a modification to an ordinance that gives a second chance to people who turn down their offers of contributors so there's a power just under fifty of those people the first half of those letters are on twenty  out so they're being processed at this time so once those are processed will do that again for the rest of them and then go back to going through the list you know from one to three so each person gets sixty days to respond so basically what we do is the and for b for the division reports which are in your binders it's been primarily just business as usual maintenance operations there's nothing substantial to report in the operational though i would say it's been a very rainy spring and the reservoir is the country reservoirs are uncharacteristically full at this time usually they would not be full first time and we'd be looking towards for those are being advertised as civil engineers we would want to get the whole thing about the how that county civil service system works but we'd also be fine with mechanical engineers who have a background in a big there's a big over about between mechanical and civil engineering when it comes up pipes and pumps and things like that the way the civil service system works you have to kick want to advertise for you can't advertise for engineer mechanical or civil you have to advertise for mechanical or for civil there are both sleeves civils around so we tend mostly to advertise for so if a mechanical engineer applied for the position they would be eligible or not eligible if anyone knows any mechanical engineers interested have them come talk to me we could advertise for a mechanical engineer i do know that some people with a mechanical engineering degree have in the past been found to qualify for civil engineer positions like my degrees in mechanical and environmental engineering my first job with the county was as a civil engineer too so somehow they looked at my other instances although my degree was in mechanical environmental engineering i qualified for a civil engineer position i don't know exactly how in charge deals with that but if there is someone interested send them my way and we will help guide them war issue about whether or not you want to get a subcommittee perhaps to be more involved with that over or have some involvement earlier the way the process works officially thirty five million gallons of that so you can see the department is really just a small part of the overall water use the water use development plan looks at the whole island not just the department says where is the water who wants it what purpose is needed for it basically sort of matches water availability in the environment to water demands from the county general parker says how are those matches it's not a detail infrastructure assessment it is water allocations at a high level so that's what the water useful plan does and right now we're in the public comment phase where a lot of the social values and scenarios are being discussed to see how people feel about really allocation strategies people different opportunities there may be another set leader we're not tied down the public wants more interaction we can do that but we're really seeing how these meetings go what kind of results we get what sort of comments we get that we'll go back and put that data you gather make the plan better and decide whether or not we more public and budget right by them again or whether we're ready for to finalize scenarios so what's the difference as you know water is a very controversial subject and allocation of water especially when you have east l a where you have streams and so on the front page of the paper today do you have where i can tell you the last time a couple years ago we had our police officers there because it was becoming so heated these were not at that level there were people sharing their concerns but no one's self and safety and in the past meetings a while numbers are there other thoughts on how this court could engage in this process preference i mean the procedure is what it is if the board has some committees were even as individual members wants to go to any of these meetings you are more than welcome to are also members of the public it's new folks going on this is gathering information so as individual members or subcommittees you're welcome to do it we're we're just trying to cast a wide net for community involvement and community ideas so whatever you feel is ok are we prepared for one or both of our presentations ok our precious resource in water and we know there's a lot of demand out there and want to take this opportunity to share with you folks a little bit of all we want to should preserve and what we've been doing behind the scenes when we look at other places in the world and their rainfall in so far the amazon gets between fifty and two hundred inches preserve average is four hundred what what the delivery system is going to be and in collaboration with trial as well as the department of water supply we've been working over the past few years or several years to make sure that my he made a water treatment plant  s supporting us tremendously hold on the fiscal end as well as the support sometimes you know we'll call in i need to talk to ali what do you think about this it and just that kind of oh i would call it a partnership because it's not used to this idea that it's future not solutions there's some real solutions that are needed because the threats are real like climate change and so we get a little into that all kind of go over a little bit  and just a very wet place you'll notice right at this pool will even have to go to places right at that pool the bottom of that thousand foot waterfall to make sure we take care of the to species sometimes you may have eros coming down this side currently working on native c hydro mulch so that we could keep that impact and not have it unfold you know and yes every drop last year from below forty inches of rain doing everything right so there are some serious threats out of our control and what i would share it council members is before we can divvy up the water and see where it goes who gets moves through the forest it captures all of that fog which is fifty percent so our guys are accessing really deep really remote areas this is a picture of the boardwalk day when you can see past your hand out of clouds thanks to her coil is our local paparazzi sitting in the back east follows us like national geographic inched so i can show you all these bloody grandpa used to the hobo this story and to police the thought that he still being able to experience that and as it gets down to the marine that it's all nice clean water getting down to a street to provide the  top and then on the flatter section they'll be four so the gear can't over but it takes a lot of effort to put it and make contiguous fans here to see a picture of the guy having to valleys they walk eight to ten miles carrying forty own pack i like to think i'm hip but as i'm getting older it's getting harder to keep up with them and include so that we can drink water into it so that when the people say hey monica you heard it kind of be put out there quite a bit new some of you are familiar with it the record all he had a death is a new disease that has taken over about thirty thousand acres in a matter of years the home on help even if we google the fence we do everything right status quo climate change says we will get fifty percent less record only against here you may destroy all the forests this is the time for all of us to really do here is from the time it rains to get software for it's a couple decades on all of those twenty five years before that drop kits the water table means that our kids if they're twenty t volunteers come through who are shipped here about twenty one thousand in kind last year was close to one hundred thousand dollars of volunteer labor planting trees pulling weeds we were funded two hundred twenty five thousand last year generation and so that public outreach is really important you know you get a lot of the field picks to go and as they get married the kids and we move on also got to have a training program so you don't have to start all the way back to acres that's it that's was doing all the weeds all the surveying all the famous building checking they're in gauge every month all that work it was done by just a few handfuls fish and she is really continue to support who we want to share as well as the other worship partnerships we have been leaving the state the county of mali has been leading the state in water should support hands down that is not  that is a fiscal dollar amount that we can see might play somebody's got to be done and somebody needs to show everybody else how it's done and get the metaphor we cannot take the back to say well what are you grew up it's hard when you have to choose which being you're going to do when you guys are in a position all the time one thing everybody knows is we all need meat and onions and  that's a good question first of all ashley you have to be passionate you've got to love the forests you gotta love that nobody sees what these guys do get everybody from yosemite and all over the world saying i want to work there so if you have a degree you hit a higher tier because we are equal opportunity affirmative actions but a training program like point studies natural environment biology ecology hydrology erosion there's a whole bunch of natural resource degrees that you could get can also get credit for their degree one of the traps that we have is to get your degree now you get a degree now come on somebody from you so many you know and to simultaneously and then there's the walking with the experts learning getting training and it degree sentenced to the everybody get eye form education exchange just as serious you can see how far things are and what you know and the kids are smarter but they don't have as much exposure so i would love to meet with you and develop that program and be great to follow point might come in because he is such an inspirational speaker and he covered so many of the challenges and our goals and objectives that those of us who work in research protection here and now the county strive to accomplish  practice doing a lot of lunges with there's five days beforehand to get in shape because the going out isn't as hard as the coming down but he is a patient in wonderful teacher and leader to go up there it gives you  it gives you such a different perspective to actually be in those special places whether it's west now you're smelling to see and feel the forests that provide us the water that we need so i'm going to talk a little bit about focus mostly on base of plants as he said because that's what the mounting bases of the committee and let him be since the committee are funded to do by the department of water supply as you probably know we work on a host of other invasive  focus for their part of the water supply is only on on invasive plants and research has shown and it's been interesting to us that the department has actually been pushing us to demonstrate a little more clearly the nex hydrological integrity and the work that we do whether it's invasive plants or animals looking to pull together what is the research what is that show we know from other in some ways we  don't have to recreate the research because we know for example in tahiti that when my coney invaded the forests there such a dominant became such a dominant mano cultural crop or plant plant bare ground also some studies have shown that invasive plants it's a strawberry transpire more water than native plants something on the order of twenty five to fifty percent more water goes off into the atmosphere that native plants which capture it and send it into the off water drops the fall from those leaves are actually larger and so you get more of a force hitting the ground when the rain comes into that my cone you dominated forest so you get more potential for erosion so not only are the root shallower and are would be hard to get to or if i mean that are relatively easy to get to and then we also rely on the use of helicopters for some of those inaccessible areas it may be a helicopter with a long lying about sixty to eighty feet and on the bottom of that line you have what we call a spray of all the helicopter pilot hovers over that plant and then releases a small amount herbicide directly on that plant so it's a very targeted application of herbicide that's been effective and that was the only kind of main tool we have in the toolbox for keeping those inaccessible plants but there are a lot of places you know from our habitat here that are quite steep and the pilot can't hover over or maybe there's a road there or there are electric lines or there's a lot of wind and so we're very fortunate that we've developed partnerships as talked about working with a lot of different agencies and we're really lucky to have  in a helicopter with the doors off you fly to where the plants are and so you're flying only in areas where you know they are and then you shoot them with regular people call it's not regular they're filled with a small amount of herbicide takes about twenty five to thirty kids to kill a plant and they've gotten really good at it and it's actually quite effective and so that has benefits not only because you're able to get to places that you couldn't get to before but you're also able  come back and get that long way but the people approach you can just go find out until you're done so it's a much faster application and approach but we need all all different techniques for my  ground the air with the long line and the people technique help us grow this is one of the other key plant species that we work on and it's a really good example of how we kind of got where we are for the work that we do which is that most of the species that we deal with were introduced intentionally people proud of men because they're pretty like only as they were just planted has this purple underside and fel these wonderful white plumes that that make lovely yard additions landscape additions but they also have some grass so their seeds are when dispersed and so they can go where they don't pay attention to just state your yard they can go anywhere and and in fact what they've done is now invaded our east and west now watersheds so this is a species that also has developed a high helicoptered into remote areas camping for a week at a time the same kinds of challenges are faced by our crews as well a lot of he didn't talk about the mud well they have they do have the boardwalk where they are but there are those areas that are great for the water make it really difficult to work in very challenging and then the helicopter where we don't have that people tool presently for pampas grass we would love to have that because acquire a special local needs label to it to get the herbicides and the herbicide that we use for my cornea is not appropriate for the pampas grass so we would hope to get that because our most challenging places pampas grass are on west maui so seeing steep cliffs that you saw those photos of that's you can't use a long line on that so we're hoping to move in that direction and in this in the future but that's definitely one of our biggest challenges for that species as well as what we call recalcitrant we're recalcitrant landowners people who don't want to allow us to control their plant or their kochi or their fire ants or whatever it is and a laws are not really that helpful to us department of agriculture has the authority to go in and demand control of a plant but it's very rarely used it requires  here i wouldn't request or order for one how to control it if it's surrounded by other houses that we're still working on so it makes it it makes it really challenging that is a policy area that we're working with the c they have defined boundaries that they work in and that's awesome and works really well for controlling and it doesn't matter if the plants incipient are not that they have their target species that they work on as an invasive species committee in a way we're  east but our site is the whole island so we're more species choose which are the worst species that we can focus on the highest priority species that we think we have a chance of controlling based on available techniques and resources and we go after those and wherever they are if they happen to be in a watershed partnership lands we're working with the watershed partnership collaborating a lot so in the labs in the last month we sent one of our guys up with west nile mountains worship partnership and they were already doing a trip up there we piggybacked on their helicopter trip to get up in there and they found a pampas grass plant that we want to enable to go otherwise so we really work to collaborate in those kinds of those kinds of ways to pool our resources and get the best bang for the buck we also work besides those two plant species that i talked about we work on a host of different plants probably about twenty different species on maui and at least as many on so a lot of those are not as widely established as campus grass or my konya we call them they're they're they're more on target for radical or we're in the final stages of exhausting the seed for those species so once that we before they really got out of control and that's another one of the things that we focus on is early detection trying to identify what  driven every road on maui every road on every rolled on to look for the bad boys the ones that are all we know this is not a good species here and then from that list from that work then we might pick five targets to go after so that's that's probably other than stopping us from getting here to begin with that's your most effective dollar plan since once an invasive species has breached our border learn about it we have a very active outreach and education program we are in the schools on a regular basis where it almost as as is cooling the other watershed partnerships that most of the public events also helped  although if we focus with a department of water supply funding and plants i just want to point out that we consider both cookie frogs and the fire ants to pose a threat to our watersheds because and i don't know that any anybody done a study on that but i think they will find eventually when they've gotten into natural areas that they will have affected the overall ecosystem and certainly the same is true for plant s just in closing we are extremely grateful to the department of water supply for its longstanding support it had been been a close partner with the department of water supply since i think since two thousand and one or  hundred nine probably i think one of the first partners and really appreciate the professional level of all the staff that we get to work with to manage the contracts and support her work and have been longstanding supporters  two hundred and sixty three thousand so i think that next year will be about fifty two hundred fifty thousand it's a very it's been it's actually been fairly constant for quite a long time which it's been very helpful for th partnerships to have that consistent support some years there's been a bomb to assist with additional arial operations we use the funding entirely at present for personnel support and a lot of that goes on in my pon said even though we're making great strides with the herbicide listed technology is the peach bowl is called people approach is called that has folk almost exclusively on what we call  federal level we have china had to abandon our core infestation so our core like what we call in my county a core which is right around the holiday area it's getting more and more dense it's choked with routing trees which is not where we want to be at all i have in the last number of years i have written proposals both state and local to try and develop an internship program we have thousand a year that's about what i totally did it to be we would be able to launch a program like that that would help us to try to start making a difference and that we also are one of the things when you have species like my coney  even wasn't able to show you the distribution of it but we're working over about one hundred twenty thousand acre footprint not it's doesn't mean it's all infested with michael only up but that's the area that we feel like we need to cover ground  you just can't you can't get to all of that month so other than that the h p t we're we're we're putting a lot of resources into that we're not we're not where we need to be on the ground so that's what i was going to say is that with the with a species like that one of the other things that some point to support is biological code control agents so we have in the past had some county money with but towards that and continue to support that existing quite level to look for something that could about the rapid over here death that's doing more than props in the backpack it's not that's not a good thing but that's not just for clarity that's not a that's not an intentional introduction areas where we know it's been we will look for gulches ticks can definitely move it people can move it cars can move it and just as poor kukui does we have very rigorous decontamination protocols our crew have entirely dedicating so and birds also because it's it will eat the fruit and spread it that way so yeah so when we have one no on the tour plant we figure we need to search out at least five hundred meters from there and the other super challenging another thing another super challenging thing about it is that the seeds can stay a fireball in the soil for probably twenty years so from the time if you miss a seeding plant in an outlying area you just set  clock back twenty years for that area going back a long time again thank you so much for your support and for i know all of the what you do is volunteer and there's much more important than water of it's always hard going after a take over guy because they're so passionate you just want to give them everything they want all the time settle up high end up being sort of the coal business guys are going to get my little cold business talk about where they fit in  or about three percent overall spending so that's what they were talking about saying we are the leaders with leaders in a dollar value and certainly a huge leader in the percentage even though the city and county in honolulu board of water supply has a much bigger water delivery system so that that two million dollars we're looking at focusing on what will help provide is isn't just first talked about long term reliable supply of water to our systems same way we do preventive maintenance of our development that may not meet our needs but the other is the watersheds also you know clean the ocean and protect all sorts of other parts of the environment that may not directly affect the water supply so those are also funded outside of us through the off from the partnerships every year say what are you asking for and we have a procedure to put that in perspective of what will help the department of waters so we take everybody's applications and we have a com review committee that goes through saying what are they asking for what have they done last year what can they spend how does it help us how we try to allocate that two million dollars three percent for the most bang for the buck so that's our internal procedure  offer a management standpoint a lot of you probably remember some years ago you know not in water department not department of water supply grant there were some harsh findings of how some county departments were having jamie grants to nonprofit so i think all across the county our management of nonprofit is really had to wrap up if you get used to be that if somebody was granted one hundred thousand dollars a year every quarter they were just really checked for twenty five thousand dollars that isn't how their that is it's more of almost similar to how a consultant is what did you do you know have you spent your money are you ready for this money to meet your needs so the management of these grants is being done more a little more strict rules and the partnerships in our profits are really ramped up to recognize that their business and has had to adjust to that it will just get a check and so there's a lot of behind the scenes business you know into this but that's how we interact with them that's how we see them again it's important to know two million dollars a year we try to allocate that best we can we would love to give more in the same way that we would love to put more money into prevent a big trip the president and so on and so forth beautiful thank you all at this time i'd like to ask if there are any agenda items for board members for our next meeting take counsel budget and finance committee is reviewing the budget they are scheduled we've gone through have gone three times in the past couple of weeks for the different parts of my budget they're wrapping up the investigative efforts i think tomorrow and i believe on monday morning the chair of the budget finance committee will be giving his recommendations for budget and then next week is the big deliberations we were they sat back and forth different ideas and by the you know roughly a little more than a week from now the budget and finance committee tries to nail down what they believe the budget for fiscal year seventeen for the whole county including ours should be and that should all be  those items that seem to have come to question for board members and that'll be a process of the next couple of months so look forward to a little bit of reading a little bit of understanding of what  we could print them all of them in binders that's a lot of paper we could burn them all into this i suppose so what would be easiest for us if people can access it through the web or they can read it on their own they don't need any thing from things that have come up over the last couple years that i've been on the board that i wouldn't mind just debating with with the board for example if if a water meter is called from a system property due to  to be this is a three year period before reinstatement correct rather i'm doing i'm not doing this justice but you have three years to reinstate that leader before you pay the entire meager fee again i'd like to i'd like to discuss this with as a body whether for example that is serving our constituency but i'm sure there's other there are other items in there that will come up f chair for clarity there are a number of things in the ordinances that are really engineering standards anything codified but there are a number of others like the chair mentioned that are real just cure policy issues that have nothing to do engineering sta