committee meeting of may twentieth twenty sixteen please come to or back into order we were in recess sorry members as you know budget went a little bit longer first reading a budget so what i'm going to do  administration will spence he's in the audience right now and legislative attorney karl on a cot committee secretary probably martens and then from the hon a district office we have don lono when i district office we have denise fernandez and distribute office we have el al con members today's and we have mr goodman is joining us today's meeting is p c forty community plan update process we're just going to accept testimony today and we will leave testimony open and recess this meeting till tuesday morning at nine o'clock i think i've got five seven so far that said that they'll be here so thank you for  rearranging your schedules i appreciate it and i think as i think this is going to be a very important meeting before we move further in the community plan process so with that anybody who wants to testify in the chamber please sign up at the desk outside this chamber door if you're testifying for me most remote testimony site please sign up with the district office staff testimony will be limited to the item listed on the agenda today pursuant to the rules of the council each testifier will be allowed to testify for up to three minutes pride on the chair will also be allowing an additional minute to conclude testimony you will have a green light for three minutes and then yellow light for one minute and then it'll blink red i think we have to reset there's a second programmer there you go all right we're we're very concerned with the explanation that was given in your kind of communication sixteen dash a five with regard to the cause of delays in finalizing the not you community plan we believe that properly implemented the existing community plan update process encourages community involvement in the planning process and properly implemented the updates are certainly achievable every ten years and properly implemented the lanai community plan could have been updated in a reasonable timeframe the recent delays that occurred are entirely due to improper implementation of a good process and i would like to direct your attention to the last sentence on page one of communication sixteen dash eighty five that sentence says substantive content did not significantly change  for the land used as a nation's proposed for the new resort which were ultimately removed  in fact significant changes were proposed by the planning committee chair and fully supported by the planning director which would undermine much of the important work done by the community plan advisory committee and there are very of me and gave community ninety since these changes were introduced after the community plan advisory committee and the planning commission in maine there made the recommendations neither body was aware of the changes that were to come  that would essentially reverse the relationship between the community plan and the zoning and so after their deliberations are completed had they known that they may have made some different recommendations  and this as i recall was the real cause of the delay it wasn't the process check out she made it very clear many times you feel that the community plan committees and the planning commissions are only advisory and that the council can therefore disregard the wishes as if it desires while it's technically true this is a slap in the face to the many citizens who have spent significant portions of their lives working for a better future for maui county so in our opinion the community planning process is not broken and just needs to be followed with respect for the citizens of maui county and we urge t planning commission sorry the planning committee to go ahead and file this communication thank you thank you mr pres members and the question is the testifier seeing none thank you anybody on mo a thank you district offices keep in mind that we will be leaving members without objection we will leave public testimony open and thanks to those who are able to respond to come tuesday morning at nine o'clock i would like to recess this meeting and till that time in this chamber ok so this meeting is in recess