be a safe haven churches should be somewhere we can reflect worship and more importantly feel safe with our families and our fellow parishioners unfortunate does this not happen nine people were killed and the sad sad chronology is again it falls under the hate crime this young man did not know these people yet spent an hour in the bible class with them before turning his weapon on them it's a sad day and i can only hope that all of us take a moment to reflect  individual that these heinous crimes will stop that people won't hate somebody because of your color your race your religion your gender they can learn to live and love each other and understand each other it's not easy we all have biases but if you're really in and you really believe in the almighty you'll always overcome and good things will come back so i hope and pray for those families that have lost loved ones that they find comfort in the good lord and those who surround them with comfort now i'd like to go into what i call more heart warming news i want to first of all say chair you as well as all the other seven council members here problem members worked very hard the past couple of months crafting a budget for which you my colleagues and the staff first of all put in and norma's hours worked very hard and crafted a budget that i think all the people healthy can be proud of oh yes maybe some won't like what we did or what we caught or what we added however i think we took the bull by the horns and took care of our core responsibilities for the people of my wee county i think that was first and foremost we also made impacts in keeping our tax base and i tax rates or not to keep just raising and raising our taxes for our people who are out there in many cases still struggling many have not felt the recovery that we talk about all the time in the aspects that the budget is done for a program which has been a core program in this community for many decades and i want to thank all of those who were involved will be involved in keeping our kid he's off the streets active physically and mentally each and every day during the summer beaches and parks offer free recreation and leisure to our residents and visitors and they become very crowded so safety is the most of importance take a note i asked everyone to drive carefully because children don't pay attention to where where the car is they'll run across the street between cars so please as they are on their bikes going to the parks walking to the beach please be extra cautious ladies and gentlemen it's day i know father's day and i was listening to so sixty six last night i think we spent about seventy percent seventy percent of what we spent for mother's day and this in that they were going all kinds and i kind of looked at my wife and i said so i guess dads are not that important i says and she turned to me she is it you care your son for nine months i got the point it was instantaneous and i got the point so to her and all the moms out there love and respect for them dads have a very happy father's day enjoy your family do something with your family if at all possible and like every one of us here spending time with our children and grandchildren is what we live for each and every day making this county a better place for all of our families to work to live and to be thank you chair for giving me this opportunity thank you for those heartwarming remarks and thoughtful comments of the earlier part  please proceed mr chair proceeding with the presentation of testimony on agenda items we've established limited telephone interactive communication that enables individuals from honolulu to provide testimony from our district office individuals who wish to offer testimony from honolulu and you should now sign up with district office staff individuals who wish to offer testimony in the chamber please sign up at the desk located in a floor lobby just outside the chamber door testimony at all locations is limited to the items listed on today's agenda pursuant to the rules of the counsel each testify or may be allowed to testify for up to three minutes when testifying please state your name and the name of any organization you represent home office please identify yourself and introduce your first test we have three individuals who have signed up to testify in the council chamber the first person to testify in the chamber is shelly black burn testifying on kind of communication fifteen dash one eighty one she will be followed by rosemary robins chair and council members my name is shelley blackburn chief operating officer of cali akeelah wholeness resource centers i've been at cockle for ten years because of the passion commitment and dedication that i've had and will always have in serving the people of mali county expect the homeless population sorry i'm testifying on behalf of the county communication fifteen we were the first and now the largest homeless service provider on mali every year cali archelaus provides housing to more than fifteen hundred individuals and families including more than four hundred children are why you cool facility was situation isabel beyond normal wear and tear not only are the buildings deter eating quickly but are becoming more and more visible and are creating serious safety concerns a principal purpose of c p g funding as  homeless persons and families is a high priority with this in mind we felt very confident in the c b d application we submit in in december of last year to improve our facilities and in turn improve the lives of our grant was nothing short of a blessing to caucus residents many previously have come before you and publicly testified about the significance and importance of this project for the improved over crumbling infrastructure through the very annoyance and time consuming task of preparing us to see the b g application recognizing the importance of the funding immediately reapply cockle received an e mail notifying us of a change in public hearing location this not even a courtesy call i understand there is a process that must be followed in c b d encompasses a whole range of eligible activities but it seems the end result the second time around the state is essentially the same with the exception of our facility now being excluded this exclusion is nothing short of a devastating to cockle its residents and ultimately the county with homelessness extremely growing on me this is not an outcome that will benefit the county and more importantly those in need i'm also a wife of a firefighter which i know is also in need of important findings however to my belief not as important as ours at this time it seems there were underlying political motivations that will never be fully understood by mere others that led to an unnecessary second round and our residents were the collateral damage in the visuals and found he's experiencing homelessness should not have to sacrifice their health and safety due to county politics along with the born and staff of cock or not be responsible for putting people in danger should the state of our facility continue her amy please we may be faced with making difficult decisions to close down buildings which will also further harm the county i understand there is very little that can be changed at this point but i hope that this time around our voices are chile heard and right decisions no this is decisions are truly mean for the best interests of the people of  any other are any other clarification needed members do not thank you very much for being here this morning thank you let's go to the next person to testify is rosemary robbins testifying on kind of communications fifteen dash one seventy seven and fifteen dash one seventy eight she will be followed by patricia could  when seventy seven is the direct report of supply transmitting the department of water supplies monthly so astri put and ground water use i took a look back again and see chapter eleven in our charter and it talks on page thirty one that it's not just use department of water supply shall implement the county's general plan and community plans and then affairs the department of water supply shall prepare and manually update a long range capital improvement program and updated water usage and development plan no way are we being educated as to what the development plan is to the degree that we should be what plan everybody asks i don't have an answer for that but if the department of water has something that would be easily put out by they would this would be a great forum for it to happen we have had a lot of other video presentations but as far as the scope of the plan i don't have a history of that so i went ahead and i got this fifteen one seventy seven yesterday again the folks on the seventh floor wonderful about providing that and it talks about how these areas in terms of a thousand times the number that i'm going to give you and since the water director mentioned h poco wells the day before yesterday at the water resources meeting i took a look at that and that means that you have one hundred sixty a million six hundred ten thousand million gallons a day that is supposed to be needed in order to meet the needs and yet when we look over these these are the last eleven months for may fifteenth the  a thousand times there was still a zero in terms of what it is that we have available for the upcountry people country people are really being deprived of what they need so heading on in that the department of water supply groundwater use for maui again shows major poco over here yet not even up to one percent that's not great for whatever it might be needed for the potable water and for the of the uses for water in the second one on page fifteen one seventy eight is reports of water use in the county of maui coming from the state commission of water resource management and when i took a look through that one it talks about categories that a not even answered the water level and the pumping status in here zero and when i looked at how that data comes into them those are predominantly self reporting from the geography use that a taking the water self reporting where's the connection on the state level to where we are here our own statistics are not compatible with each other let alone what's happening out here and most of that is pretty reflective of the plantation days as to who it is that has the water and how much they're taking there were intended to be trusted and again zero in the gauge method so if you get a blank form and you think oh great we're going to have all the data that we need and they have to make responsible and intelligent decisions and you have a zero zero zero zero it's something's wrong the little kids in school are going to say you know mrs robbins was the plant ballot question was the plan and remember that country water is primarily surface so if we're talking about the need for reservoirs and we've done that and continue to do that if we're not getting the water to put into the reservoir as that would be one answer it's not sufficient we need to get the water what are the sources that's right in the charter and we need to abide that so anything that can be done in order to educate the whole from unity to be able to have those out  print that are complete that have those in videos here when we come to the floor as far as the water is concerned and talking not just how much expense it's going to take in are primarily tax dollars to be able to meet that but we don't have the whole picture at least in a hopeful for match we're in trouble so let's get out of trouble thank you you miss robbins members any need for morning my name is patricia could is thank you for seeing me again today i'm here speaking on fifteen one eighty two which is northants amending three one four three which is the ordinance  the transition from fifteen to four to thirteen zero four for commercial ocean recreation activities the proposal suggests amending section seven but unfortunately that there is some confusion because the bill was actually drafted on  in an attempt to protect us to protect not only the industry but the county and the environment but the amendments there's been two amendments since the original proposal since the original three one four three and those amendments actually include protections for all of us and so deleting section seven actually removes the protection and has actually the opposite intent of the post meant resolution proposal so because the resolution proposal is based on outdated language we can't support the bill as it's drafted on kind of communication fifteen dash one eighty six the series back as the last individual who signed up to testify in the council chamber good morning mr chairman good morning council members i wasn't intending to even come to this meeting but i happened to be up at the county clerk's office and i thought i'll stop in and see what's going on here and i noticed that you have a proposed resolution and titled proposing an amendment to the revised charter of the county of maui as amended relating to article eleven and initiative and it concerns me because i haven't read in the mountain news anything about it of course they don't really report news much anymore but i was concerned because our initiative that passed and has been ignored by the county was difficult enough to pass if this resolution endeavors to make it more difficult to pass a citizens an initiative there will be a lot of people opposing that and i haven't yet had a chance to look at the resolution and see what it says i used to and some of you may remember i used to keep up pretty much up to date with what was going on in the council but i'm not able to do that anymore but this seems to me a like a vulnerable point that depending on what the content of the resolution is might be reducing the ability of the public to have their wishes known since the council and the mayor have made it pretty clear they are not in favor of citizen initiative so i hope to read the thing and i presume it's going to committee it better and not be passed on the floor in some kind of  some kind of expedited way so thank you i think it was raised back and this will be going to committee and it's actually an initiative had that word used but this is coming from the clerk  it's basically to correct clerical errors within article eleven of the charter and also to allow the withdrawal of signatures from the initial petition and from supplemental petitions received right now within the charter it references allowing withdrawal of signatures within fifteen days after filing of affidavit described in section eleven two section eleven two references the formation of the initiative petitioners committee  the petitioners committee has up to one hundred eighty days to file with the county clerk the petitions forming the initiative petition fifteen days from the formation of the initiative petitioners committee would not allow individuals who signed let's say one hundred twenty days into the process if they would so like to remove their signature from the petition this is something that we encountered on a number of occasions during the initiative process where individuals wish to withdraw their signature from the petition but because of the clerical error within the charter it would not allow us to withdraw their signature from the petition secondly it also allows individuals to withdraw their signature from the supplemental petitions received by our office to fulfill the requirements of signatures valid signatures received right now the charter is silent as to little proceed mr chair proceeding with minutes you have before you for approval the minutes of the regular meeting of april seventeenth two thousand and fifteen public hearing of april twenty third two thousand and fifteen and public hearing of april twenty ninth two thousand and fifteen when they get your move to approve the regular me meeting minutes of april seventeenth two thousand and fifteen as well as the public hearing of april twenty third two thousand and fifteen and the public hearing april twenty ninth two mr chair proceeding with kind of communications you had before you kind of communication fifteen to one seventy five from the director of finance transmitting to the council seventy three contracts for grants for the month ending april two thousand and fifteen mr goodman thank you chair i move to file county communication fifteen one seventy five is the second the motion we have a motion from mr grossman and a second mr victory no any further discussion thank you chair this communication is from the director of finance transmitting a summary of report listing seventy three contracts and grants for april two thousand and fifteen the reference transmittal items are for filing with the office of the county clerk and available for review any member with concerns over any of the i think it's your kind of intrigued by contract see five four seven zero two and it's in reference to m s for permitting and stormwater management plan by public  works the amount there is a hundred and one thousand plus dollars for this so it's kind of a significant amount of money and also falls into the parameters of my standing committee so i thought perhaps  if there's a way to get sent into committee to just take a look see and see what is this about without objections we will have that the stated contract sent to miss cochran's committee any objections thank you very much members and share thank you and the remainder will go to the remainder of the communication will be filed any other requests for contracts to be sent to committee coach and you have your thank you chair and i was just reading the communication but and heard letter briggs's resignation her handwritten letter and it seems pretty heartfelt and it in a way kind of sad because it sort of mentions that the chairman of this committee seen continued slander of her purse personally and her lack of respect of her personal life sort of had something to do with her resigning so i don't know there's always two sides to every story a doubt but it was sort of heart breaking to kind of read those words in her letter of resignation so hopefully the administration or whoever is in charge here can possibly look into that and hopefully those types of situations don't occur in our people who volunteered their time to us to provide a service to this community thank you  kind of communication fifteen dash one seventy seven from the director of water supply transmitting to the council the department of water supplies monthly source report and gram what are you support for the month ending may two thousand and fifteen the spices thank you very much chair i moved to file th available thank you thank you any further discussion seen done all those in favor please signify by saying right those opposed say no as your passive eight eyes or a nose and when excused mr clerk you have before you kind of communication fifteen dash one seventy eight from the director of water supply transmitting to the council the state of commission on water resources management water use reports for april two thousand and fifteen for all routine report that we received and it's filed and if anyone wants to really take a look at it it's available thank you thank you any further discussion mr couch thank you mr chair and i don't have a problem with following this but i would like the water director to kind of take a look at one of the the pages unfortunately the pages are numbered but it's the well number six five three two eight zero four eight holy m too and it shows that it has thirty thousand four hundred and thirty six million gallons a day i don't think we have that much water on this island so i think there's a problem in the reporting and they may want to check that monitor so it's nothing not worth going to committee on it it's just that the maybe the director can let the state know that there might be an error with that one letter thank you too thank you for any further discussion this by so sure i'll be very happy to call this to mr taylor's attention and see if there's anything we need to look at thank you thank you any further discussion chair yes men and i think this is for beisel also but this is a report there actually is quite new in a sense of us receiving and it had been quite curious to me on some of these numbers including the one that mr coach had mentioned because i'm looking at wells in the west my area where at says zeros but for me i beg to differ that they're not drawing water so i just i don't know maybe his base if this could be item to maybe take a better a deeper look at him and have a director here and if it's it was benign then you know the great but i think i kind of have some questions raising my eyebrows here looking at some of these figures so i would like a little better explanation i guess also how to read this does it relate to what's you know happening out there and then usage and what have you so i for me i like to get a deeper very you know it's explained out for really simply but there's just things that i personally have questions but i can also i guess talk to director to misplace a chair i have no objection if you want to refer this to my committee however i will tell you that i think probably a meeting with the back with the director can is that he's always available in more than willing to meet with anybody who wants to meet with him but you know i do have a very full agenda and we're working on some very very critical issues right now so ever you know i'll do my best to schedule it if that's what the council wants i serve it you know with the pleasure of my colleagues on this cochran  next report go through the committee for review ok that's fine thank you and thank you very much any further discussion seen none all those unfavorably signify by saying i i was opposed say no but you're passive with zero knows what excuse mr clerk you have before you kind of communication fifteen dash one seventy nine from counsel chair white transmitting to the county clerk a proposed resolution and titled rescheduling the consul's july seventeenth two thousand and fifteen mr victory no goodman thank you chair in accordance with the rule to be the rules of the council which authorizes the council by resolution to reschedule a regular meeting for a different date or place within the same line the council members will be attending the two thousand and fifteen national associations of counties annual conference and exposition in charlotte north carolina during the week of july twelfth two thousand and fifteen rescheduling the council's regular meeting of july seventeenth two thousand and fifteen to july twenty fourth two thousand and fifteen would allow for greater participation by the council members at the neko conference thank you chair thank you members any further discussion no further discussion before you kind of communication fifteen dash one eight zero from the chair policy an intergovernmental affairs committee transmitting to the council chair floor amendment to bill fourteen two thousand and fifteen and titled a bill for an ordinance adopting the state fire code to certain amendments there to require only establishment utilizing festival seating with an occupant load of two hundred or more to install fire sprinklers and to exempt agricultural subdivisions that consist of parcels of one acre or more from the requirement of multiple access roads for new subdivisions  work together so it would make good sense if we could do it all one time that's the pleasure of mike my colleague without objection it will move this to the to do with bills fourteen and objections members thank you so moved or so so ordered i should say mr clerk mr chair proceeding with kind of communications for referral the following kind of communications are recommended for referral to the following committees as noted to your budget finance committee kind of communication fifteen to twenty one from the cd b g program manager transmitting to the council a proposed resolution entitled authorizing the filing of an application with the department of housing and urban development united states of america for a grant under the community development block grant program  academic development energy agricultural recreation committee kind of communication fifteen dash one and two from the mayor transmitting to the council a proposed bill entitled a bill for an ordinance amending ordinance number thirty one forty three relating to chapter five point two for my country code relating to ocean recreational activity business permits and chapter thirteen point zero for my county code relating to recreational area regulation it's your policy and intergovernmental affairs committee kind of communication fifteen desh one and three for the director of finance transmitting to the a proposed bill intitled a bill for an ordinance authorizing the mayor of the county of maui to enter into an intergovernmental agreement with employees retirement system of the state of hawaii relating to the acquisition of a governmental accounting standards board statement number sixty eight report kind of communication fifteen dash one eight four from the director of finance transmitting to the council a proposed bill entitled a bill for an ordinance authorizing the mayor of the county of maui to enter into an intergovernmental agreement with the office of the auditor state of hawaii to audit the schedule of  employees retirement system of the state of hawaii or else kind of communication fifteen to twenty five from council chair white transmitting to the county clerk a proposed resolution and titled proposing an amendment to the revised charter the county of one thousand nine hundred three as amended relating to article eleven initiative kind of communication fifteen to twenty six from council member college transmitted to the council chair proposed resolution and titled amending rule ten rules of the council relating to roll call voting members are there any  objections to the to the referrals to a committee as read by the court so those will be sent to the committees as read to clerk mr chair proceeding with key number two three dash nine dash zero two call in zero three zero portion and to allow limit of sixty feet on a portion of tax map key number two three dash nine zero zero two call in zero seven six  excuse me bill forty six twenty fifteen past first reading it to me twenty six twenty fifteen meeting following this meeting it was discovered that do you agree moments which need to be recorded with the bureau of conveniences prior to second reading pursuant to quality code university old muted a reference exhibit contained the property description your four new unilateral agreements were necessary and have since been obtained from the landowners the new unilateral agreement dated june through twenty fifth include and incorporate other non substance of revisions bill forty six twenty fifteen cannot be considered on second and final reading into a thank you members for their discussion carroll's description of the amendment it also included to direct the clerk to record a new unilateral agreement just wanted to get clarification from the members that that is part of that motion proceeding with unfinished business you have before you bill number fourteen two thousand and fifteen entitled a bill for an ordinance adopting the state fire code with certain amendments there too and mr charles just note for the members that we also have kind of communication fifteen dash one eighty mr victory no thank you at the meeting of april seventh two thousand and fifteen the council passed bill fourteen on first reading to adopt the state fire code which  the county fire court at that meeting there were two concerns reached if this body agrees i would like to address and vote on each concerned separately so  double check lieutenant scott english is here today to explain the effects on the proposed amendments if necessary so if you know objection i would like him to come up to the podium i mean to the administration area if there are questions specifically on the amendments with your permission which the chair members do have questions on the amendments would look like clarification i think they've been ok you provided a good explanation booking so let me start and then again if we need misting machine is listening this is here to help us one concern was related to six to sixteen point zero four c points three zero zero subsection thirteen point three zero point two point eight relating to existing assembly occupants during the community discussion the fire department stated there was very few establishments that would be affected by this amendment but agreed to let us  amendment to this section therefore i move to a man bill fourteen two thousand and fifteen by amending section sixteen point zero four c point zero three zero zero subsection thirteen point three point two point eight point one of the county of fire called the strike they exist in language and insert the following an existing assembly occupancy that is allowed to serve by an approved supervised automatic sprinkler system in accordance to the national fire protection association act thirteen has to chair a second with ok the possibility of an assembly occupancy that is allowed to serve called that removes its tables and chairs and utilizes festival seating which could allow for more than twice its  occupant party targeting alcohol serving assemblies that would that want to utilize festival seating only would eliminate any me and immediate need for installation of fire sprinklers  existing assembly occupancies this will also place the burden of sprinkler fire sprinkler protection up on the proprietors and owners if they want to increase the occupant load to exceed two hundred persons by removing tables and chairs and serving alcohol so again this was really targeting in the area of alcohol so that churches and schools and other facilities that have  different festivals can put festival seating and allow them to not have to go through this change in the court so that was what the whole purpose of this if you have any questions i'm open to any questions from  again with anything the shia to clarify if there's any need for clarification thank you rick you know mr couch thank you and i just wanted to clarify that the motion as read is actually the language in the county council will come back to order it will be proceeding with the next minute mr green no thank you chair the other concern was related to section sixteen point zero one c point four four zero subsection eighteen point two point three six point two of the county fire code with regard to multiple access rules for subdivisions an exemption was needed to be added for agricultural on the number of parcels but also the density of the subdivision a subdivision of small size parcels with high density would be more than likely required to have required total evacuation in the event of a catastrophic emergency that subdivisions that consist of through a larger size parcels might be less than city would not therefore i move to a manned bill fourteen two thousand and fifteen by amending section sixteen point zero four c four four four zero subsection eighteen point two point three point six point two of the fire called the exemption to read as follows agricultural subsidies subdivision that consist of parcels one more would be exempt mr cherry second oh thank you thank you very much and by mr victory in a second by mr couch and again for the discussion real quickly i think my explanation clarify stat agricultural subdivisions agricultural lots would not be required to have multiple exits from their their properties and i think the fire department totally supported that in fact this was again like i said lots that exist today that were prior to when we changed to two acres and to be totally fear you would not be doing two acres you still make the one acre lots be required to have multiple exodus from their property so that's the reason thank you thank you thank you any further discussion members see none all those in favor leasing defined by saying i can't believe we're back to the main motion as amended yes as amended i think i've discussed it everybody so i would call on my colleagues for their consideration on the motion thank you any further discussion on the main motion members for being here this morning we are adjourne