chairman thank you good morning to the people of the great county of maui it's always interesting what a member will you say to give in opening remarks  less meeting we had some great words from our colleague so i'm going to share with with you mr chairman and our community just morning is something that i believe we haven't discussed and most privileges and benefits as being a resident or a citizen of an area and the responsibilities that responsible citizens  understanding that for the many things that we enjoy such as freedom liberty it's not just a privilege there's an obligation for us to perform to protect those their active actions under civic responsibility in promoting and providing for us to pay their fair safe working conditions fair compensation appropriate benefits that us workers everyone should have in a healthy society we just again unless we recall them remember nine eleven a massive giving for americans showing our resiliency and again our obligation to perform as citizens of this country to provide for others so the bottom line of what i'm sharing with all of us this morning mr chairman deals with the current season and that is the responsibility and obligation to the citizen of this type of community to participate in what many people call iraq to vote the part of having to write two book is the responsibility to carry out that obligation as an active member of a community because without constant vergil constant participation comes the question of transparency and what is your government really doing all the citizens we have an obligation to participate to ensure the transparency to ensure that there is timely and appropriate decisions made by those elected so for me mr chairman i will conclude that i am here to has all our people in our county to take responsibility for your  obligations fulfill what is required of you as an active and contributing member of our county and at the end of the day please cast your vote and exercise those who wish to give those responsibilities to act on your benefit and your behalf thank you very much thank you mr okama we are please rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance thank you just a reminder for everyone to please turn their phones to silent mode as we move through the proceedings mr clerk please proceed mr chair proceeding with presentation of testimony on agenda items we've with the district office staff individual so 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 at all locations is limited to the items listed on  agenda and pursuant to the rules of the council each testifier is allowed to testify for up to three minutes with one minute to conclude if requested when testifying please state your name and the name of any organization you represent hannah office please identify yourself and introduce your first testif who signed up to provide a cast of money in the council chamber the first person to provide testimony is elizabeth i send director friends of all molly high school testifying on committee report sixteen dash one three seven to be followed by richard  chair away members of the council aloha here on this very beautiful windy day i would like to take a few minutes to do exactly our future i believe in preservation because it marks history for those who come after us and i now have four sons five granddaughters and i hope more be coming the all high school campus was a very important place for us who grew up on maui i did not graduate from that campus however many of my friends did and there is still my friends today because the friendship there are forged during our teenage years are very very long and important and i think those friendships are the things that both store us in our adult lives this is a beautiful campus i remember many times going there to share their tip it is that were being conducted by my friends there the future of this campus is important to me because i really would like to honor our late congresswoman patsy teaming who was a graduate of this wonderful campus also when i was vice principal at the new high school campus i learned that many of our new graduates of my high school had never been there and it is our duty again our civic duty to make it available so that all my wee high school graduates in the future will have a way to find some of the routes that the predecessors gave to the organization that is today we request thing to come and help us preserve this campus has my full support and i hope you will also support that thank you very much thank you very much members only for clarification of testimony strickler next testifier is richard lucas program redevelopment of the old molly high school campus fifteen years ago old molly high school was on the endangered species list the campus was overgrown we had had three arson fires and the place quite frankly created a danger to the public it was on the verge of being demolished and a small group of preservationists and alumni came together and said we can't allow this to happen they went to the mayor and asked for permission to take over care of the place and to try to save it and the mayor in his wisdom allowed this to happen now the mission of friends of old molly high school has always been the preservation of the historic buildings and the campus located poco but in order to be successful in historic preservation it's necessary to also define adaptive reuse for the property so that it doesn't again fall into a state of decay in twenty zero seven mayor are a coward directed friends to prepare a master plan for the reuse of the campus and we enlisted the expertise of chris hart and partners in that endeavor chris her team set up a series of community meetings and workshops and invited members of the community to come in and tell us what is the best use for this beautiful campus how can we define a use that will be beneficial to the community an respect the history of this place out of those meetings came a master plan the master plan outlined an environmental sustainability center we've been looking for a way to implement that master plan for the last ten years i feel that the teach proposal largely accomplishes the goals that the community defined in that master plan the teach proposal is a bold plan that incorporates the features of the old molly high school master plan and add some additional features that enhance that mission i regard the proposal as an excellent opportunity to preserve the historic hold now a high school campus while incorporating an exciting committed to sustainability and renewable energy technology it may be our last and best chance to stave the historic buildings and campus of old mo high school the council over the years has been generous and supportive of the mission of the friends of old molly high school in trying to preserve the campus for future generations we now have an opportunity to accomplish the success of that mission and i would humbly ask you to approve the proposal of teach development and mcduff and thank you for allowing me to come tough today almost fifteen years ago my family and i started going to o'malley high and helping with the with the preservation and cleanup after the fires we fell in love with this this special special place and when i joined the friends of kelley high it was to help preserve the historic buildings and the campus they so deserve to be to be saved  and i want to ask you today to look at this new group that's coming in because i do believe that they can take over this we have been trying to get the money for for ten years and everyone else had given up on this place and we didn't and they're not going to either they came in to take over our mission and to bring it to life this group is willing to spend their money to renovate the campus maintain it bring back the historic administration building and to benefit the community and they're going to have demonstration projects on perma culture organic farming alternative energy water reclamation classes on sustainability hawaiian land choose and show the community and the state and the world what is possible how can we live within the resources that are available without consuming what is left for future generations that's a that's a worry to me it's a worry to the world in this group is trying to prove what can happen and what a noble mission what benefit not only for the community and hawaii but again for our our children and the future generations followed by keoki raman good morning chairman white and council members i am barbara long past president of friends of old miley high school and i'm here on behalf of the board of directors as well as the thousands of alumni of maui's first high school here today we have a number of i and some board members as well how about joe raise your so the council could see who you are a lot and i board members thank you back in two thousand and three when i got involved the historic campus was a mess it was an overgrown jungle and the buildings were trashed the proud sabir alumni joined friends in the massive cleanup and preservation work contributing many hours of labor and thousands of dollars toward securing the schools future alumni were part of the focus groups and the task force that in two thousand and eight created a master plan for the campus that would preserve and care deeply for their school and what happens to it in the future the board and the alumni are pleased that teaches proposal is modeled on that master plan and honors the history and legacy of this iconic school teach center will ensure preservation of the campus and school buildings and will continue the emphasis on education and agriculture on their behalf i ask that you approve the resolution today to enable the teach team to begin their work to preserve and repurpose the old miley high school and give the hundred year old campus a new life thank you thank you m be followed by hugh star crazy towards the and then i notice a lot of people cleaning up there back in the early two thousand and it was pretty impressive i signed on with a group called teens on call brian mccafferty's pretty well known in the county and we ended up doing a lot of restoration work on an extreme they couldn't have done it i don't think friends of all my high could have done it if they got out of the public we were one nonprofit opening another and it was a good fun good beautiful place to work i really fell in love with the physical plant up there what was left of it and i enjoyed my work up there a whole lot and after a few years some of the board members approached me about being on the board sort of technically is on  and i was pleased and flattered to do it and i think my experience here is taught me that save it it's worth it it's a charles dickey building and the administration building it is in you know the ones in honolulu and even the ones here in they are they stand out as real beautiful pieces of early twentieth century kind of kind of a modern combination of polynesian asian and how o architecture some of the best around i think the guy really got it and i would love to see it preserved these people want to do that that's going to be the focus piece of their project i can't really discuss a politics because i'm not a politician but i would say that that building in those grounds are worth preserving and sharing with with everyone for posterity and if these guys can do it give them a chance thank you very much thank you very much mr chairman i mean the need for clarification his committee for making what i consider really important amendments to the lease regarding the county's obligation with respect to road improvements so in all sincerity thank you so much i think this is a really important thing and also i want to just say that of course barbara long and i go back many many years and my brother actually went to  and i feel all the work that the old friends of the friends of all my high have done i've washed it through the years so that goes unnoticed and i feel their frustration and their optimism having said that there's one thing that i alluded to in my comments back to the committee after the last committee meeting in the middle of august and it was this had to do with the context of the executive orders for one one seven and four three four three i apologize i brought this one page i did not let's fix my name to it inadvertently but that's why it's in front of you what i'm intending to illustrate here and i hope that you will direct corps council or whoever the appropriate you know person is that could analyze this it appears as though well from my observation executive order four three four three was a was an amendment or an augmentation of two executive order for a one one seven executive order for a one one seven clearly stated the purposes that this was being transferred to the county was for public purposes and then they made one further alou sedation which was public purposes for the purposes of social services programs all that executive order four three four three did me in my view is amend that to add additional public purposes of education agriculture and related support purposes now the office of economic development sensibly requested an opinion from the state department and natural resources chair case responded in a one page letter which is alluded to here as exhibit five on your page one forty two again i think chair case perhaps could have misconstrued the context of this so in my view the intention of the executive orders was for public purposes and i think where i'm concerned is for the liability of my we county if we enter into an agreement with a private developer then are we subject to any kind of litigation because the uses our challenge to down the road because they aren't they aren't purely public purposes this is this project is is a public private partnership or it is a private development for profit and i'm concerned about this for us we the taxpayer so i urge you oh my good morning good chair white and council members you already know me you've seen me a testify on several matters before but for the record i will state or turn it may i am here before you today knowing all of the work that has gone into old high school across the years across the span of of many groups and much time and effort that being said i also know that there have been many groups that have expressed interest in wanting to be a part of that group that we hired for the uses that are stated and intended in the executive orders believe four one one five zero four one and seven and four three four three i ask that you do for your decision making on c r sixteen dash one three seven and that you discuss this matter a little more in depth with thought to possible future around if occasions for our county budget and for a community before rendering a decision there are several troublesome items i'd like to mention and i hope you will consider these responses that will be porno for the ajna and our money people are of p fourteen dash fifteen p c dash fifteen of the mayor's o e d states that the most financially viable proposals that fit the parameters of evo four three four three will be considered and on the previous page it also states proposals that rely on government funding other than fee for service will not be considered i don't want to assume but i am thinking this must be the reason behind this council's reluctance to secure a local entity to assume administration and maintenance of the old high school property is it that there just hasn't been an entity has been able to meet these requirements and if so how does teach development l l c who has no website and no information that can be found about them in a casual internet search able to prove this private funding and its financial  ability for the county of maui if they can provide this why did they state in section f there are documents that you have in your folder contribution from the county of ma of their proposal they not only want ab they not only want but absolutely says from the county that bonds road improvements historic tax credits all of these things will be expedited in a manner that will give them a shorter time frame than everyone else here in the county there's not been adequate community informational meetings input or collaboration so further reading gives us no details as to how they can be certain they'll provide significant employment there's no impacts on traffic studies and so i do ask that please reconsider deferring this decision because we do need mr clerk next as to fire rosemary robins testifying on committee report sixteen dash one thirty seven to be followed by no poo warning everybody if i had a hat i would take it off to you thank you so much for all the friends of my we high that have just stuck to it allegiance to their their whole outlook on how valuable this area is so thank you so much and thank you mr grossman for the good stuff that you did in here we're talking about page three of today's agenda and it refers to that committee report number sixteen one thirty seven i got it i read it  i also got the whole deal i got it i got to read some of it but and i'm concurring with the folks who have spoken before me this morning  a few pages because i'm really encouraging you to get to the seventh floor if i get these materials you can get it to the folks there are wonderful the attorneys and the other staff that are there thank you so much for all that you have done to make this available to the community at large on this committee report it talks about the fact that there will be a page three emma and that there will  be social services education agriculture and related purposes the first three and that a pretty definitive related purposes to be s protection and sewer system so they said that and they said that at the same time that the upcountry zero percent advisory committee on contaminated water from up country was working on this including with  people on the national level who were pros in this so keep in mind page three of this report keep in mind page five of this committee report  they one of the revisions was to require teach development to provide an annual written report to the council written every year not too much room to let this thing run away with us it also mentions that there is no obligation for the county to provide water in the developer interest the page the need to drill a well where we heard that kind of stuff before and then also on page seven your committee notes the proposed leases require the town need to construct and maintain paved public roads to the property so that means that's going to be a bill for the county so in particular over to page thirty six on this three hundred thirty i have an age document all proposes that might want to work on this geography or its to thoroughly review the studies which a listed in this document to fully understand all of the issues and the in adequacy said infrastructure the most significant infrastructure in the adequacy of the lack of potable water and the lack of protection and the lack of septic sewer systems right here in this document they'll be happy to set you up with it there is background on the people who teach there you know to fit in honolulu private sector is was mentioned here a little while ago and it doesn't give their background as romans exceeded your time could you please provide a concluding remark sure last period last page sixty eight and again i want to thank everybody who has been involved in the development of this there's loads of legal these in here and everybody has been wonderful about making that available one three seven their first meeting as on monday members of this organization have emailed and called expressing the need for this group to speak to the concerns of highway there is concern about this county lease to this new and unfamiliar entity teach development while there are many issues surrounding this resolution i will speak to the concerns related to the road raise roadways including one a highway hold a mile of road and baldwin avenue this resolution cannot be entertained because of the following the right turn off of  one highway onto a whole or more road requires a traffic study that has not been conducted yet the traffic that piles up as you approach goalkeeper from the direction has been long in need of visitor education and traffic signage there have been distracted drivers in this area due to the world famous surf and windsurfing spot numerous accidents happen in this specific location whist which has poor visibility on the corners from both directions we have present day and resolved issues with parking at whole keep a part existing traffic issues in this area have not been intentioned and it is presumptious to expect any expedited permitting as the entity demands in their proposal the entry road to hama corpuscle is a massive undertaking as widening the road and accommodating for walking traffic shall be expected the moving of electric poles would need to be considered and the removal of either east or west facing trees will likely have to happen along the existing narrow road the proposal severely underestimates the cost to comply with  requirements the increase in traffic will also negatively impact three schools on bolden avenue where morning and afternoon traffic is already fatigued the last road mention of the a bypass is a presumptuous notion on a matter that my residents demand input how this project relates to the construction or the government green flag to do so is evasive an incomplete as it has been recently witnessed with the multiple dangerous landslides it's obvious when a highway is in a precarious state automobile accessibility to this remote area is only possible through this one route of highway three sixty for some residents the access to doctors and emergency care is life threatening our famous my honda highway has met its challenges with the influx of tourism averaging one thousand eight hundred twenty six vehicles a day and over three thousand individuals has enough challenges and this is not the time to add congestion to a highway that has unresolved issues pleased for c r sixteen dash one through seven and make serious consideration to the roadways and conduct traffic analysis before proceeding with this entity or any others who choose to i have copies of the survey that we conducted if you would like copies you provide them with their with you if there's any individual wishing to provide testimony please proceed to the district office staff or the podium in the chamber at this time it appears that we have additional some social media as a theme park and we really do come from the heart and i think our conversations with council and the committee hearings we really do want this to be for public benefit if we wanted to make a theme park or a hotel there are plenty of places to do it much more easily and much more profitable it is our purpose and my mission in life to actually create a paradigm shift that will will really create a world that is regenerative a local living economy and we believe that this site and maui can be a showcase for something that is truly  amazing mother teresa said if you asked me to go to an anti war rally i won't but if you asked me to go to a peace rally i will and quite frankly we are looking to create something not fight against evil but to create something amazing with the collaboration of the community and we invite you know whether it be farmers activists businesspeople entrepreneurs inventors and makers we want to create a place that really is exemplary and creates a demonstration of what is possible for a healthier thriving sustainable now and world for this in future generations i understand concerns around traffic we have those same concerns where you want to do the traffic studies or you want to do the deep environmental studies we have one of the leaders in the world on our team bill reed who has done amazing r design planning and applications work for thirty years we take this seriously we take our obligations seriously to the environment and to the community and to the land we would like the opportunity to roll up our sleeves to fund this and to do the studies and the work necessary to make this an exemplary showcase of innovation and benefit for a landing community however are dealing with a very challenging site there's water and soil contamination there's no possible water there's no sewer as you've heard some of the issues that we have to face and quite frankly until we get an approved lease and can get on the land and do our research and do our studies and roll up our sleeves with the community you know we're like we're talking about three and a half million in the first year and six to seven hundred thousand dollar investment just in these studies and community engagement in the first six months we want to be able to find a way to work with the council and the community to be able to create an exemplary and amazing project that will benefit now and we hope that we can find a way to do that and  seven thank you chair and members i am also a board member of the friends old my high i'm quite familiar with the difficulties up there we've had a lot of people want to do something up there but it requires a really large investment to make the thing actually function it functional and usable having i feel that we are lucky to have people of this  and i also want to offer respect to the people that have been reviewing this in the community and raising some questions because i think that you can always improve something and there's ways you know you have to look at it you have to in the same way that what might be a problem in the beginning could become an opportunity to make a larger improvement i think that there's no question this is going to provide public services in the same way that the university of hawaii on maui provides public services you have to pay to do things there too like the maui arts and cultural center provides public services but sometimes it costs so much that people are unable to use it the idea of the things they're offering  wonderful now my concern here is a sixty year lease are we locking ourselves into something too specific that is not for sea stuff in the future and i don't think anybody here except maybe this young lady in the front row is going to be alive and sixty years to have some input on things that's that's one thing the other thing is it looked to me i haven't been able to read all the literature that is coming out here but it looks to me that the county is committing itself to fixing homo road to be the access the main access to this thing and i would suggest that we all know we have a horrible traffic problem through by we all know that we need to have a bypass i would like to suggest the possibility that going through sunnyside road it runs into the mill road crosses all the and just above the mill and there's another road right on the other side how mccall poco which has a couple of branches and the upper branch crosses whole more right at the lower edge of all my high now that would eliminate running traffic up past two schools and walking neighborhood of skill you want to provide a concluding remark that's fine i think this is a wonderful program here i think this is a great thing to do i think let's also listen to the people who are raising questions let's not miss an opportunity to go even larger and create more public benefits and i think in the example i'm giving you a bypass that does not create greater traffic impact inly indeed relieves having impact could be something that you might want to look at in this least before locking yourself into something that makes that hard to do thank you very much mr grant them your members any need for clarification know the resolution being to take a vote today on this i wish i had read the document that rose had i i don't know enough about what the actual thing you're voting on is to be able to answer that question with a definite yes or no i tried last night to find information on the internet got up at four in the morning again to try good morning mr white and council members jason hobson i'm general counsel and chief development officer for teach development good morning council member gruesome and thank you again for the hard work that you and your committee put together  think we have a very good product as a result of two hearings in work with corporate corporation counsel i wanted to kind of use this my testimony just to clarify because i know that there's been in social media a lot of different ideas and comments some productive not some not so much but really use this as an opportunity to not only echo i think the sentiments of my colleague march asen that you know we we don't we're not going to do this alone and we don't intend to do this alone this is going to be very much a collaboration not only with council but with the community as well non profits i mean that's that's in my d n a and that's within the essence of the teach team but i just want to make sure for the record i addressed some points that were raised here today as well as in social media and the first and thank you mr grantham for your testimony you know there was a concern raised about a sixty year lease and something that we've talked about in the  committee that was on the record was really importance and the need for a sixty year lease and when the reasons why is you need to make sure that a lease is a finance police i do in the capital markets all the time i deal in the capital markets all the time mr chair and you need to finance a police a lease in which a lender would place a long time a long term mortgage or a deed of trust on the property as well as investors who are making a significant investment in this project for there to be an adequate period for a return of that capital and and their investment in general and then we anticipate preserving the admin the dickey building the administration building and taking federal historic tax credits and other tax benefits on that property we will be depreciating over forty years the tax benefits for that property because of the significant investment so at a minimum you need a four year term but the capital markets dictate that you have to finance a police which you can put a lot of time mortgage on as well as a period of time to refinance and so a sixty year term was kind of the minimum term i've been in other jurisdictions where you have a ninety nine year term but we took precedent from the cool of farms and some other leases in which the county entered as precedent for that period and so that's point one in our r f p we did ask because the r f  asked for any applicant to request what you would like from the county and so we did ask for maintenance of the roads to help us facilitate approvals to cooperate with any funding and how that translated into the lease is the only obligation the county has to provide any financial support is paving and maintain the roads and that obligation and our work on our last committee our committee was to clarify that at all times that's subject to appropriations and so that would be subject to a separate public hearing process there's been some concern about traffic studies and we will as part of a development process have to go through the various planning and zoning hearings that will always address even as part of the e p a will be undertaking traffic studies to look at the impact that this project will have on not only hold  request for clarification implement a consent to the uses and in that consent we did identify the lessee and provided the context in which deal in our can give us that that consent letter which was part of the work that the county and the corporation council has done a very very good job of protecting the interest of the county we have the vision and the resources to continue to work through this project with the community is part of of high school for their stewardship and their hard for their forward thinking and i would like to also encourage their continued involvement should this project move forward almost twenty five years ago today the county interested citizens advisory committee with the task of gathering information to facilitate an update of the haiku community plan a key problem identified by this endeavor was a quote immediate be to create a payee a bypass road to mitigate then current traffic congestion and to address the areas projected growth through the year two thousand and ten now nearly another decade past that window a projected growth the county has failed to address traffic congestion in the paey and i could communities as others have detailed today according to documentation provided by teach development this project will invite upwards of five hundred fifty students volunteers and attendees to travel on whole who rode and the already congested and ill maintained roads that lead to it additionally teach development is demanding that the county not only provide all necessarily road improvements they want it to be done on a quote historic tax credits low interest loans new market tax credits expedited in title been sliced and says permitting and similar processes will be handled by the county on an expedited basis they ada need to prioritize the needs of teach development above any quote business as usual time frame by contrast the county's unprecedented one dollar annual lease for a period of sixty years appears to lists virtually no demands from teach develop it that would ensure that the project actually provides the numerous for profit services they describe which seems to entail everything from ending global hunger solving climate change curing cancer and balancing the forces of good and evil in other words this proposal hits a lot of environmentally encroach really friendly buzzwords but it fails to delineate the means by which they will be accomplished funded or maintained numerous references in the proposal references revenues that will be gained from quote entrepreneurial incubation equity and mentoring fees this seems to be a euphemism for a business technology park which is most definitely at odds with the community plans intention to live limit this particular property to education and agricultural use is in keeping with its historical designation as well as executive order forty three forty three which states the old high school should remain designated for uses related to social finally it is my opinion that the county needs to stop handing over stewardship and preservation of our culture recesses resources to well connected outside sighters seeking only to capitalize commercialize and quote showcase what is sacred and fading from our current experience as we speak today i thank you for listening and i urge that you open up this resolution to more community input as soon as possible thank you thank you for your testimony this morning members so you need for ninety twenty sixteen bill ninety one twenty sixteen and bill ninety two twenty sixteen respectively you have before you from your economic development and e g agriculture and recreation committee committee report teach development l l c pursuant to chapter three point three six and three point four zero maui county code be adopted to the county communication sixteen dash one to be filed three the county at our last meeting at that your committee as indicated in the committee report it was quite extensive and several suggestions to change or make amendments to lease were requested  the corporation council deputy did do that however it was she needed more time to actually incorporate those changes so what has been out there circulated to the public may not necessarily be the correct version we do have before us the amended version which i'm sure the members would like that opportunity to review and go over it would be most likely advisable that we hear those had that opportunity in your committee so that we can address some of the other concerns about traffic impacts as well as the tax abatement i also realize that there's been an ordinance that has been submitted by the administration regarding the vehicle or the process to grant that tax abatement so that also needs to be discussed and i would rather that we discuss both items at the same time in your committee being the fact that it only takes one reading to pass this measure i believe there's  enough information or issues that have been raised in the general public that we need that opportunity to address those in another your committee so that we can basically educate the public or at least make things better like one of the testifiers had mentioned issues come up and you know maybe an opportunity to make this project better or the least tighter   master agenda we're nearing the end of the year and i i wanted to make sure that i can get all my items out but i am i also realizes of the importance of this project and also the hard work that friends of old mally high have put in over the years if we can stick with this a few more months maybe a couple more months we can address some of these issues and that's not it's not really a long period and i would do my very best to try to arrange my agenda to accommodate so thank you chair i've asked the support for this recommitment thank you members any further discussion on this item myself but i probably share sentiments of the rest of this body that we support preservation of our historical areas and especially with my high school so i for me it has no bearing on the work that has been completed the work that they wanted to complete and handing it over to an end to t v feel can fulfill that so for me it's a lot of other issues and charities men did mention you know the tax abatement issue you know the one year lease for sixty years right out of right off the bat for a for profit company i mean the list goes on on you heard them through all the testimonies today so i just want to reiterate that i completely support the recommit of this item at this time thank you them access to property to do due diligence to be able to come up with a recommendation whether or not this project is really going forward or and so you know i just bring this up  because here in the testimony i realize there's other physical limits teachings because of what the community has asked for what impede potentially be disadvantaged for this project such as  nation of han a highway as a national heritage road and our inability again by designation to meet up or pretty improvements regarding vehicle weights safety over bridges spans dimensions and wits whereby we are all aware the sum of our new modern first response equipment cannot now traverse those bridges because it is over across while the more weight so and communities requests to have this road designated in such a manner that not our people have a difficulty in response so i bring up this challenges and for me the sooner we get this due diligence done we'll be able to make it better informed decision was indicated in the deputy's report that yes the administration could grant a right of entry so that right of entry wouldn't have to be approved by the council but if the administration would like to that had been answered and to the questions were answered and incorporated into the lease agreement as an amendment and that was some of the changes that the members had not been able to see  one of the i believe one of the questions was about the tax abatement which was recently answered and so that was not in court that needs further vetting chair i think by having the  most recent ordinance that was drafted and there are lease in the same committee i believe further discussion can be made and vetted through and resolved so there's a little bit  little few loose ends that need to be tied up i don't feel comfortable moving forward considering the fact that this does not have to have a second reading this is the final reading for that's good and i agree totally with mr come on it if we can find a way to get these folks on the property so that they can start digging around to find out what can really be done think we have to try to support and get that done because if we did that then there wouldn't be a whole lot of concern about the long term contract you know if we knew more or less what are they going to do and here i go again you know trying to look ahead but you find out when you though this i am that i to look back but it's hard to look forward so better sometimes it takes a little bit more time and do this right so that leader on we don't say oh god if we had only checked that out so i'm in support and i want to thank you very much for recommending tha the the lease agreements especially and to go more into detail as far as the concerns that council had originally want to thank everybody for their work also thank  before you from your infrastructure an environmental management committee committee report sixteen dash one thirty eight that recommends the following one that the bill intitled a bill for an ordinance amending section ten point six zero point zero four to maui county call relating to cross walks establish the past in first reading and be ordered to print and to the county communication of sixteen dash one four ninety five ordered committee report sixteen one thirty nine recommends the following one that the bill entitle it bill for an ordinance amending section ten point four eight point zero four old molly county code relating to and sixteen to discuss the pros proposed bill to update the maoi county code to include a mid block crosswalk installed on hundred way street line m o hawaii and this request for the crosswalk was prompted by a concerned citizen who is seeking a safe way transmit offer council approval and as part of department's her no way street curb ramps project to address the visibility of the crosswalk for motorists the department said it would determine whether flashing beacons would be appropriate after evaluating and august twenty ninth two thousand and sixteen to discuss proposed bills to one delete from the lists of streets where parky was prohibited in well look at district pili street located between market and church streets since s which will improve safety on that street in your committee noted public works commission unanimously recommended approval of both of these bills at its meeting of april twenty seventh your committee twenty august twenty third discussed street matter director said updates to murray county code were necessary after title issues concerning road remnants such as pili were resolved in incorporated into the while loop municipal parking lot  there's a little more let's see than the horno place director confirm appropriate signage would be installed to mark off the designated no parking zones south side of the whole place and that the department of fire and public safety department and both amend parking prohibitions notated in the same section of ten point four eight point zero four zero zero any code and with that chair for both items i respectfully ask for this body's support thank you chair music chair for committee report sixteen dash one thirty eight its bill ninety three twenty sixteen and for committee report sixteen dash one ninety three one thirty thirty nine its bill ninety four twenty sixteen you ha before you from your policy an intergovernmental affairs committee committee report sixteen dash one four zero recommends that the resolution entitle relating to the appointment of during contour to the mali planning commission be adopted thank you dear it is meeting of august twenty ninth two thousand and sixteen by a vote of eight to zero your policy intergovernmental affairs committee recommended it option of the resolution entitle relating to the appointment of cantle stated she was committed to attending a commission meetings and fulfilling her responsibility to the various commissions commission to see i respectfully ask my council members to consider this motion clerk for the record resolution sixteen dash one one tool you have before you committee report sixteen dash one forty one recommends that the resolution entitled relating to the appointment of chris representative from the mayor's office stated that mr mcfee is an engineer as required for this position in the interview with the committee mr mayfield stated that he is committed to attending board meetings he stated he understands his responsibilities to the board and will include which includes protecting and preserving the architectural character of the community and advising the planning commission so again i respectfully request my council members to consider clerk for the record resolution sixteen dash one one three committee report sixteen dash one four two recommends that the resolution entitle relating to the appointment of robert relating to the appointment of a bird up at nome to the cost of government commission your committee noted council must approve or disapprove this nomination by october eleventh two thousand and sixteen or the nomination will be organizations the methods of operation of them are we counties department boards and commissions again knowing ms patton oh i know she will do an excellent job and i we chris my council members to consider this motion thank a please come back to order a members without objection chair would like to bring up bill number eighty eight for consideration prior to commensurate with the remainder of the agenda cruel has a very important meeting in regard and tax delinquencies with an entity that we're all familiar with which will for now remain nameless but  clerk of you in my bringing up that bill thank you miss a chair be relative to committee report sixteen one four two that would be resolution sixteen one one four you have before you fo bills for a second and final reading bill number eighty eight twenty sixteen a bill for an ordinance amending section fourteen point three four point zero nine zero and fourteen point three five point zero eight zero now we county code relating to the exemptions for of for the waste water assessment fees for facility expansion and collection transmission systems upgrade mr bell thank you chair i moved to pass bill four and fourteen point three five molly county code as stablish wastewater assessment fees the expansion of the key wastewater treatment plant and transmission system and the expansion of the waste water treatment plant bill eighty eight amends the exemptions from these fees allowing these exemptions to apply to developments comprise up one hundred percent residential workforce housing units section two point one six point zero two zero maui county code making sections fourteen point three four point zero nine zero nine fourteen point three five point zero eight zero maui them favorably signify by saying i was opposed say no passive with nine eyes and zero nose and we were back to committee report sixteen one four three mr clerk mr chair you have before you committee report sixteen dash one for three from your policy an intergovernmental affairs committee that recommends one that the resolution entitled approving for inclusion in the twenty seventeen hawaii state association of counties legislative package a state built in the excuse me a state bill to enable council members to freely a can community meetings be adapted to that the resolution entitled approving for inclusion in the twenty seven thousand hawaii state association of counties legislative package a state bill relating to changing accommodation tax be adopted three that the resolution entitled approving for inclusion in twenty seven k in hawaii state legislative package a legislative bill to allow persons with disabilities to indicate on their identification cards their disabilities be adopted and for that the resolution entitled approving for inclusion in the twenty seven thousand hawaii state association of counties legislative package and state bill to increase revenues from for each county's affordable housing fund through a one percent conveyance tax be adopted september sixth two thousand and sixteen by a vote of eight to zero your policy in the governmental affairs committee recommended that option of the following proposed resolutions entitled approving it for inclusion in the two thousand and seventeen hawaii state association of counties legislative package a state bill that to enable council members to freely attend community meetings approving for inclusion in the two thousand and seventeen i why state allow persons with disabilities to indicate on their identification cards their disability and number for approval for inclusion in the two thousand and seventeen state association of counties le resolution by amending the proposed bill follows and this is on the fourth bullet there that mr victory just mentioned at the end of the existing proposed text for section two four seven seven pair and three h r s i would like to add the following and i believe members you can follow along with me on the handout that was given the following and show only be used to increase the supply of affordable housing by the following means a the purchase of existing housing units and of the interest in real property b the planning design or construction of housing units see making grants or loans to nonprofit organizations including community land trusts or d investment in public infrastructure  county and state level to make this effective and to give it a chance of passing at the state level because our experience with the tat i am amending to add stronger language requiring one hundred percent of revenues to to come back to the county in which the sale was made and as we know the state is trying to move away from the use of special funds because of the possibility of abuse i did some research into what kinds of affordable housing funds exist in other counties and found that not all counties have a specific affordable housing fund or that there there aren't specific about how these funds are to be used and so to appease state concerns i added language added this language to specify how these funds should be used so the language is is a summary version of our of section three point three five point zero four zero we county code of our affordable housing reservation is another current state law and this is what i would ask the members to think about because i like the intent but one larry with this recent ownership went through a change traditional real property transaction this was a transfer of corporate assets where they pay no can be in stacks and we talk about the big many people and so that's my reservation is go i like the idea but we need to find a way to adjust the statute to force this type of exchanges or really a real estate transaction to be properly reviewed and tax accordingly i think this if i missed out this is another example of the know the issue denote a loophole and yet they refuse to address it in a responsible and timely manner of being the governor's office for this i mean the legislature for this we have to find ways to make this work and so i'm go support this but i asked that the members think about how we can adjust the statute to close the bigger loophole which is levy in the coffin rishi and use the allowable technique to avoid paying convenience taxes and that's might be free because then you're one percent of nothing is nothing thank you thank you mr o'connor members any further discussion oh mr grossman to do law and thank you for the comma for your insights you do make some great points in that respect and there's a lot more work that needs to be done in this but i guess it's like you read everything we do we've got to the first step before we start worrying about the end result so this is the first step and hopefully we can make some other corrections as we move on and so does these proposals have been discussed at length in the committee i believe we've done everything possible to get out what i call a very good legislative package we have all of my council members again to consider this motion as amended and thank you for your understanding and all your hard work i do appreciate everyone's really the public as well as all of you members contribution to these inclusion so that each respectively mystic you're perceiving that county communications you have before you call any communication over sixteen dash two or three from the emergency management office or transmitting to counsel a notice of granville ward from the state of hawaii hawaii emergency management agency for the emergency management performance granting the amount of one hundred thousand dollars attorney transmitting to the council a notice of grant award from the state of hawaii highway safety division for the impaired driving program in the amount of sixteen thousand six hundred forty two dollars county communications sixteen five from the prosecuting attorney transmitting to the council a notice of grant award from the state of hawaii highway safety division for the traffic records program in the amount of fourteen thousand nine hundred fifty dollars county communication to chair the following county communications are recommended to the following committees as noted through a budget and finance committee county communication and are sixteen dash to eleven from the planning director transmitting to the council the following one  pertaining to impact fees for solid waste fire police and waste water improvements on maui county communication sixteen dash to one tool from the director of public works transmitting to the council a proposed bill improvement projects apartment of environmental management department of finance department of housing and human concerns department of management you partner parks and recreation department of police department of public works to your economic development energy county communication sixteen dash two one six from the economic development director transmitting to the council a proposed resolution in title authorizing an amendment of an extension of grant of a license of county ro property for the installation operation and maintenance of electric vehicle quick chargers and local battery units county communication number sixteen to one seven from council chair white transmitting to the council the matter relating to the transfer of equ from the new energy and industrial technology development organization and the deal to your land use committee county communication sixteen dash to win eight from the planning director transmitting to counsel the matter relating to an project districts out situated like a pool ordered his clerk optimistic chair proceeding with general communications the following general communication is being recommended to your planning committee general communication number sixteen dash nine from grant wh president and the properties inc submitting to the council and annual status report in accordance with condition seventeen ordinance number three three one to change in zoning in from district two are one residential district and p