following my ode to coffee as well as the night before a budget i would like to add to my series of poems this is entitle labor day so labor day officially ends summer what a bummer i can hear them saying as those who work enjoy their final fling it's like the closing of the curtain daisies give way to our certain labor is a blessing and a curse as one mu work to live and live to work better jobs to get up for or worse on the whole with no work you'd go preserve buster those who bear the daily burden and blessed are those who stand strong when life is uncertain let every worker earn a living wage and every family have enough to eat there be let there be a right to earn a living and the ability to advance all who wish to work should have that chance remember that that dignity requires doing working labor in a role most common to the so people work people play that's why we have labor day plumbers bakers painters vets fishermen with giant nets firefighters engineers barbers snipping with their shears teachers waiters nurses cooks authors writing exciting books carpenters and deputies people who take care of bees no  you do there is one thing always true everyone needs to rest in order to be the best long may your labor as something you love awakening daily to passion and pleasure when you find a job that fits like a glove i wish all many blessings this labor day weekend spend time with your family and i hope you find a friend be safe and m resolutions you have before you ceremonial resolution and title congratulating the central east molly major all stars for winning the twenty sixteen hawaii state little league baseball division i would like the resolution to be read in its entirety please yes mr corker is pursued resolution entitled congratulating the central east molly major all stars for winning the twenty sixteen hawaii state little league baseball division championship whereas the central east mali major all stars are white look who based team of eleven and twelve year olds participated in the twenty sixteen international tournament for the little league baseball division also known as the major division whereas after claiming the district title on mali the central east mali all stars advanced to the state championship in  here on july twenty sixth twenty sixteen whereas the central mali all stars then went on to represent at the west regional in san bernardino california from august seven to thirteen twenty sixteen and whereas the central mali all stars beat mountain ridge nevada eight to zero in the opening game in san bernardino and then defeated snow canyon utah five to two before out of the west regional with the two into mark where as the central east mali all stars finished the twenty sixteen international tournaments with an outstanding record of eight two two and whereas the california and unfortunately not moving past san bernadino but you know in future years i believe this team and others will continue to me very proud the coach is jamie  his work with the r p t division and just another shining example of coaches that work within our county system and give back to the community in many many forms you know there was a lot of hard work a lot of dedication by the players and coaches to get to this level and also i want to congratulate the parents and the boosters and all the supporters who also are behind them one hundred percent not only being there in spirit physically and as well as financially but being there in their lives each and every day gentlemen boys i will ask you never to forget your parents your coaches and your supporters because they help make you a better player continue to work hard continue to dedicate yourself to your goal whatever it may be the world's a big place it's a big ball field and who knows what position you'll play in that ball field one day i want to game congratulate all of you wish you continued success in your future and that thank you very much on behalf of my county for making us proud as players coaches and as family the especially to the players you've got to thank your parents thank your coaches but also you learned a lot just to be a member of a team you learn a lot about teamwork and i will a lot about what it takes to  move forward both as individuals and as a team so if i could leave you with anything those thoughts to remember teamwork is very important hopefully you learned a really good lesson there and it was wonderful watching you guys on t v we were watching in members office and it was it was fun to watch so congratulations thank you mr council members any further discussion on this resolution see none all those in favor policing it by my saying i will write those opposed say no as your pastor with eight eyes and one excused mr clear for the record resolution sixteen dash one  you guys if you like come back over here please do me and you guys can all assemble right here in the back again jamie i know you're going to say a few words so on behalf of my county myself all my council member my fellow members there we'd like to say congratulations once again for a job well done and continue success and thank you very much for what you do to help these young men become better young men thank you first of all like to thank the corporation also for recognizing us the kids like you said they did a fabulous job and you know it's it's something that you can't really explain but it's something that the kids experience that i believe that will help them for the rest of their lives and i believe this is the at this division this is the best team has done in the west regional a son playing on this team and you know i didn't even think for once in my lifetime that i was going to be able to experience this and for this i remember for the rest of my life as well as these kids and talk about this will make them successful by experiencing this experience i believe and it's something that nobody can take away from them and  appreciate molly supporting us and cheering for us and we were cheering for the other teams as well you know big league and they did great as well so it was a good summer for for baseball and basically like mr victory i said i think there are going to be better summers to come and i think that not only my coaching staff but the parents and everybody else that made it possible for these kids to experience what they did thank you tournaments for the literally big league baseball division and whereas the mali all stars had a five to one record at the west regional tournament in berman can washington from july eighteenth to twenty three twenty sixteen and earned a spot in the big league world series after defeating thousand california three toes three two two on july twenty third twenty sixteen in whereas the molly all stars campaign ship at the big league world series on august first twenty sixteen in south carolina with four to one victory over tarpon springs florida and whereas in the nationally televised begley world series championship game on august second two thousand and sixteen molly all stars represented the united states falling to tower one taiwan six two two and whereas the experienced mali all stars team includes former award winning mali interscholastic league players former participants in the twenty four jean senior lead world series and players returning to mali from the summer after the freshman season of college baseball dedication and team spirit of the molly all stars have bought pride and honor to the people of the county of maui now therefore be resolved by the council of the county in maui one that are hereby congratulates to mali big league all stars for winning the two thousand and sixteen united states championship at the big league world series and to that certified copies of this resolution be transmitted to the molly all stars players coaches and manager and the honorable schools including college as you say heard in their resolution to work together with their coaches to play an intense series of games to win the regional championship they then went on to play the great play great baseball at the big league world series earning the us championship and competing for a world championship all of this on national t v to live their manager steve lays says their success is due in large part to their confidence in each other and their willingness to  selfishly contribute to their in an individual talent to make the team great there are lessons here that these young men will take into college and beyond the value of committing to hard work at practice supporting the members of their team and demonstrating respect for everyone associated with the game we command the courage and confidence that to six for you from our small island to compete at national and international levels with the support of their coaches family and the community as mr vick you know said it was a good summer for  maui little league and maui in general is fantastic this is to be able to see all of those games these outstanding young men have represented maui and the state of hawaii with pride i asked the members for their full support of this resolution thank you m couch members any further discussion of mr victory and yes mr j i will echo the same sentiments as my colleague mr culch and thank you for bringing forward the resolution again this was a classic example of boys that have played not only with each other but against each other through the years of high school literally and all the other levels of baseball here in my county and to bring them together in this incredible way to get them to cool to this final game for which we watch and a little disappointing on the outcome but really they give it their all and that's all you can ever ask these young men are classic examples of children of children that we coached by coach lane's father when he was legal show more playing with mikey many many moons ago decades ago and so there's a lot of family relationships in all of this but i'll turn to these young men like they did to the others more good summers are in store for you there are higher levels for you to to achieve and keep the good work up because only time dedication and the resolve to be the best you can be will be your results in life you've worked as a team but you know you've got to give it your all and make the team better so that you can truly enjoy the fruits of your labor i one day will hope to see some of them in the next level of baseball and hopefully that all of these young men will never forget the camaraderie the friendships and the experience that they've had in this one summer i call this m summer of baseball because it was the best summer i can ever recall with all our teams going from all different directions going to all different levels and really achieving more than like jamie said earlier more than we ever been able to do in the past and hopefully bigger and better things to come in the future so thank you mr sharon again congratulations to the players coaches of course never forget your parents and supporters who made this possible because it took them and their hard effort and  hard work which is to say to make it a bailiff for you to travel as far as you went as far as the needs and financially so good luck to them godspeed and thank you it was a victory no there was any further chairman i requested the coaches and the manager come up the kids are all back in college or back in the schools so we'll just have the coaches and managers coming thank you please join us  coaches and manager i want to present this on behalf of the county council for your great job that you've done and for presenting maui and showing off so thank you very much and if you would like to say a few words what to tell these guys i hope to see you again here soon getting this award as well hope to see you there i must say it feels a little bit lonely not being surrounded by sixteen  kids and i guess there's good reason for that they're all off to college like was stated earlier and we're really happy most of them are pursuing baseball and call so this program has been really good it's been good to be a part of it and i feel a little bit funny about you know because the focus is always on the kids and here we are standing as a coaching staff but i would like to thank the coaches the n f l under eight now xander and you're going to hear his name for quite a while and use baseball because he's doing a great job for us and we thought we should bring in somebody a little bit more age appropriate with these kids so it was interesting this trip because i've coached for a while and you know i look at my job as saying hey look i want to just get involved with something because it feels good to get involved with something but you know looked at this group of kids enough coach for a while and i'm certainly not the best coach don't claim to be the best coach but i enjoy doing it because it's a community based program but when you look at this group of kids there was something unique about this group of kids and you know they moved me so much and inspired me so much that when i came back we do a company newsletter and so it's coming out next week and i had to write something for the newsletter so i decided to write about this experience and i was debating whether to read that here because it's not about me it's about my observations of how there's a correlation between what i do for a living and what this experience was like so i wasn't going to read it but i've changed my mind after listening to some of the things that you know went down ahead of me and so bear with me as i try and get through this but it's really kind of my feelings about how this all went down the national anthem was a great way to start each game at the western region in the world series i was fortunate to have been a part of a twenty one day journey that took sixteen awesome out players and four coaches to bremerton washington and then to easily south carolina in pursuit of our gold united states championship for seventeen and eighteen year olds all of hard berkeley you know up to these tournaments paid off during and prior to the trip we practiced hard and we talked about the predictable and sometimes overused motivators such as commitment sacrifice hard work setting goals and seizing the moment or the opportunity so we talked about those things but the real lesson learned from this experience which was personally remarkable to me can only be summed up by understanding the the tide of positive human energy produced when the entire group buys in to these few words confidence believing respect and pride these boys walk the talk and to find the correct meaning of team they all were one hundred they all one hundred percent of time and without exception were unselfish supportive of one another and were without excuses or finger pointing they believed and they respected one another and would quickly pick each other up effortlessly and with purpose they had a common goal focus good for one is good for all it medically and even at my age i still have a lot to learn and learn i did by just being a part of this experience seen the workings of a true team where everyone contributes has each other's back to team over self understands common goals and keeps things pause that evening even under the most successful stressful conditions especially when adversity is in play at the highest level was just extraordinary i've talked about teamwork professionally for years without nailing it and making it one of my absolute values that we need to build on and make it part of our every week or every day work culture i do hope this experience this once in a lifetime experience will allow me to lead with a better understanding of the unstoppable unstoppable  positive effects that teamwork produces however what i will forever know is that for twenty one days i experienced the power of team pride and positive attitude that propelled the boys from maui to rise above the powerhouse teams from california and florida and the rest the capture of the united states championship and it was during the national anthem a meaningful time for me before the competition began when i reflected on my personal emotions of goodness thankfulness thankful for being a part of this team and for that mazing lifetime memories that were made with these boys and coaches thankful for being an american and living in hawaii very special place of beauty genuine people and culture thankful from my family for allowing me to do this thankful for being able to give back to the community and thankful to my company and associates in community and friends for supporting me in the least family over the years and at the end of the day i'm so very thankful to know it's not always about wins and championships but about doing good relationships lessons learned and having a sense of satisfaction that comes with contributing my goal is to emphasize teamwork in my personal professional life going forward these boys the seventeen and eighteen year old boys of the summer of two thousand and six have opened my very thoughtful message and i think it's something the young boys of the in the crowd can certainly take heart take to heart so thank you very much for being here today members will proceed with their agenda mr clear message here for the provide testimony from the district offices individuals who are who wish to offer testimony from honolulu and i should now sign up with the district office staff individuals who wish to offer testimony in the chamber please sign up at the desk located on the eighth floor lobby just outside the chamber door testimony and all locations is limited to the items listed on today's agenda and pursuant to the rules of the council each testifiers allowed to testify for up to three minutes with one minute to conclude if requested when testifying please state your name the name of any organization you represent hon office please identify yourself and introduce your first test of fire thank you mr chair we have nine individuals who have signed up to provide testimony in the chamber the first individuals to testify this afternoon is simon russell testifying on committee report chairman a lot all members of the council came down here to mahalo you once again for this wonderful opportunity offered to the community and it's been my pleasure to be a part of these public meetings for the last year or so and witness the community coming together with o'neill descendants and cultural practitioners and farmers and i just wish that the farmers would be a little more like the baseball team we saw a few minutes ago been working together but where we couldn't seem to get them out here today as as much as i would have liked we did put out a notice but i think with the hurricane warning and all people thought the meeting was canceled possibly anyway i had a conversation about an hour ago with the chairman of the department of agriculture about propose ag park in this region i don't know if that's the final answer for what's going to happen in this area certainly is going to be up to you folks into the community understand but i would hope that if it is possible we could have some land leases for farmers and the  depart of ag told me that you know we can go after capital improvement funds through our legislature is sure you're all aware c a p monies are available for this kind of thing for water for structure roads so and so for security in i mentioned testimony before the my biggest concern is bringing the community gather in this region there are some some people homeless people living in the in the area causing some security concerns and i hope that these concerns can be addressed first and foremost because making any kind of infrastructure investment in the near term with homeless people living in the bush is thieving it's going to be near to impossible to get anything substantive done so that would be my recommendation to you all is to trust the security concerns in this region and i think through the community is the best way to do it and i have other in them and i like what you've said but i'm just curious have you had the opportunity to walk the property when alex was alive i did yes i used to work with a group called feed my  sheep and we did cleaning and we cleaned the pineapple fields after they were out of pine and i have been farming in that region for about twenty years not not on those lands but really close on the east and west of the storm here hopefully there won't be a storm my name is lee c in the ne i signed up to testify as the president of the haiku community association however i noticed my vice chair is here so no need to have two of us  community this is a very very big commitment it is an area has some opportunities and some challenges however the community is really dedicated to meeting both the opportunities and the challenges i've lived in this community for thirty years we've never had an opportunity like this at all to bring together all the different groups groups have been meeting as a top story process  been three talk story meetings over seventy people have participated different people over the course of the three meetings the impressive thing is a lot of people who never come to meetings you know who i know people who just live in the community fish their families gone to these lands for years they've come out and share them on the whole and there's a lot of common ground which is great i have walked the land i've spent a lot of time on these lands i went there with sierra club outings when alex bodie was managing what is now lots five three and four but i just in fact the last meeting you folks had i couldn't be there because i very inspiring all the work that alex and what can a foundation has put in on especially lots three and four planted all these fruit trees that are now mature and they're giving fruit and it's just that things have grown up around them because his operation had to move to cable and then had to move across the bay not his fault now there'd be a chance to build on that great work i know some folks are a little concerned about the whole management aspect of this and of course it is not a small undertaking i do speak for some experience i'm one of the founders of maui coastal land trust now hawaiian islands land trust and when we worked with the county and the federal government to purchase the y hay lands two hundred seventy seven acres so about the same sort of a big undertaking the place was a mess and we were we were two year old organization that was just getting our first staff person then had a very limited budget however through the coup of the community and through a planning process which happened after the land was secured sorry may i have a minute to conclude thank you anyway this  management plan happened after the land was secured because we needed here from the community we needed to base this on the fact that head of folks who families that lived there for generations so we had some basic principles that we wanted to you know follow certainly you know mitigating homeless encampments in dangerous situations and things and we worked with the police and the other community to do their community members but we couldn't do it until the land was purchased and i think that i think what you'd see here is the community organizations working with the parks department to address these things i don't have time to get into it but we have some basi basic management principles that have been pretty pretty well discussed and they're simple but they make sense and i think that they would help create a really successful plan here thank you thank ferment in the boat homeless people being there is are they there did you see them know there's two parts of the parcel there's lot one which is the largest lot that is the lot that has the most human interaction lots three four and five which total maybe about you know ninety acres or something like that they do not have any homeless people i've been there two or three times in the last month and they are just places that needs a mole ng some weed wacking some care of the roads i mean they need stuff but homelessness is not the problem they're aware we have problems in is lot one and we have you know people banning cars and this and that and that area you know the first thing really that needs to happen is a person who is there monitoring thing things and just cut that in the in the bud you thirty one following this costa we will go back to the  descendants of the area and i understand that there is a concern and i appreciate that lack of plan but then again we weren't even sure if this land was going to be  purchased i had a was i had an opportunity to have a meeting with the mare and he had said in no way he was going to buy this place rubbish when i saw there in was kind of a do we make a plan or not it's kind of like you know and then the nine point five came up and all of a sudden there was a deal that could happen a kind of wonder what changed  then losing thought here there was also a concern about how this acquisition because i thought the county was purchasing it i got up at two o'clock in the morning one day and i was watching a cool and i heard them confirm that this contract states is under threat of condemnation my understanding of condemnation is that the county or the state which ever entity now is in a taking so i'm not sure if when the ordinance came through if it was setting aside nine point five but not really committing nine point five so if it's under condemnation could there be some type of negotiation within that race mean support of getting this property because there is a lot of significant archeological sites which i understand is not enough to warrant on one point five but there are also lots of other plans that have come through more lay out that you hear about later or could noise that is already in p hall it is successful we want to start having conversations they've asked us to come in and look at their project i like the project maybe we can have conversation where we produce something there and there's a donation towards the management of this place i question the amount to be spent i i hear the concern of water which is more who comes in may i have a minute to conclude our more cookin then file the claim for the lineal descendant to find the ancient waterways and get that water back down there to begin with there is a man that is also proposing blue flower have any of you heard that multimillion dollar project we put the lid on there we don't even need the water or the rain always an unusual plant that will pull the moisture from the sky and feed its roots saw there is a potential beyond beyond but i still am a little bit leery as the speed because it didn't give us enough time for the plan and the amount i think we should keep it as a condemnation and take it but you should dictate the price thank you very much miscast members of the need for clarification see none ction to this lady being put on here is a liar and again is being run by a single entity and to have that many people on the planning commission the is a registered lobbyist and that person is right in the middle of this which really makes it hard for anybody else to justify what she's over there talking to the mr chair and counsel jennifer livingston i testified today on behalf of the hikers community association i want to say a big big thank you for all of you for spending time on this and considering this and considering the gravity of this decision it's a lot of money it's a big piece of property and it deserves that kind of that careful consideration and that and in order to lay a foundation that's going to that's going to work for the long run  so i proctor the web site community association and i also do the e mailing list and it's incredible how many responses i get just random people asking me what's going on tell me what's going on how can hope when can we go down there is there reforestation efforts happening asking asking asking and maybe you guys have the experience of having issues that are important and maybe not as much public involvement as you would like and in this instance it's actually the opposite and that experience shows me that there's a lot of people out there who really really really deeply care for their land and have really deep connections familial connections cultural connections so it's just this beautiful wonderful opportunity and i and i think that while there are you know important concerns that need to be worked out i feel very confident that the those concerns are are we can work them out we can figure it out we can make something that will be sustainable into the future and fundable and have a good plan and have people happy with it  hi my name is a really i'm here testifying for the news the north shore land i think this if we open for you can go play and that's all i have to log on to joshua job is with i guess i can talk about one of the projects i'm with is a whole canoe in a country michael and it's similar sized property around two hundred sixty acres of their former pineapple and and about four years we've been trying to figure out a process for our own processes it's not easy land management all different layers water management water conservation soil restoration native reforestation food production local jobs housing there are so many different layers but i mean it can be done it just takes planning and it takes everybody working together takes the government and the agency is there to help to let these things happen and so this is a great opportunity and everybody's talking about producing food and being able to have ag land ag and if we if the land is available it's just a matter of time where the people will be there and you know we're not experts yet but we brought in different consultants from other places of the world that are using these different techniques that are working for water harvesting and solar and mediation and things like that and you know we're trying to apply them and things are working so far but again we don't have all the answers but we're open to help whatever we've learned i can't speak for everybody because on our team because we're crazy busy but it's interesting to be able to help with something like this whatever we've learned but we just need to have the opportunities like this on the clarke next testifiers face chase testifying in committee report sixteen dash thirty one following ms chase we will return  aloha chair a lot of members i'm so happy to come here today to testify because sometimes i feel like i'm here at this podium and i'm i'm nervous and i'm upset and really joyful today i just want to say i'm in total support of the  purchase i know there's valid concerns i don't think that people should that you should stop asking questions i do feel like that there is strong resolution and the people of this place i was fortunate enough to know alex go to and work closely with him with his nonprofit you know  know missed by so you've been asking a lot of questions about planning and stuff and he had some very very far out ideas and that you know that he tested and child also he educated over seven thousand children in his time of carrying buckets of water he had eighty five different varieties of taro i personally would like to see part of the property kind of pay homage to his work and maybe have a  celebrates those varieties that he so probably spoke of i am concerned about some of the things that only cochrane had said about you know just her her sort of needs in the housing area and i i just would like to just add a little bit of inspiration that the holly building and the materials that can be built on this they can be planted on this property some of them are already in existence you know the all a way to those examples for traditional housing and sustainability and maybe that project over there could sort of like you know lend itself to some testing of things that she might be able to use in her housing concerns and i cause i know that's a that's a support of it and i do believe that like the fellow before me if you build it they will call you know sorry to be so cliche but one specifically i want to tell you this story this i think a student here from alex he envisioned somebody who didn't have a land been able to to ride the bus from by luke who with their passion and their intent to farm and come to that end i mean you know bus stop right there at the community center and have that access to that land you know so somebody who was really really passionate about it but kind of financially strapped would actually have that opportunity and so i always like that little story that he shared because i you know i do see people with that fortitude so thank you thank you mr members of the need for interactor unschooled expectations that he definitely lead them to the conclusion that their participation and rules is unique to their continued employment or employment status good afternoon members of the consul members for being here this afternoon for listening to our money all i'm here in support of item sixteen one three one and yes could you mention a name for the record please allies have axis to gather and to do what they've always done traditionally and culturally we can talk about culture but without the people that has created that you don't have anything so my thing is i thank you very much because we came i belong also to the board of my mom on the air in hina and i thank you guys so much for two days don thank you we have managed we have done i think very well we don't want too much monies that's my big thing but i know that this can happen and i want to take also the council because we had they really on helping us in two thousand and six when we didn't the there so i see this as a vision this can happen in our my continued dream for this is to continue to have mali be in charge of the land management and also the ocean marine management and we're sighted in a small way in our own more only but our dream is to continue it throughout the island so that there is always a place so that we feel like we don't need too big to go in acquisition my grandfather was also in the neo descendant of the area i was born and raised there i've been on the land so many times as i grow as i was growing up and  in support of the acquisition i can see this being a potential for sustainability to perpetuate our whole why and culture as well as our we've been meeting and working with surfrider foundation and sierra club why you cannot foundation and who and many other entities that i believe will help make this a good acquisition and we'll be able to perpetuate all of the traditional management and the restoration of our culture this area's so many historic resources and i just wanted to see it preserved and restored i think that if we have people on there and managing it that the homeless issue will no longer be a problem because when we used to use the land that never was report sixteen dash one thirty one ninety four and worked with him on his project in this and the lands that you're discussing today i served as president of whitey kind of for two years and i got to know this area pretty well i think i understood alex's vision that he had and what we shared was that through the work that he did for the agriculture and the culture we were able to bring in from my aspect treatment for the people with the agencies that i work for primarily at that time it was a low ause and so he would take the residents of the lower house out to aware but at one time carol served on the board as did jonathan lindsey and sherry franco they're not with us anymore but their spirit is and when millie was here  she brought the ford foundation and we were within i think the only thing that held them back from from the ground was the fact that a and b wouldn't give us a long term lease but they had sent  the head psychologist of a dad and dr harvey milk man who wrote the criminal conduct and substance abuse curriculum the drug court uses in many other places around the country so this land has another value and that is just for the people to be there and to participate with it so anything that you can do to help this i'm sure will benefit this community for generations and generations so from the aspect of drug treatment and allowing people to agree can act and that was one of the alex's dreams was to be able to connect to the land i urge you to move forward with this thank you or at the district offices who would like to offer testimony please identify yourself to the appropriate staff and proceed to the testimony lectern or the district office phone at this time  i my name is kathy cole who and i'm here to test the open space acquisition item in one thousand nine hundred six one of the last undeveloped stretches of white sand beach on maui south shore came under imminent threat of being privatized into half acre oceanfront estates this prompted community pressure on policymakers to save this important community resource from development ultimately what resulted in two thousand was the county of purchasing two of the ten lots for four point seven five million comprising approximately two acres for a public park land with no discussion of a management plan prior to acquiring these slots today's assessed value of the county parcels total  eleven million dollars mostly due to the neighboring multi million dollar estate properties this is the pollo way of beach lots two years following in response to the realisation that he had already lost much of its special places to development big profit and privatization of shorelines and culture areas a charter amendment was passed by the voters creating the open space natural resources culture resources and scenic be used preservation and the charter amendment even included a built in funding mechanism requiring the annual deposit of a minimum of one percent of certified real property tax revenues that accumulate in the fun for the purpose of scooping up lands of significant conservation recreation ecological historical cultural and it's that it values or lands threatened by conversion to other uses from their natural or recreational state for protection fast forward to today when the opportunity to acquire two hundred sixty seven acres coastal proposing significant phones knowing what was being advertised and council member might victory no for knowing and understanding intimately what the potential holds from his long term friendship with hollow actually the entire council for having the vision and political will to provide the hummock or look unity the rest of maui and our visitors with this i know steeped in long history of plantation heritage and rich cultur landscapes and last but not least i applaud mayor our kala for recognizing the opportunity of the land holds for providing clean home grown food for a community and a canvas for farmers to utilize their skills and alternative farming methods since its inception we've watched the benefit and save sensitive coastal lands like the way hay dairy and who and large tracks like new and kapu and all deemed important are communities for our future generations but the council administration utilized very methods and strategies in its acquisition campaigns fund appropriations have been creatively leveraged with some properties likely poor point repeatedly appropriated in the county budget for over five years as a show of a commitment to potential partner funders not one of the fund acquisition process is mirrored another completely sometimes they were partnering agencies and organizations that took the lead role for the acquisitions and ultimate management in the case of it is the county taking the lead initiated by the county council formed as a community partner driven by an assembly of many individuals and numerous user groups for the area including li to come together for one purpose and benefit of assuring that upon all manage it management plan is developed and implemented lots that were purchased seen or looking at purchasing i was involved with hosting national geographic but photographers from the lot for area and it's just a different viewing vantage point of the actual break and one is more of a straight on view and so yeah there is significant potential for the surf rate the area that we're talking about for the acquisition i represent alex body and his foundation work you can a foundation being there i'm a board member of like you can we definitely  appreciate all of the energy and effort that the council has done and also the marian acquiring this property again for its purpose of keeping it country keeping  it available for public to access so that our fishermen skiing and through the water and our farmers can go and provide and cultivate those things that we need to sustain our life as the host of again these people that have come to the islands we cannot have a certain degree of perpetuating our traditions whether it his heart for those that were on drugs for those that were having mental illnesses and he and i discovered a unique link that we have to go and maintain which is our connection to the land our connection to the ocean our connection to the people that have perpetuated these traditions so in summary we appreciate all the things that you have done and in conclusion that we would like to offer a prayer higher or orly for a higher vision so that we shall be unified together and in this prayer we seen each of us as a blossom all being woven together to create an early of unity where in our own differences we are now picking all the different flowers from all the different countries and different races that we represent that there is actually no war races in between the human race but there is just one people one planet one i know one place that we can live and let us  yourself and with that we'll take or break please be back in your seats at three fifteen we're in rece please come back to order mr cord let's proceed with our agenda mr chair proceeding with minutes you have before you minutes of the regular meeting of june seventeenth twenty sixteen minutes of the special meeting of june twenty  sixteenth and minutes of the regular meeting of july first twenty sixteen mr grossman thank you chairman of to approve the regular meetings of june seventeenth in the special meeting of june twenty eighth and the regular meeting of july first two dash one thirty one that recommends the following one that the resolution entitled approving the acquisition of four parcels totaling approximately two hundred sixty seven point seven acres  hama law molly hawaii be adopted to that the matter relating to the use of the properties be referred to your economic development energy agriculture recreation committee and three that county communications sixteen  first i would like to thank the work of the committee i thought that we did a very good due diligence review regarding some of the issues and concerns they were brought up regarding the acquisition of lands in the will note for the record that we did receive communications to august twenty fourth and august twenty sixth two concerns from the committee and appropriate correspondence from the department of finance as well as the department of public works regarding some of the concerns that also included potential resubmission to this special with the current cook county policy regarding the slating scale on agricultural lands this afternoon chairman normally i don't spill out but i think this is an important matter before the council of great policy decision for the greater community i would just make note for our community in general throw this current county that we're using specified funds it comes from the open space culture resource  fund and i don't know i can say is i hope there's not much disappointment because not everything that i've heard as i understand the current charter and policies that all of those things will be allowed to happen on this potential acquisition so i share that up front with our general community it's going to need to be part of an accepted management plan and a look forward to the efforts guzman's committee to flesh that out and to come up with something workable and acceptable for the total community since that is to screen the bill other than that there has been comment chairman but i leave it to the parties involved it is not part of the resolution itself in this part of the attachment under two point three on page four of twenty regarding threat of condemnation i understand the reason it's in the attachment i understand some of the general  way of looking at things to me i'm not a educator license attorney i just find it interesting that perspective but i will say chairman that with this purchase we move forward practices and the historic rights to use walking through it and it's also protected by the state of  is going to cost the taxpayers is the ongoing operations and maintenance of the lands once we acquire that will be pretty much forever and will be going to likely the general fund parks having a direct conversation that i've had with representatives of the seller i can assure the body that the concerns that were raised have not fallen on dea  ears and that the seller has agreed to remove two point three from the final version in an effort to facilitate the completion of this purchase the seller has agreed to do that and the seller has also recognized the concerns raised by the community therefore and that will come from mr grossman's committee and i feel comfortable that i know feel that mr guzman will facilitate it so that it will be quite acceptable i  personally would like to just say that we can restore and really reconnect with the land and you know gathering rights are are here you know they are there should be no questions about gathering rights even in today's form but to just say we want to preserve i think we need to completely restore and use the cultural significance as part of an education for the generations here and the generations to come actually have the land come back to life and to tell it starry whether it's through food production or the bring your of our archaeological sites there and the cultural significance i guess will bless us to have clear title for us to to do the work continue their work that we've started many many years ago so i just need to add that and i look forward for a sitting on the committee where do have them because i am concerned about the idea that we are spending a great deal of money i don't have million dollars is a lot of money and i understand it's a little shorter than that but you know with it we can deal in real money nine and a half million dollars which again i believe is a down payment i want to thank mr hall comma for his remarks i totally appreciate them i'm concerned and one of the testifiers i was very surprised that cost made such a strong plea for a plan a management plan and i agree with her i would have been much more comfortable if we had a little bit more i am concerned very much about the liability that this property will bring to us because although i don't know it personally in the last few weeks i have relatives and friends who do know it very personally and there's concerns about cleaning it up there's concerns about possible of hazards on it that we haven't really discussed and i understand you know people are trying to sell this to us they're not going to tell us a whole lot of stuff  so you know we're going to get it and i understand what is motivating us to do this i understand it very deeply i understand the need to preserve places that are special to other people i understand cultural access i understand the need to have gathering rights and access much of it has been taken away and that's not good i also am familiar with mr bodie he work very closely with the youth program  and the kids used to go to work it cannot and learn a lot with him and elects to do wonderful work there and i'm hopeful that somewhere in the future that something like that could be expanded and i think there might be a great deal of use to our community because we need places for people that need to heal however again it's going to be a long time to get there and it is going to be difficult and i ask all the people that are here in support to seriously get together and make something happen because you know once we've bought it it's ours and i don't want to just sitting there i'd like to see it active and clean then with people enjoying it and the county getting some benefit the most most benefit we can from making this purchase so i'm going to support it but i have been like us and continue to be very concerned and i'm going to be keeping a close eye on it and hoping it turned out to be well as don kalish on the budget finance committee during budget and supporting the measures to appropriate the monies as well as mr victoriano and the rest of my colleagues for me this is been  a dream come true where were you actually have a piece of property where you can start a model on the mayor has reached out to my office as well as some other members and assured us that we're going to work in cooperation to try to get the management plan on its way i have had the opportunity to visit honda and the property and it was it was an amazing site and what they've done over there they have it's open to the where i look forward to working with the coastland trust and seeing what their models are and developing a somewhat of a stewardship type of management plan with the other user groups thank you thank you kathy for reminding me of polloi we got less for more let us not week any longer because every time we've waited we end up paying more for less yes this concerns but once we own it once we buy it like you stole commerce it that becomes an asset for molly county yes a liability also not denying that i've been to river mouth well the homeless keep gathering and they clear our wild  come right back that's all part of our responsibility sorry that's it but most importantly we buy it today just like below i imagine what it will be worth not only  fiscal part but the part for which the community will put together what i believe is a new model for my county and we see what happened in qana we'll see what happens with other areas but more important think north shore has its own unique ideas whether they can all come to fruition on me still come remains to be seen but i believe the community when they sit there and they discuss it and they're willing to work together just like the haiku park right by complete row it's a unique community it's a unique playground and i believe this will be a unique asset to my county so i wholeheartedly support it for those  naysayers out there but for those who say we're spending too much money well again i use a wire as a major example we waited and waited and waited and got a lot less and paid a lot more even though it's worth a lot more today but imagine if we had gotten all ten lots what it would mean to this county today we can't change that but today we have an opportunity to do to have our future destiny in the north shore settled by this coun as mr victorian i mentioned this is a very unique community and a community that has shown that they have the leadership and the muscle to do other projects and do them very well and doesn't mean this is going to be an easy one i think this is a very challenging one because of the potential mixed uses and and certainly of variety of different interests but that's that's why it's important for us to have m committee work through the management plan and provide something that gives direction to those who want to use the property and protects the the county's interests at the same time so i want to thank all of you because we don't pass this one at a time this is these items passed with at least five and when it passes with nine that's so a wonderful thing so with that  chairman i just make a final point of information for our general community this resolution does have the effect of law later this requires one reading by this council so it won't be seen on the next agenda today's decision will be the council's decision on either acquiring or not to do so i just shared it with our community and like an ordinance will be a second reading but for us through this vehicle of a resolution is one and only approval thank you yes thank you for that clarification the money was authorized in the budget does not need to be authorized again so this is just a resolution authorizing the use of the money the record resolution sixteen dash one zero nine you have before you from your housing human services and transportation committee committee report number sixteen dash one thirty two that recommends t following one the bill intitled a bill for an ordinance amending section fourteen point three four point zero nine zero and fourteen point three five point zero eight zero ma we county code relating to the exemptions for the wastewater assessment be for facility expansions and collection transmission systems upgrade be passed on first reading and be ordered to print two that the matter relating to wastewater assessment fees other than those relating to chapter two point one six molly county code the county's residential workforce housing policy or housing projects be referred to your infrastructure an environmental management committee along with a copy of the department of environmental response dated june twenty nine twenty sixteen attached here two and three that county communication sixteen dash five three be filed this career or thank you terry move to adopt the met me eighteen twenty sixteen and august eighteen twenty sixteen to consider a bill for an ordinance amending sections fourteen point three four point zero nine zero and fourteen point three five point zero eight zero relating to the exemptions for the waste water assessment fees for the realty expansion and collection transmission system upgrade chapters fourteen point three four and fourteen point three five  wastewater assessment fees for the expansion of the key wastewater treatment plant transmission system an expansion of the way luka louis waste water treatment plant the amends the exemptions from these makes units as defined in section sections fourteen the proposed bill makes sections fourteen point three four point zero nine zero and fourteen point three five point zero eight zero mon call consistent with the residential workforce housing policy the director of environmentalists management informed the committee that the county or only charges wastewater assessment fees louis these fees are used to recover costs incurred through expansion and upgrades to the system your committee further noted that discussion is need it with the department of environmental management to determine whether assessment fees and exemption should be updated in the court as well as how code requirements are being implemented therefore your committee recommended referral of the matter relating to your thought was more housekeeping but in my own research my disappointment in our county choice or department figure the inconsistency of application of our policy it creates problems for the body especially when it comes down to fairness of application it disturbs me greatly so i appreciate the committee's efforts to deal with it and you know of course we are see none of those in favor of the signify by saying i think those opposed say no measure passes with eight eyes and one excused mr clerk for the record bill number eighty eight twenty sixteen your proceeding with county communications you have before you county communication number sixteen dash one ninety from the chief of police in for me to counsel of the intent to use one hundred forty nine thousand and five dollars and forty two cents in police informing the counsel of the receipt of five thousand six hundred fifteen dollars and seventy one cents in forfeiture funds for the department from the department of the attorney general county communication sixteen dash one ninety two from the prosecuting attorney transmitting to counsel a copy of a notice of grant award from the state of hawaii the parking of the attorney general crime prevention and justice assistance division for the career criminal prosecution program for the period of july one twenty through june thirty twenty seventeen india amount of one hundred forty four thousand seven hundred thirty six dollars county communications sixteen dash one ninety three from the director of finance transmitting to council one hundred twenty two and contract see five three four seven and three and c six zero five zero eight six of twelve and if any of the contracts that the members me requests for consideration under the finance component of your committee i'm happy to have them also thank you thank you the members mr mr coach i think you need a second first second just to check if that's we have a motion for mr holcombe or the second f nine dash four to the appropriate committee probably i am for discussion of the program essentially and then also probably include in that is five five six zero dash three seven eyes zero nos two excused miss cochran and miss kerrville mr clerk county communication sixteen dash one ninety four from presiding officer pro tempore victory no transmitting to counsel the matter relating to scheduling of committee item on amending community plan requirements relating to land use designations mr couch thank you mr chair  the floor to mr victory you know since it's his letter ok mr victory thank you is the chair i request is this chance to talk about this man is scheduled to schedule p c twenty one amending community plan requires relating to land use daisy nation because i think this man deserves our attention and should be heard should be heard again it is raining mr cull just committee for quite a while so i am hoping that this matter can be brought for and the last time it was heard was may twenty sixth two thousand and fifteen scuse me it was heard and may twenty sixth two thousand and fifteen and then the last time it was heard was june eighteenth two thousand and fifteen sausage we have recently come again with considerations for updating the ny community plan i felt this was very important so see if this could be again discussed and somewhere solution could be found this isn't a point did manage to draw testimony from over one hundred interviews or when it was first brought up last year i believe this will happen again but i think it's time that the council would consider this matter and the public should have more chance to weigh in on it so that is  five from the chair of the policy an intergovernmental affairs committee transmitting to counsel a proposed resolution in title relating to the appointment of michael cutler pull ropa to the molly county cultural resources and mission five and title the read relating to the appointment of michael ropa to de mar we count the cultural resource commission second of emotion from mr crean as second from mr couch july fifteenth two thousand and sixteen the mid transmitted a resolution up boarding michael robot to the commission this matter is very time sensitive because of the deadline for the council to approve or disapprove this nomination this time sensitive resolution to date i respect the last my council members to support the wave of referral on this matter so that the council me considering thank you mr chair thank you members any further discussion on the waiver nominee has been interviewed by us and i think the general consensus is that i we've heard from most of my council members they thought that he was a very appropriate appointee to do this nomination i know this individual his family well and it's i thought that was wrong that's why i never said it again yet no no i appreciate consider your consideration as a thank you for the correction i appreciate that mr okama thank you members thank mr okama any further discussion zero yeah before you cannae communications sixteen dash one ninety six from the chair of the policy an intergovernmental affairs committee transmitting to counsel a proposed resolution untitled relating to the appointment of a gallo all be nominee in accordance to section thirteen dash to seventeen be vice charter of the county of mali one nine hundred eighty three as amended but and chapter two point four one molly county code by correspondence dated july eight know any discussion members so you know all those in favor of the disturbed please signify by saying i i was opposed say no as your passive a seven eyes and two excused mr you know for me i would love to continue to support any of the ny resident who wishes to serve yet we on this body understand the importance of a plenty of commission up especially in this county support i believe are i all in our community service commissioners that have a good sense of process understanding of the issues and particularly the history that have occurred prior to places in the current position we are today i am disappointed then in certain actions being with the vent organize liwa people think we're going back to the old days old plantation trick on the white horse with the big black boots well i don't need for one night to go backwards and you learn i to stand up show their maturity and be able to present to this co nominees they can do the job various components of my community this week this week and share with me their disappointment and i share their disappointment of you truly how do we place a very nice person in such a hard and difficult position i didn't think that was fair to the nomine pasts participation in the community makes them a good consideration i am disappointed that we have placed his lead in this position this afternoon i don't think it's fair or right so members you know it's tough i'm going to have to go home faces families face this residence have to just decision what i believe i'm doing what is the best thing and the right thing sentiment after having the discussion in the committee and and obviously the administration didn't talk to this person prepare this  person or whatnot and she was put through some some you know questions that we always come up with and i agree with mr okama so therefore i would like to make a motion to i very regretfully i am going to support this motion it's really sad that we're at this point and i'm very embarrassed for miss it cannot be a comfortable thing that she's had to go through but i agree with member who come up that we could have done a better job whoever did it could have done a better job of getting the applicant ready for for the interview by us to take over that position so  due apologies to the applicant i will be supporting it and i think it's for the best thank you thank you miss by so any further discussion you know it's a victorian oh my member speaking thank you very much and it was very apparent at the meeting i do agree and you know whether we voted to approve or disapprove was in the question it was a question of unfortunately did ministration again not taking the time to put someone forward that could should and was willing to do the job and be able to to really understand what the job was all about what the commission represented and i think this is what i'd like to  like to send to the administration let's get people who understand what needs to be done they don't have to know the job but what needs to be done i think it's very important and that's what's been lacking in some of our nominees  bondo i thank you very much she went through the ringers on on on our monday meeting and i felt bad for her i know she was trying hard but i don't think anyone helped her and make her understand what necessary to to to to do this particular especially planning commission is so important all of our commissions are put there but this one in particular is so very important and the community was hurt like you may still come i not only heard from those testified i had others call in and e mail about their concerns retirees people that felt that this was not a good choice and that's why i can support i had to bring it out as an approval because unless the committee made a difference you know said differently and if they had then i would have come back with the disapproval so much because just jumped the gun as usual but that's ok we can handle that but most importantly i want to see only bundle to know that we appreciate her putting her self fall and we do appreciate her wanting to serve and i hope this doesn't deter her from serving somewhere else for which we and the administration feels she can be a big contributor for seasons and their relationship that is not a part of my decision making that's a totally separate issue is the fact that i think this young lady was just not really to take on this challenge and need some help needed some people need a lot do want to also thank miss oberlin mado for coming out and putting yourself out and some fortune that turned out this way but i do encourage her for coming to come out for another resolution sixteen that one eleven mr chair the following conic communications are recommended to the following committees as noted to your budget and finance committee county communication sixteen one ninety seven from the budget director transmitting to council a proposed bill in title the bill for an ordinance amending the fiscal year two thousand and seventeen budget for the county of maui as it pertains to appendix in part one grant revenue schedule of grants by departments programs department of the prosecuting attorney special needs advocacy program county communications sixteen one ninety eight from the director of finance reporting to council on transfers from the general fund and apartment of water supply revenue find to the twenty seven thousand proposed general obligation bond fund as of june thirty twenty sixteen county communication number sixteen dash one ninety nine from the director of finance reporting to council on transfers from the general fund and department of water supply revenue fun to the twenty seventeen proposed general obligation bond fund as of july thirty first twenty sixteen two your housing human services and transportation committee county communication sixteen dash two hundred from council member cochran transmeta council the matter relating to the review of comma lani subdivision north key hey affordable housing qualification requirements county communications sixteen dash two a one from the director of housing and human concerns transmitting to counsel the matter relating to the fair market rents for maui county to your land use committee county communications sixteen dash two or two from the planning director bill number eighty four twenty sixteen a bill for an ordinance amending the fiscal year two thousand and seventeen budget for the county of mali as it pertains to westmead revenues department of environmental management environmental protection and sustainability program solid waste management fund department of finance countywide costs total operating appropriations and total appropriations operating and capital improvement projects bill number eighty five twenty sixteen a bill for an ordinance amending the fiscal year tw seventeen budget for the county of mali as it pertains to appendix b revenues fees rates assessments and taxes department of environmental management solid waste management fun charges for current services the refuse disposal bill number eighty six twenty sixteen a bill for an ordinance ordinance to amend title sixteen maui county code to eliminate exemptions in the electrical code plumbing code in building code categories bill eighty six is from his cochrane and her committee's work on the infrastructure environmental management committee and her recommendation for us to support this afternoon updating of the electrical code thank you members any further discussion on these items see none of those in favor please signify by saying i was opposed say no as your passes with six  bargaining agreement and to enter into an expert consulting and support services agreement with the state of hawaii city and county of or new county of kohain county of hawaii for consultation services relating to the interest arbitration hearing of the contested articles of bargaining unit eleven firefighters collective bargaining agreement mr goodman i thank the chair moved to pass a bill number eighty seven on second and final reading as read by the agreement with the state of hawaii the city county honolulu and the county of quite a higher special council there's been an impasse with the negotiations with unit three scuse me you know eleven which is the firefighters bargaining  regarding the collective bargaining agreement this is also set for arbitration hearing and is necessary for us to priest move forward and basically hire a special coun to represent entities and at least employer side on this matter as well as the hiring of an expert consulting expert as and support services for the displeasure in the process and i believe all of us had a displeasure in this process and i just want to double check to make sure that we have that i had i'm being sent to either p i probably p or another committee just to if we can certainly do that but i think that has been done and i was also for a check in my back each we were including that also missed here so yes it has not gone unnoticed and it will be followed up by and the my county package which will be being brought forward i think at our next council meeting and present to the idea for discussion and i think we would all agree we've had some of the more spirited discussion and so on this issue that we've had this this year any further discussion on the item members seen none all those in favor of pleasing if i by saying i was opposed say no measure passes with the six eyes and three excuse we have another report at five o'clock looks as though it's moving in the more duvet a little bit away from us and hopefully we'll all be safe this weekend and i want everyone to please keep lester in their in